"Twenty-one
years is a lifetime for a frog but we finally made it back and it feels
good!" Kermit the Frog
USCFL GAMEDAY
JIM HENSON ALL-STARS WIN PACIFIC
CONFERENCE TITLE!
JIM HENSON'S FIRST CONFERENCE
CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE IN 21 YEARS!
(SALT LAKE CITY, Utah) The TV Ad All-Stars have literally
annihilated the competition and were heavy favorites to win their first
ever Pacific Conference championship. The Jim Henson All-Stars have
suffered more than twenty years of disappointment. Watching other teams
win the trophy named for their late creator. Now the Jim Henson
Memorial Trophy is back in Denver where it belongs. (The Jim Henson
Memorial Trophy is the top prize in The Pacific Conference as The
Charles Schulz Memorial Trophy is the top prize in The Atlantic
Conference.) And now Jim Henson has a chance to win their first Go For
The Gold Game since 1983 when they defeated Woody Woodpecker (later
known as The Walter Lantz All-Stars) in Go For The Gold VII the last
championship game before "The Big Expansion of 1983" when the two
conferences were created and divisions and cities were assigned to
teams.
Now on August 15th, The Jim Henson All-Stars the last of the original
seven teams still playing in the league independently will face off
with The Disney All-Stars one of two teams left from the huge 1983
expansion for The Walt Disney Memorial Trophy.
Yesterday's game was all Jim Henson from start to finish and they
showed what they are really made of early in the game when they took a
huge 27-7 lead in the first quarter courtesy of Kermit The Frog as he
threw three touchdown passes. Two to Gonzo and one to Fozzie Bear. The
TV Ad All-Stars did get on the board with 47 seconds left in the
quarter on a six yard run by Lucky the Leprechaun.
Although the TV Ad All-Stars outscored Jim Henson in the second
quarter, they still trailed at halftime 37-27. Tony The Tiger threw two
touchdown passes but ten points would be the closest they would get to
Jim Henson all afternoon. The TV Ad All-Stars did their best to come
back but their efforts weren't good enough. Early in the third quarter,
Jim Henson running back Miss Piggy proved why she's top pig when it
comes to running with the football. For three straight seasons, Miss
Piggy has led The Pacific Conference or the league in rushing. She ran
the ball in from seventy-seven yards out to add to the lead. The TV Ad
All-Stars did manage to pull within ten again and after both teams put
a field goal up on the board, Jim Henson led 47-37 after three quarters
of play.
Kermit The Frog threw his third touchdown pass to Gonzo along with a
Rowlf field goal that provided the 57-44 win for their fourth Pacific
Conference championship and will now play in their sixth Go For The
Gold Game. Be with us as Jim Henson and Disney will face off in Go For
The Gold XLVI from Boston on August 15th. The 2009 season comes down to
this game. Who will win? Join us August 15th and we'll find out
together!
GAME STATS
JIM HENSON
ALL-STARS
|
GAME STATS |
TV
AD ALL-STARS
|
| 57 |
SCORE
|
44 |
| 19 |
FIRST DOWNS |
26 |
| 332 |
RUSHING YARDS |
130 |
| 283 |
PASSING YARDS |
495 |
| 248 |
SP TEAM YARDS |
283 |
| 863 |
TOTAL YARDS |
907 |
| 7 |
INTERCEPTIONS |
12 |
| 13/31 (41%) |
3RD DOWN CONV |
7/21 (33%) |
| 0/0 (0%) |
4TH DOWN CONV |
1/3 (33%) |
| 4/55 |
PENALTIES/YARDS |
2/20 |
| 32:16 |
TIME OF POSS |
27:44 |
OFFENSE
| PASSING |
C/A |
YDS |
TD |
INT |
AVG |
C% |
SACKS |
LONG |
RATING |
| KERMIT
THE FROG |
23/44 |
295 |
4 |
3 |
6.7 |
52 |
3 |
70 |
75.4 |
| TONY THE TIGER |
33/70 |
469 |
3 |
12 |
6.7 |
47 |
1 |
71 |
44.0 |
| EXXON
TIGER |
5/5 |
31 |
0 |
0 |
6.2 |
100 |
0 |
11 |
92.5 |
| RUSHING |
ATT |
YDS |
TD |
AVG |
FUM |
LONG |
| MISS PIGGY |
44 |
237 |
1 |
5.3 |
3 |
77 |
| CRAZY HARRY |
8 |
15 |
0 |
1.8 |
0 |
5 |
| LUCKY LEPRECHAUN |
37 |
132 |
2 |
3.5 |
0 |
17 |
| SUGAR BEAR |
1 |
3 |
0 |
3.0 |
0 |
3 |
| RECEIVING |
REC |
YDS |
TD |
AVG |
YAC |
DROPS |
LONG |
| FOZZIE BEAR |
4 |
24 |
1 |
6.0 |
4 |
0 |
19 |
| GONZO |
7 |
179 |
3 |
25.5 |
86 |
1 |
70 |
| BIG
BIRD |
6 |
44 |
0 |
7.3 |
8 |
2 |
15 |
| TRIX RABBIT |
9 |
119 |
0 |
13.2 |
16 |
0 |
33 |
| TOUCAN SAM |
13 |
207 |
1 |
15.9 |
75 |
2 |
71 |
| COUNT CHOCULA |
2 |
16 |
1 |
8.0 |
6 |
0 |
