German Football League 2007

German Football League 2007
master	Braunschweig Lions (6th title)
final	German Bowl XXIX
Relegated	Saarland Hurricanes
Teams	12
Games	72 + 7 play-off games
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German Football League 2007 gives an overview of the 2007 season of the American Football Bundesliga , which was the 29th season of the 1st Bundesliga / GFL.

League division

Kiel Baltic Hurricanes Hamburg Blue Devils Berlin eagle Braunschweig Lions Cologne Falcons Marburg Mercenaries Dresden monarchs Darmstadt Diamonds Weinheim Longhorns Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns Stuttgart Scorpions Saarland Hurricanes

Teams 2007 GFL North GFL South0000

Overview of the participating teams and their all-time Bundesliga and GFL balance sheets

	team	Years	S.	U	N	home			Selection			TD ratio
GFL North	Berlin eagle	24	170	6th	99	87	2	47	83	4th	52	8051: 4931
	Braunschweig Lions (TV)	13	107	0	38	57	0	15th	50	0	23	5018: 2734
	Hamburg Blue Devils	12	92	4th	40	52	0	17th	40	4th	23	3733: 2318
	Kiel Baltic Hurricanes (N)	7th	26th	1	50	18th	0	21st	8th	1	29	1601: 1319
	Dresden monarchs	4th	25th	2	21st	15th	1	8th	10	1	13	1093: 1158
	Cologne Falcons	2	10	1	13	5	1	6th	5	0	7th	426: 657
GFL	Stuttgart Scorpions	15th	70	6th	91	37	5	41	33	1	50	4271: 4717
	Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns	9	41	6th	53	23	0	27	18th	6th	26th	2374: 2551
	Saarland Hurricanes	6th	15th	4th	48	9	3	22nd	6th	1	26th	1201: 2177
	Darmstadt Diamonds	4th	22nd	1	29	17th	0	9	5	1	20th	0789: 1077
	Marburg Mercenaries	4th	25th	2	17th	13	1	8th	12	1	9	1330: 1019
	Weinheim Longhorns (N)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0

• (N) - Newcomers
• (TV) - defending champion

Season course

Regular season

In the south, the Weinheim Longhorns made it into the play-offs in their first GFL year . The teams from Darmstadt and Saarbrücken could safely be left behind and they achieved close game results against Kiel and Marburg. But of course you had to pay hardship in one game or another. The Marburg Mercenaries, last year's runner-up and defending champions of the group south could not keep their place in the sun, they were close and fought head-to-head with the Scorpions from Stuttgart. And they had to win in their last away game of the season against the Hamburg Blue Devils to stay ahead of the Marburg team, but they made it. At 17:10 the Blue Devils from the Hanseatic city could be defeated. With this, the Scorpions conquered the crown in the southern group for the second time after 1998. The Red Lantern went to the Saarland Hurricanes, which lost the direct comparison against the Darmstadt Diamonds.

The northern group was marked by the march through the Braunschweig Lions, only the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes achieved partial success at 15:15 at home in the Holstein Stadium . This draw helped the Kielers to achieve third place, on which they slipped one point ahead of the Blue Devils from Hamburg, who could not win their last game against Stuttgart. Second place went to the Berlin Adler, one point ahead of the Kiel team. Dresden found itself in the table cellar very quickly, only in the ninth game could the first and only points be scored. The Elbestädter had to be relegated, while the Cologne Falcons landed in the no man's land of the table with a lot of room for improvement.

Interconference Games

The interconference meetings saw the northern team as the winner eight times, and the southern team four times. However, this clear distribution is a little misleading. Sometimes the games were very close. The Cologne Falcons already needed a two point conversion to beat the Darmstadt Diamonds with 22:21. The Weinheim Longhorns led against Kiel in the fourth quarter with 13:10, but were still intercepted by the Baltic Hurricanes with 16:13. And the Braunschweig Lions also had to fight in their home game against the Marburg Mercenaries until the last play to keep the upper hand with a field goal from kicker Steffen Dögler with 25:23.

