The Week that Was: Week 6

Week 6 in the UMAC saw Crown and Minnesota-Morris win their games in overtime, Scholastica win a sloppy one at Northwestern, and Greenville and Eureka win their games in “undertime”. You may wonder, “What is ‘undertime’?”. It is a new term I just coined for games that are decidedly over before the fourth quarter starts. With only four weeks remaining, the championship race is becoming tighter and as we’ve said all year, will likely come down to the last week. But why talk about the future when we can talk about the past? Read on my friends.

Say “Cheese!"
As we write our stories each week, we look through team’s rosters to look up info on players we mention in our posts. We see a lot of player pictures where they are smiling to make mom happy or trying to put on a mean mug to fool everyone into thinking they are tough. But we also find a few gems among the pictures and we would like to share a few of those with our readers. So here is a small taste:

 

Happiest player in the UMAC

Forgot his toupee





If it was real, we'd be impressed.

Okay, we're impressed.



The players are, from left to right, top to bottom: Joseph Voltmer (Westminster), Chase Tackett (Iowa Wesleyan), Thomas Welch (Martin Luther), and Frank Lesar (St. Scholastica)

Welcome to the Club
The Martin Luther Knights officially made their first extra point kick of the year, six weeks into the 2013 season. Please join me in congratulating Knights kicker Chester Reinemann for breaking the five week streak for the Knights. Chester made both of his attempts on Saturday, putting the Knights at 2/3 on extra points for the year. Despite their UMAC low 66.7% on extra point kick attempts, the Knights are not the only team with this percentage as Northwestern is also 66.7% on 18 attempts and Minnesota-Morris is close behind at 68% on 25 attempts. Don’t make me pull out another kicking instructional video…

Silly Social Media aka “Who Framed Mr. Olson”<br /> A week ago, we had a comment from “Grant Olson” on our Week 5 Power Rankings. After making a prediction he went on to say that someone else posing as “Grant Olson” framed him with a comment about an injury earlier this season. I have two things to say about this.

- First off, why would anyone in NCAA Division III UMAC football, create a fake injury report and attempt to frame another individual with it. Why not attempt to gain credibility by posting as, say, CSS head coach Greg Carlson, D3football.com’s West Region writer Josh Smith, or NFL analyst Adam Schefter. Some many questions, so few answers. We will have to put Ricky on this case to find the culprit. Whoever you are fake Grant Olson, justice is coming.

- Secondly, Mr. Olson, how can we be sure if this comment by you, was not actually another comment by the fake Mr. Olson. Or maybe you are the fake Mr. Olson, and the real one posts fake injury reports. Or maybe neither of you are Grant Olson. Or maybe both of you are… Okay, this is making my head hurt. New rule, from now on, everyone post under your own name.