10 |
DEFENSE
JIM HENSON ALL-STARS
NAME
|
TACKLES |
SACKS |
INT |
DEF TD |
| COOKIE MONSTER |
10 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| GROVER |
8 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| ELMO |
8 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| TELLY MONSTER |
7 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| BERT |
7 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
| OSCAR THE GROUCH |
6 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| ERNIE |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| ZOE |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| SWEDISH CHEF |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| SWEETUMS |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| SAM THE EAGLE |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
TV AD ALL-STARS
NAME
|
TACKLES |
SACKS |
INT |
DEF TD |
| SMOKEY BEAR |
24 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| WOODSY OWL |
8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| PILLSBURY DOUGHBOY |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| RED M&M |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| THE NOID |
6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| CHESTER CHEETAH |
6 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| CHEF BOYARDEE |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| ERIN ESURANCE |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| BUDDY LEE |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| MR. CLEAN |
4 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
| GEICO GECKO |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
SPECIAL TEAMS
| KICKING |
FGM/FGA |
XPM/XPA |
POINTS |
LONG |
| ROWLF |
5/6 |
6/6 |
21 |
54 |
| CAP'N CRUNCH |
3/3 |
5/5 |
14 |
47 |
| PUNTING |
NP |
YDS |
AVG |
NY |
NYA |
IN20 |
TB |
LONG |
| ANIMAL |
9 |
383 |
42.5 |
318 |
35.3 |
3 |
3 |
56 |
| FRANKEN BERRY |
8 |
357 |
44.6 |
315 |
39.3 |
2 |
1 |
64 |
| KICK
RETURNS |
KR |
YDS |
TD |
AVG |
LONG |
| BERT |
9 |
228 |
0 |
25.3 |
44 |
| ERIN ESURANCE |
12 |
279 |
0 |
23.2 |
35 |
| PUNT
RETURNS |
PR |
YDS |
TD |
AVG |
LONG |
| BERT |
3 |
20 |
0 |
6.6 |
10 |
| ERIN ESURANCE |
2 |
4 |
0 |
2.0 |
2 |
| SCORE
BY QUARTER |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
TOTAL |
JIM HENSON ALL-STARS
|
27 |
10 |
10 |
10 |
57 |
TV AD ALL-STARS
|
7 |
20 |
10 |
7 |
44 |
SCORING SUMMARY
FIRST QUARTER
JHAS - 45 YD FG ROWLF 10:00 REMAINING
JHAS 3 - TVAAS 0
JHAS - 48 YD FG ROWLF 7:32 REMAINING
JHAS 6 - TVAAS 0
JHAS - 2 YD PASS FROM KERMIT THE FROG TO FOZZIE BEAR (ROWLF KICK) 3:27
REMAINING
JHAS 13 - TVAAS 0
JHAS - 70 YD PASS FROM KERMIT THE FROG TO GONZO (ROWLF KICK) 2:27
REMAINING
JHAS 20 - TVAAS 0
TVAAS - 6 YD RUN BY LUCKY LEPRECHAUN (CAP'N CRUNCH KICK) 0:47 REMAINING
JHAS 20 - TVAAS 7
JHAS - 67 YD PASS FROM KERMIT THE FROG TO GONZO (ROWLF KICK) 0:01
REMAINING
JHAS 27 - TVAAS 7
SECOND QUARTER
TVAAS - 71 YD PASS FROM TONY THE TIGER TO TOUCAN SAM (CAP'N CRUNCH
KICK) 14:35 REMAINING
JHAS 27 - TVAAS 14
TVAAS - 28 YD FG CAP'N CRUNCH 7:12 REMAINING
JHAS 27 - TVAAS 17
JHAS - 7 YD RUN BY BIFF (ROWLF KICK) 2:04 REMAINING
JHAS 34 - TVAAS 17
JHAS - 42 YD FG ROWLF 1:15 REMAINING
JHAS 37 - TVAAS 17
TVAAS - 6 YD PASS FROM TONY THE TIGER TO SNAP (CAP'N CRUNCH KICK) 0:31
REMAINING
JHAS 37 - TVAAS 24
TVAAS - 31 YD FG CAP'N CRUNCH 0:05 REMAINING
JHAS 37 - TVAAS 27 (HALFTIME SCORE)
THIRD QUARTER
JHAS - 77 YD RUN BY MISS PIGGY (ROWLF KICK) 12:57 REMAINING
JHAS 44 - TVAAS 27
TVAAS - 6 YD PASS FROM TONY THE TIGER TO COUNT CHOCULA (CAP'N CRUNCH
KICK) 7:12 REMAINING
JHAS 44 - TVAAS 34
JHAS - 54 YD FG ROWLF 5:26 REMAINING
JHAS 47 - TVAAS 34
TVAAS - 47 YD FG CAP'N CRUNCH 2:38 REMAINING
JHAS 47 - TVAAS 37
FOURTH QUARTER
JHAS - 9 YD PASS FROM KERMIT THE FROG TO GONZO (ROWLF KICK) 14:19
REMAINING
JHAS 54 - TVAAS 37
TVAAS - 17 YD RUN BY LUCKY LEPRECHAUN (CAP'N CRUNCH KICK) 10:16
REMAINING
JHAS 54 - TVAAS 44
JHAS - 25 YD FG ROWLF 1:51 REMAINING
JHAS 57 - TVAAS 44 (FINAL SCORE)
AVIS "WE TRY HARDER" PLAYER OF THE GAME
GONZO WR JIM HENSON ALL-STARS
7 RECEPTIONS, 179 YARDS, 3 TOUCHDOWNS
ATTENDANCE - 90,750 (COMPLETE SELLOUT)
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Conference Championship Gameday Report
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