Promotion relegation

In the relegation, the Dresden Monarchs faced the Hamburg Eagles , while the Saarland Hurricanes from Saarbrücken faced the traditional Munich Cowboys team .

In the north, Dresden managed to keep the Eagles at a distance in both games, even if it was very close in each case. The monarchs traveled to Hamburg with a 28:24 home win in their backs. There they fell 7-0 behind in the first few minutes and thus temporarily moved into the second division . But the Dresdeners were not unsettled by this and played a 19:13 lead by half time, which lasted until the end of the game.

In the south, however, the shares of the game were distributed quite differently. The Saarbrücken, only slipped into relegation because of the lost comparison, nicely distributed guest gifts in the form of fines and other individual mistakes to the Munich guests. They gladly accepted and drove a safe 25: 7 away win. The second leg in Munich was then a clear affair. The guests were swept out of the Dante Stadium with a score of 48: 2 in front of 1,400 spectators .

Play-offs

In the quarter-finals, the respective home teams prevailed. Braunschweig marched and clearly showed the Weinheim Longhorns their limits with 55:26. In Berlin, the Eagles allowed the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns only one field goal in a 23: 3 home win. The other two games were more interesting. They beat the Stuttgart Scorpions, after the two interconference games, the Hamburg Blue Devils for the third time in the season, this time the result was 27:17. And the Marburg Mercenaries got the upper hand against the Kiel Baltic Hurricanes with 21:16.

In an exciting semi-final, the guests from Marburg were able to put the first points on the scoreboard, but in the course of the game Braunschweig repeatedly increased its score up to a 26:12 lead in the fourth quarter. Marburg was able to shorten it to 21:26, but nothing more. With this, the Braunschweig Lions moved into the German Bowl for the eleventh time in a row, in front of 5200 spectators in their home stadium on Hamburger Straße . The second semi-final turned into a defensive battle in which the Stuttgart Scorpions, with almost 1,500 spectators, got the upper hand over the Berlin Eagles at 19:14. This was the first time the Scorpions made it into the final in the fourteenth Bundesliga year. The move was decided by a dramatic final two minutes. Stuttgart led 1:45 minutes before the end with 13: 7 and tried to make everything clear with a field goal, but the kick failed and was carried back to the touchdown for the Adler. After a successful extra point, it was suddenly 14:13 for the capital city. But Stuttgart struck back again, with a 64 yard TD pass from QB Ira Vandever to WR Tim Schäuflein, they left the field as the winner with 19:14.

German Bowl

In the German Bowl XXIX , the Stuttgart Scorpions and the Braunschweig Lions faced each other. The Scorpions had a real home game, because the bowl was played in the local GAZI stadium . But this was of no use in front of 8,152 spectators. The Lions won safely 27-6. They continuously increased the lead to 24: 0 after three quarters, before the Stuttgart QB Ira Vandever made the honor touchdown in the fourth quarter. Lions kicker Steffen Dölger made the final score with a 44 yard field goal. With this, a total of sixth, German Bowl victory, the Lions drew level with the Düsseldorf Panthers , who were the sole record winners so far. It was also the second Braunschweig title hat trick, after 1997-1999.

Scoreboard

German Bowl XXIX
team		Points	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Braunschweig Lions		27	0	14th	10	3
Stuttgart Scorpions		6th	0	0	0	6th
Lions	Scorpions	player	Move
7th	0	Olaf Fischer	68yd pass from Dennis Zimmermann ( PAT Steffen Dölger)
14th	0	Matt Crockett	18yd run (PAT Dölger)
16	0	Andre Kruger	Safety
24	0	Jörg Heckenbach	9yd pass from Zimmermann (Conv.Reilmann)
24	6th	Ira Vandever	27yd barrel
27	6th	Steffen Dölger	44yd field goal

statistics

Closing tables

GFL North

	society	Sp	S.	U	N	Points	TD	Diff.
1.	Braunschweig Lions	12	11	1	0	23: 1	354: 166	+188
2.	Berlin eagle	12	8th	0	4th	16:10	267: 136	+131
3.	Kiel Baltic Hurricanes	12	7th	1	4th	15: 9	256: 159	+97
4th	Hamburg Blue Devils	12	7th	0	5	14:10	305: 219	+86
5.	Cologne Falcons	12	3	0	9	6:18	210: 377	−167
6th	Dresden monarchs	12	1	0	11	2:22	169: 440	−271

