The ninth week of the 2009 FLF season kicks off from The Vortex, where Jody's Colossal Waste of Time hosts the last-place Pimps. Records aside, both clubs come into this with some momentum, having each posed wins last week. Jody impressively handed Irwin its first loss on the season, and The Pimps ambushed the defending Super Bowl champion Bock Boys. At 2-6, the visitors know they can't afford to lose much more if they're to make a bid for the playoffs, and they've already played the C.W.O.T. tough this season, dropping a one-point decision to Jody in Week 1. Unfortunately for the silver-hats, they'll be without Adrian Peterson – the league's highest scoring RB – for this one. On the plus-side, however, Jody will be short Steven Jackson, who torched the Hellions for 11 last week.

victims of the bye week:
Pimps – RB Peterson, REC Cotchery
Jody – RB Jackson, RB Greene

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The Sims Stereco passed the Naughty Figs in the Eastern Division standings last week, and now the second-place Stereco are looking for a little revenge from the 56-17 beatdown the Figs tagged them with a month ago. Sims regained its swagger last week thanks to a 44-14 stomping of the hapless Brew Krew, and their 4-4 start is their best in three years. The Figs looked to have fixed their early season slump, winning three straight at one point, but have now lost two in a row to fall back under .500 for the year. The FIgs have to be feeling pretty good about this one, given they've defeated the Stereco in five straight meetings. They'll just need to have a better offensive showing that last week, when they had the league's worst (Sims, coincidentally, had the week's best).

victims of the bye week:
Sims – QB Sanchez, REC Harvin, DEF N.Y. Jets
Figs – RB Lynch, REC Evans

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This year's installment of the Beer Bowl has certainly lost some of its edge given the Anderson Brewmeisters' and Thomas' Bock Boys' combined record of 5-9-2. The last time these two met, it was for a berth in Super Bowl XII, and they were the Nos. 2 (Thomas) and 3 (Anderson) postseason seeds. Eight weeks into this season, the Bock Boys and Brewmeisters currently sit at the Nos. 7 and 9 seeds, respectively, both on the outside of the playoff picture. Father Time seems to have finally caught up with the Brew Krew, whose aging roster (Peyton Manning aside) seems to have lost its big-play potential. The Bock Boys beat the first-place in the East and then lost to the last-place team in successive weeks. Go figure. This is their last interdivisional match of the season, and a win here would give them a respectable 3-2 mark.

victims of the bye week:
Anderson – RB Jackson, K Longwell
Thomas – RB Lewis, RB Washington, REC Rice

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The two hottest clubs in the league meet up at En Fuego Field where the 4-3-1 Piana Raze host the 3-5 Abstract Machines. Both clubs are riding two-game winning streaks and they are only separated by a single game in the win column. As with last season, the Machines will need a strong finish to make the playoff field. They sat at 3-5 after 8 weeks last year before winning four of its last five, and they did all of that without Tom Brady. Well, Brady's back following his bye, and he hopes to lead his club to a season split with the Raze. Matt Schaub has finally earned the outright job as the Raze's starting QB, and Maurice Jones-Drew is living up to his potential in the ground game. Piana won only four games total last year, so the Raze will be well-motivated as they try for No. 5 on the year.

victims of the bye week:
Machines – QB Favre, RB Jones
PIana – none

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The Game of The Week comes to us from the Hellhole, where the Irwin Hellions look to shake off last week's loss to Jody and continue their dominance of the Western Division by inviting the second-place Wicked Oil Profiteer$ over to play. P.W.O.P. suffered a defeat last week as well, keeping them two games back. Should they lose this one, they'll be three back and a tiebreak, meaning for all intensive purposes their shot at the division title would be dead in the water. Donovan McNabb has been The Man for the Hellions of late, and it will be interesting to see who lines up against him. Pirk has recently gone with Philip Rivers at QB, but he'll be up against his own Giants defense. Could we see a Romo-McNabb dual play out in real-time on Sunday Night? I'd expect lots of points, either way.

victims of the bye week:
P.W.O.P. – DEF Minnesota
Irwin – none

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