"Inside the USFL" Show....Week 2

Welcome everyone to the week 2 edition of "Inside the USFL". I am your host, Professor Pigskin, and we have a great show lined up for you this week. We'll have highlights from all this weekends games, my lock of the week pick for the upcoming games, a special section I like to call "Professor Pigskin's List of Da Mans" in which I tell you who "Da Man" is that leads the league in yards and scoring, and finally, we're supposed to take a call from the Commissioner. Let's kick things off with the highlights....


Thursday night Boston visited Pittsburgh, and came away with a 27-21 victory. Here we see Drew Bennett of the Breakers elude a Mauler defender on the way to a 61 yard touchdown with 6 seconds remaining in the first half. Pittsburgh rallied late with 2 TD's in the 4th, but couldn't make it all the way back.


On Sunday in Jacksonville, the Bulls and Stallions battled closely until a wild play broke it open for the Bulls. Birmingham QB Matthew Stafford attempted a pitchout to RB Shaun Alexander that went WAY behind Alexander. Stafford was the closest Stallion to the ball after the pitch, and he tried to run to fall on the loose ball, but as you can see above, the referee prevented the rookie from getting there. Bulls linebacker Adrian Wright scooped it up and went in untouched for the score, and the Stallions never recovered. Final Score, JAX 34-BIRM 17.

In the other early Sunday Game, Arizona traveled to Denver for a barnburner. After the Gold's Jay Cutler threw a pick on his first pass attempt, both teams got it rolling to the tune of a 27 point first quarter. Wrangler RB J.J. Arrington (above) racked up 185 yards and 3 TD's on the way to a 39-37 victory for Arizona.


In the Sunday afternoon game, Michigan held on to defeat San Antonio on this toe-tapper by Torry Holt (above) in the final minute. Holt had 117 yards and 2 TD's in his teams 30-24 victory.


In rainy Washington on Sunday night, the Federals and Generals took the game into overtime, and still couldn't get it settled. Final score 34-34. Above, the Generals' Larry Johnson goes airborne for the score.


And finally, in the Monday night contest, Oakland took control early and never looked back, 33-21. Chicago's Terrell Owens had a big night in the loss, tallying 157 yards and a TD.


Okey-doke..... here's my list of "Da Mans". Arizona QB Sam Bradford leads all passers with 623 yards. Arizona also has the leading rusher in J.J. Arrington who has 224 yards. The leader at wide reciever is Drew Bennett of Boston with 322 yards. The leading scorer is San Antonio's Rhett Bomar, who has 7 passing TD's on the season.

Next weeks games are as follows:
EAST
(0-1-1) NJ@BIR (0-2)
(0-1-1) WAS@BOS (2-0)
(2-0) JAX@PIT (1-1)

WEST
(1-1) MICH@ARI (2-0)
(1-1) SA@CHI (0-2)
(1-1)DEN@OAK (1-1)

That brings us to my lock of the week. My choice for the sure fire winner of a ballgame this next weekend is.....

San Antonio..... over Chicago. In honor of my choice, i have dressed up as the Gunslinger from the logo. Quite a nice outfit really..... very slimming; plus the hat is cool, and i already have the moustache.

Well, apparently the Commissioner is too busy to talk with me this week.... something about having a league to run. I'll let it slide this week, but mark my words..... talk we shall. Until next week, this has been Professor Pigskin for "Inside the USFL".