Shabam Shadiq Complete Historic Season with first AFFL Championship. Become 7th Franchise to win title
Raffi Lalazarian
After the greatest run by an AFFL fantasy football team ever, Shabam Shadiq owners Dre and Avo defeated Prime time in the AFFL finals and became the 2019 AFFL Champions. It is their first ever AFFL title, and perhaps the start of something bigger.
The infamous franchise of Shadiq has managed to brand and rebrand itself many times. From the early years of Click Clack, to Reverse the Curse, Lucky Charms and Donkey Punchers, the franchise attempted to distance itself from its win-less history. For the past 13 seasons, Shabam had an 0-9 record in the playoffs and had never won a playoff game. The “bad luck” began in the 2009 season, when they missed a first round bye due to division record tie-breaking rules, and subsequently lost in the first round. They would go on to lose in the first round of the playoffs for the next 9 seasons.
“It was as frustrating,” said Avo Tuna. “We were like an impotent man at an orgy, we just couldn’t get up for the big games.”
But that all changed this season, when Avo Tuna worked the draft to perfection. Already armed with Nick Chubb and Juju Smith-Schuster as keepers, Tuna and Dre nabbed Lamar Jackson, Christian McCaffery, and Amari Cooper, along with Cooper Kupp and Devonte Freeman. The result: an all-time best record of 12-1, a historic league high in total points for a season at 1846.70 , as well the longest winning streak (12) for a team in league history.
“Winning the league is great, but its even sweeter when you do it against Darth Vadar, aka PrimeTime,” said Dre, while smoking on a Shabam stogie. “Payback is a bitch.”
Prime Time managed to be the only team to defeat Shabam in the regular season, ruining their perfect season. For Ara, reaching the finals has been achieved before, but he now becomes the team that just can’t win the big game.
“What do you want me to do?” said Ara in response, “ I tried to play a good game but he had players I didn’t have and thats why he won.”
Translation: Shabam was better.
The scary part is that Shabam may not be done. Lamar Jackson will be kept, with perhaps Chubb, rendering a strong core of players to build off in 2020.
It is hard to imagine that the team that hadn’t won a first round playoff game in 10 years, and still hasn’t technically, could be the AFFL’s next dynasty .
We don’t think they’ll need to rebrand this year, but I wouldn’t rule that out either.
Enjoy the smack that Shabam brought to Ara below. Congrats the ‘Diq!