Europe’s Top 20 – Week of September 10th, 2014

| American Football | 09/11/2014

This is the Top 20 for September 11, 2014

[su_dropcap]P[/su_dropcap]layoff football has proven why the elite teams rise to the occasion. Each league seems to have one team totally dominant. The Carlstad Crusaders bulldozed their way through the Swedish league, looking stronger as the season progressed and won the championship in a runaway. They could play even with any team in the Top 10.

The same could be said for the Braunschweig New Yorker Lions as they seem almost invincible. But the playoffs are always the playoffs, a new season. Although they have beaten their toughest opponents in Germany easily it seems, one can never know. They led the German league in scoring and overall defense and finished second in scoring offense behind Schwabisch Hall by one point a game. Unless someone derails this train, they will race all the way to the German Bowl. They remain at No. 1. Were Vienna playing, this would be a matchup to see. Cologne has picked up their game at the right time beating both Kiel and the Berlin Adler. They have popped up. The Schwabisch Hall Unicorns, like the Lions, swept away all opposition in the South. The Marburg Mercenaries have not looked good for the past month. They slid down again. Stuttgart fell too after another bad loss to the Unicorns.

In the United Kingdom, the London Warriors, who we have at Number 20, have qualified for the BritBowl in two weeks.

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Roger Kelly is an editor and a writer for AFI. A former PR Director the B.C. Lions of the Canadian Football League for 7 years, he now lives in Sweden writing about and scouting American Football throughout the world.