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    2015 Draft Order Coming Together

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    Happy new year, brothers. Now that the season is over, we're not wasting time determining the 2015 draft order. The champion of each conference gets first choice of draft position. Then the second-place team, third-place team, etc. Here is where we stand on the draft order just before the end of 2014:

    AFC

    NFC

    1. Lynn
    2. Musselman
    3. Nye
    4. Green
    5. Neely
    6. Hillier
    7. Venable
    8. Zerger
    9. Schuster
    10. Reed
    11. Brosh
    12. Roe
    13. Fitzgerald
    14. Peacock
    1. Trovillo
    2. Finch
    3. Henderson
    4. Rogers
    5. Morgan
    6. Cobb
    7. Baldwin
    8. Pyle
    9. Leal
    10. Schmidt
    11. Bruesch
    12. Jessen
    13. Cliburn
    14. Duffy
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    Welcome Home, Bravo Battery

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    Congratulations to the men of B Btry 1-158 FIRES for making it home safely from Afghanistan. Somewhere in this video, Michael Rogers and Lance Zerger are sitting in the bleachers wondering what their AMMODOGS and Redlegs could have done differently this season.
    Post by DoMaD (Directorate of Mobilization and Deployment).
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    'Dirty Hippies' Win Liberty Bowl, OIL Championship

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    Philip Rivers

    Antonio Brown
    Anquan Boldin
    Doug Baldwin

    Chris Johnson
    Matt Asiata

    Antonio Gates

    Steve Smith, Sr.
    Brandon LaFell

    Nick Novak
    Denver
           8.75  QB   16.25     

     36.00  WR   36.50
     16.10  WR   16.40
       8.10  WR     8.10

        2.70  RB   16.00 
     14.35  RB   19.40

       10.70   TE     0.0     

    17.00 W/T 13.95
    12.30 W/R 15.85

      1.00    K      8.00
     17.00  DEF  -1.00 
     144.00 Total 149.45
    Teddy Bridgewater

    Odell Beckham, Jr.
    Roddy White
    Doug Baldwin

    Le'Veon Bell
    Giovani Bernard

    Marcedes Lewis*

    Eddie Royal
    Jarvis Landry

    Justin Tucker
    Miami
    Christopher Trovillo is the 2014 OIL overall champion, beating out 27 other managers. His Dirty Hippies defeated Jimmy Venable's War Pony for the right to keep the Tenequer Memorial Trophy for a year.
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    2014 Liberty Bowl: 'War Pony' vs. 'Dirty Hippies'

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    Lineups

    War Pony

        Dirty Hippies

    Philip Rivers

    Antonio Brown
    Anquan Boldin
    Doug Baldwin

    Chris Johnson
    Matt Asiata

    Antonio Gates

    Steve Smith, Sr.
    Brandon LaFell

    Nick Novak
    Denver
              8.75  QB   16.25       

     36.00  WR   36.50
     16.10  WR   16.40
       8.10  WR     8.10

        2.70  RB   16.00 
     14.35  RB   19.40

       10.70   TE     0.0     

    17.00 W/T 13.95
    12.30 W/R 15.85

      1.00    K      8.00
     17.00  DEF  -1.00 
     144.00 Total 149.45
    Teddy Bridgewater

    Odell Beckham, Jr.
    Roddy White
    Doug Baldwin

    Le'Veon Bell
    Giovani Bernard

    Marcedes Lewis*

    Eddie Royal
    Jarvis Landry

    Justin Tucker
    Miami
          *Rob Gronkowski was inactive
    Welcome to the first Liberty Bowl. It pits the champions of the OklahomIraqis League's AFC (Jimmy Venable's War Pony) against the champions of the NFC (Christopher Trovillo's Dirty Hippies). The champion receives the Tenequer Memorial Trophy. 
    Because the Dirty Hippies scored more points in the regular season (and in their championship game), they will be the home team and wear their home, tie-dyed jerseys. War Pony will wear his white-on-white away uniforms for the first time during the 2014 playoffs (as he was the higher seed in every previous matchup). The managers of these two teams have until Saturday at 2000 CST to email their Liberty Bowl lineup to Cliburn. Each manager may tweak their lineup via email or text any time before 1200 CST Sunday. 

    Here is how each team got here, beginning with the AFC champions:

    Thunder Bowl

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    OIL Bowl

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    Good luck to both teams. It's been an amazing season. Each team has already won their respective conference's traveling trophy (the Killman and the Harrington) and a championship jersey to keep forever. 
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    'Dirty Hippies' Win 2014 OIL Bowl

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    After eight long years, the Dirty Hippies have finally won an OIL Bowl championship. Hippies manager Christopher Trovillo defeated Justin Finch's Hard Targets to win the Harrington Trophy for the first time. In doing so, he became eligible for a championship jersey. He has chosen to commemorate the 2014 title with his tie-dyed home jersey in number 14. His full uniforms:
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    Here is the proof of his championship jersey:
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    It was a close matchup that came down to Monday Night Football. No one was surprised as these two teams were the top contenders all season. Yahoo! projected the Hard Targets to finish 5-8 and the Dirty Hippies to finish 4-9, but that was before the games began. Once the season started, it was clear these two were elite teams that would go far in the playoffs.

    Trovillo left Sunday Night Football with a lead of .2 points with Giovani Bernard to play on Monday Night Football. With such a slim lead, he could not afford to bench Bernard to ensure he received no negative points from the Bengals RB. Two-tenths of a point is well within the stat-correction range. Odell Beckham, Jr. was a real difference-maker for the Hippies, scoring 34.8 points after putting up 43.8 points last week. But, ultimately, Giovani Bernard was the nail in the coffin, scoring 19.1 points on MNF. Meanwhile, Finch was let down by Greg Olsen, Jeremy Maclin, Josh Gordon, and Jamaal Charles.
    Plus, Finch started the Buffalo defense expecting a big day. The Bills had shut down Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers in consecutive weeks and were facing the hapless Raiders in week 16. But anything can happen in the NFL. The Raiders beat the Bills with Buffalo's defense only scoring a single point for the Hard Targets. After a dominant season, it was surprising to see the Targets lose. But, if they were going to lose, we knew it would be against Trovillo.
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    For those who don't know Trovillo, he is the only member of the OIL who was not in the 158. He was an active-duty field artillery soldier at Fort Sill when Cliburn met him in 2007. They became fast friends, and Trovillo was invited into the OIL the first season it was run state-side. He's been a member ever since and was instrumental in both the podcast we produced for a year and the development of this website. 

    He's been a valuable addition to the league. He participates and talks trash as much as anyone in the OIL, even though Cliburn is the only guy he truly knows outside of the league. And he doesn't complain nearly as much as the rest of the perennial whiners in the league. That is always endearing to a commissioner.
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    Dirty Hippies draft

    So, congratulations to Trovillo and the Dirty Hippies. They had a good draft (even though Yahoo! graded it a 'C') and made smart waiver wire additions (most notably picking up Odell Beckham, Jr. off of waivers). Beckham finished the season as the second-highest scoring WR on a per-game basis. And Trovillo negotiated favorable trades. In one sequence of trades, he traded away Calvin Johnson (who ended up finishing as WR19) and Kyle Rudolph (TE37) for Jarvis Landry (WR17) and Rob Gronkowski (TE1). Bravo, Trovillo. Bravo. He also turned Devin Hester into Doug Baldwin, who was the 26th-best WR over the last four weeks of the season. 

    The Hippies will be rewarded by having their name engraved on the Harrington and a jersey to keep forever. 
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