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Chumps
Are Champs

An overtime title game caps o the
Yiddish Football League season.

LONNY GOLDSMITH Staff Writer

BILL HANSEN Photographer

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n a cold, blustery
Sunday, on the frozen
tundra of Birmingham
Groves High School, a
football game was played.
But not just any game. It was
the Yiddish Football League's
championship game: The Matzah
Bowl.
Down 3-1 late in the game to
Bob's Behemoths, Chudow's
Chumps scored twice late, and
again on the first possession of
overtime, to win 4-3, and claim
the coveted megaphone.
Game MVP and team captain
Evan Chudow caught three
touchdowns, and had an inter-

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ception, with Rick Hawkins
catching the game winner. His
quarterback Jeff Eisenstadt threw
four touchdown passes.
Behemoths' quarterback Tim
Newman threw three touchdown
passes in a losing effort.
The YFL is a four-team league
that runs for 12 weeks; the last
two are playoff games. This is the
tenth year the guys in this league
have played together.
"They get so into it for this
game," league commissioner
Mitch Cicurel said. "During the
season they are pretty mild-man-
nered, but they get up for this
game."

Above: Gary Moroff goes
up for the ball with Rick
Hawkins defending.

Top, left: Chum
quarterback Je
Eisenstadt throws a pass.

Left: Greg Every tries to
pull in a pass.