All Pro Football 2K8

[Othello Harrington]

Wee, next season when I'm more settled after handling some estate issues I'll def play in the college game.

[jyoung]

NSL IV is underway, with the Nashville Gladiators out to a blistering 7-1 start, and their only misstep coming at the hands of a blocked extra point in a 13-14 loss.

Our NFL "franchise mode" league is also taking signups for season III:

NFL Progression Season III

Teams Eligible to return:
Juic3d 3 - New England Patriots
Valdarez - Jacksonville Jaguars
Sabor51 - Green Bay Packers
Warnizzle - St Louis Rams
NYKIA31 - New York Jets
Hoser117 - Denver Broncos

Teams CONFIRMED for Season 3:
FLAxWLESS - Oakland Raiders
Bao Wao - Arizona Cardinals
soonersam - Minnesota Vikings
Dtrain53 - San Diego Chargers
turtl83 - Chicago Bears
Twosilk - Tampa Bay Bucs
Birdman1702 - San Francisco 49ers
Weeman - Tennessee Titans

Teams currently ineligible (have until Tuesday to play 12 games):

Turboware - Pittsburgh Steelers (10 games)
Thrity3 Degrees - Dallas Law (7 games)
NFLHITMAN - Kansas City (11 games)
A quick Assassin - Cleveland Browns (9 games)

Teams dropping out:

Ben Richardson - Philadelphia Eagles
Will I Am 504 - New Orleans Saints

If you are a new owner.... please leave your gamertag and feedback and ranking.

Teams Open:
Philadelphia Eagles (as is + progression/regression)
New Orleans Saints (as is + progression/regression)
Washington Redskins
New York Giants
Buffalo Bills
Miami Dolphins
Seattle Seahawks
Detroit Lions
Baltimore Ravens
Cincinnati Bengals
Atlanta Falcons
Houston Texans
Carolina Panthers

Edit: one more league to mention!

We are trying to get more people involved in season II of a high school league that recreates people's high school team.

[jyoung]

Also, I updated the uniforms for my Titans and Vanderbilt teams.

<3 this game's team editor.

You can get college codes here.

And NFL codes here.

[jyoung]

I was talking about this with Six and thought I'd share it for anyone else still playing this game:

1. Select the team whose playbook you want to copy and open it.

2. Make a change to it (either add a play or take a play out)

3. Now use the right thumb stick to navigate through the sidebar menus and select the team's playbook that you want to copy the current playbook to.

4. A screen will pop up asking you if you want to quit without saving; choose "no."

5. After choosing "no," press start to save.

6. The contents of the playbook you are looking at on-screen should now be copied to the playbook you tried open but said "no" to.

[jyoung]

Since the new EA football games started surfacing, we've had a rash of owners retiring from All Pro Football, leaving a couple of teams on the search for replacement owners.

We have ownership opportunities for two teams who have clean slates with 0-0 records heading into week three of a four week, sixteen game season:

New York Jets - (NEED OWNER)
WR - Jerricho Cotchery (Leadership, Soft Hands, Tough in the Middle, Acrobatic Catches, Branching Tackles)
ILB -David Harris (Run Coverage, Run Reader, Wrap Up Tackler, Ball Strip, Pass Rush)
HB - Thomas Jones (Stamina, Quick Feet)
WR - Laveranues Coles (Breakaway Burst, Tough in the Middle)
SS - Kerry Rhodes (Ball Hawk, Wrap Up Tackler)
QB - Chad Pennington (Pocket Presence)
K - Mike Nugent (Kick Power)
DT - Kris Jenkins (Strength)
OLB - Calvin Pace (Pass Rush)
CB - Darelle Revis (Coverage)
CB - Justin Miller (Quick Feet)


Tampa Bay Buccaneers - <need owner>
CB - Ronde Barber (Wrap Up Tackler, Coverage Bonus, Run Coverage)
OLB - Derick Brooks (Closing Speed, Run Coverage, Leadership)
Jermaine Phillips (Ball Hawk, Run Coverage)
Joey Galloway (Speed Burner, Sot Hands)
Gaines Adams (Pass Rush, Rip)
HB - Ernest Graham (Strength Bonus)
OLB - Cato June (Run Coverage)
ILB - Barret Ruud (Closing Speed)
WR - Ike Hilliard (Soft Hands)
CB - Aquib Talib (Coverage Bonus)
TE - Alex Smith (Quick Feet)

If anybody's interested, you can reply here.

On the positive side, our college football league (CFL) has expanded to 20 teams for its fourth season and is about to get underway!

[Geo]

OLB - Cato June (Run Coverage)

LOL, no no no.

[Joust Williams]

TB
Gold QB-Brett Favre (lucky shovel plays)

[jyoung]

NFLP Super Bowl II

Titans -- 28
Patriots -- 24

Box Score

Vince Young shook his head, peeled the turf off his helmet, and looked up at the scoreboard; the red dots glared: 4th and 24, ball on TEN 21.

Three out of the last four plays, Patriots OLB Mike Vrabel had beaten the Titans' stud left tackle, Michael Roos, broken through additional double and triple teams from the left guard Eugene Amano and halfback LenDale White, then planted himself on top of their quarterback.



For a Titans' offense that hadn't put a single point on the board since 3:02 in the second quarter, this was their last chance, not just for the day, but for the 2008 NFLP season.

The play call crackled inside Vince Young’s helmet: empty gun, all streaks. As the ball snapped back from center Kevin Mawae’s hands, Vince Young surveyed the left side of his line: for once, no Mike Vrabel in sight. Young rolled left, planted, and was about to heave it up into a single-covered Alge Crumpler, when he noticed, out of the corner of his eye, an uncovered Bo Scaife, whom he had re-routed into a slant across the right side of the field prior to the snap. 31 yards later, the Titans were back in business. Four plays later, the Titans regained the very lead that they had relinquished--for the first time all game--only a minute ago, as Michael Roos and LenDale White atoned for their blocking blunders, executing a picture-perfect screen pass to put the Titans on top 28-24.

But against a deadly Patriots passing attack, no lead is ever safe. With the Patriots having 0:40 on the clock, 70 yards to go, and two timeouts remaining, the Titans’ defense knew it was up to them to win the game; the clock simply wasn’t going to win the game for them. And when the Patriots conjured up some of that same fourth down magic en route to the Nashville 44 yard-line, completing a 4th and 10 pass to Melvin Davidson for 25 yards, and stopping the clock with 0:27 seconds remaining, the defense knew that they needed to step-up and shut the door now if they didn’t want to risk getting hit by the lightening bolt know as Brady to Moss. Star defensive end Kyle Vandenbosch didn’t simply close the door, he slammed it shut, bursting through double, then triple teams, sacking Brady on what would be the game’s final two plays, for losses of 8 and 12 yards.



With the Titans’ defensive line breaking off a destructive 9 sacks on the day, it’s no surprise to see one of football’s oldest clichés holding true in the NFLP Super Bowl II: defense wins championships.