(LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida.)
What a fitting way to end the
2011 season with an overtime win in the All-Star
Game! The Pacific Conference came into this game losing four of the
last five
All-Star Games until yesterday. Although scoring was low all throughout
the game, it was scored when it needed to. Normally, when compared to
the playoff races during the home stretch of the regular season, the
playoffs themselves, and the Go for the Gold game, the All-Star game
seems almost anticlimactic. And usually it is. But not so this year.
2011 Hall of Fame Inductee SpongeBob
SquarePants got the Pacific Conference going by throwing two touchdown
passes to take a 14-0 lead midway through the second quarter. Then
Lindsay of
the Atlantic Conference All-Stars picked off a pass and ran it back
thirty-five
yards for a pick six to cut the deficit in half. The Pacific Conference
took a
17-7 halftime lead into the locker room.
The Atlantic Conference came back with
a 92 yard run by Daffy Duck to pull
within three. After another Pacific Conference field goal, Jem threw
her only
touchdown pass to Minnie Mouse to take a one point lead into the fourth
quarter.
The things got real exciting, after
Adora put up two Atlantic Conference field
goals, SpongeBob threw his third touchdown pass to Stimpy to tie the
game and
send it into overtime. In overtime, both teams struggled to get into
the endzone
or field goal range to win until Rowlf botted a 36 yard field goal with
1:08
left to win it 30-27.
Jem had little to say about her
performance. "Ewww, I can't seem to even be able to buy a win!" the
woozy 80's pop star exclaimed, tears in her eyes. When Rowlf put up the
game winning field goal, she fainted and required medical attention to
revive her. As a precaution, she was taken to a nearby medical facility
where doctors said her fainting spell was caused by frustration and
exhaustion, and was promptly released.
SpongeBob SquarePants, on the other
hand, was jubilant about the victory and his induction into the Hall.
"I'd like to thank everyone in Bikini Bottom, the folks at the Krusty
Krab, the people at Nickelodeon, Stephen Hillenberg, my creator, and
last but not least, all the loyal fans out there," he said. "All of you
put me here, and for that, I am forever grateful. As for today's game,
we didn't quit when the Atlantic (Conference) came back and took the
lead. No, sir, we simply didn't quit when we fell behind. It made us
more determined than ever to win the game one way or another, and it
worked as you can plainly see. But ever since joining this League, I can't remember
a game being so physically draining."
The elapsed time of 73:52 is the
second longest game in USCFL history and the
actual time of 3 hours and 42 minutes is the longest webcast we've ever
done.
The season may be over, but we will have your fantasy football fix
as we will play four exhibition games, each one pitting one of our new
expansion teams against its closest counterpart during the fall. The
first of these exhibitions will be on Friday night, September 23 as
Hanna-Barbera South travels to Pittsburgh to take on upstart
Hanna-Barbera North in the "Top Cat Bowl" to help celebrate Top Cat's
50th anniversary. The new season will begin April 6, 2012 when the Road
to
Canada gets underway and we hope you'll join us!
2011 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
(Podcast of Induction Show available
here)
CHARACTER INDUCTEES
1. SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS (NICKELODEON
ALL-STARS)
2. BUZZ LIGHTYEAR (DISNEY-EAST
ALL-STARS)
3. ARIEL (DISNEY-EAST ALL-STARS)
4. WAKKO, YAKKO, & DOT (WARNER
BROS.
ALL-STARS)
5. PEEKABLUE (MASTERS OF POWER)
VOICE INDUCTEES
1.
CHRIS LATTA (THE TRANSFORMERS, 80's ALL-STARS)
2. MINDY COHN (HANNA-BARBERA ALL-STARS)
3. JOHN DiMAGGIO (FOX
ALL-STARS, DISNEY-EAST ALL-STARS)
4. DAN CASTELLANETTA (THE SIMPSONS)
5. SUSAN BLU (VARIOUS PRODUCTION
COMPANIES)
ANIMATOR OR CREATOR INDUCTEES
1. STEPHEN HILLENBERG (NICKELODEON ALL-STARS)
2. WINSOR McCAY (SILENT FILM ERA)
3. CARL W. STALLING (WARNER BROS. ALL-STARS)
4. HOYT CURTIN (HANNA-BARBERA
ALL-STARS)
5. CHARLES A. NICHOLS (DISNEY EAST
& WEST ALL-STARS, HANNA-BARBERA ALL-STARS, 80's ALL-STARS)*