Source:
Explanations: = qualification for the play-offs; = Relegation

GFL South

	society	Sp	S.	U	N	Points	TD	Diff.
1.	Stuttgart Scorpions	12	10	0	2	20: 4	390: 144	+246
2.	Marburg Mercenaries	12	9	1	2	19: 5	363: 194	+169
3.	Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns	12	8th	1	3	17: 7	398: 218	+180
4th	Weinheim Longhorns	12	4th	0	8th	8:16	196: 311	−115
5.	Darmstadt Diamonds	12	1	0	11	2:22	102: 356	−254
6th	Saarland Hurricanes	12	1	0	11	2:22	88: 378	−290

• Tie breaker
  • Darmstadt Diamonds ahead of Saarland Hurricanes because of the direct comparison won (6:14 and 19: 7)

Source:
Explanations: = qualification for the play-offs; = Relegation

Relegation

league	Home club	Visiting club	Result	After quarters
North	Dresden monarchs	Hamburg Eagles	28:24	14: 7; 7: 3; 0: 7; 7: 7
North	Hamburg Eagles	Dresden monarchs	13:19	7:13; 6: 6; 0: 0; 0-0
south	Saarland Hurricanes	Munich cowboys	7:25	0: 7; 0: 6; 7: 3; 0: 9
south	Munich cowboys	Saarland Hurricanes	48: 2	6: 0; 14: 0; 14: 0; 14: 2

This enabled the Dresden Monarchs to keep the class in the north, the Munich Cowboys rose in the south and the Saarland Hurricanes descended.

Playoffs

Quarter finals

Semifinals

German Bowl XXIX - Stuttgart

1N

Braunschweig Lions

55

4S

Weinheim Longhorns

26th

1N

Braunschweig Lions

26th

2S

Marburg Mercenaries

21st

2S

Marburg Mercenaries

21st

3N

Kiel Baltic Hurricanes

16

1N

Braunschweig Lions

27

1S

Stuttgart Scorpions

6th

1S

Stuttgart Scorpions

27

4N

Hamburg Blue Devils

17th

1S

Stuttgart Scorpions

19th

2N

Berlin eagle

14th

2N

Berlin eagle

23

3S

Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns

3

Individual statistics

A selection of the most important offense statistics.

Quarterbacks

	player	society	Sp	Att	Cmp	%	Yards	TDs	Int.	Rating
1.	Dennis Zimmermann	Braunschweig	15th	253	158	63.9	2342	28	6th	172.0
2.	Joachim Ullrich	Marburg	14th	283	177	62.5	2552	29	6th	167.9
3.	Ira Vandever	Stuttgart	15th	236	124	52.5	2168	27	6th	162.4

Wide receiver

	player	society	Sp.	Catches	Yards	TDs	Long	Avg / C	Yds / G
1.	Max Seroogy	Schwäbisch Hall	13	77	1301	14th	63	16.9	100.1
2.	Estrus Crayton	Kiel	13	92	1161	9	69	12.6	89.3
3.	Brandon Langston	Hamburg	13	64	1107	16	80	17.3	85.2

Running backs

	player	society	Sp.	Runs	Yards	Avg	TDs	Long	Yds / G
1.	Patrick Geiger	Stuttgart	15th	251	1540	6.1	12	90	102.7
2.	Danny Washington	Weinheim	12	144	1037	7.2	9	76	86.4
3.	Dartangan Johnson	Kiel	13	214	1005	4.7	11	54	77.3

Web links

• Official GFL homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Source: Huddle-Magazin 14 / 07-18 / 07
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Huddle 39/2007
3. ↑ ^{a b} Huddle 40/2007
4. ↑ Huddle 41/2007
5. ↑ ^{a b} Standings / Schedules on stats.gfl.info. GFL, accessed August 8, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Individual statistics