Tim's Hurricane Heat Wins Holiday Bowl XX With Exciting 44-41 Win Over Mike's Posse!

(St. George, Utah)_In a fitting finish to a excellent year of exciting Zion Football League football, the championship game of the 20th annual Holiday Bowl showcased the ZFL's two best 2011 armchair football teams, Tim's Heat and Mike's Posse, on December 18th at Beau and O's Dixie holiday home.

In a high scoring title tilt slugfest that wasn't decided until late in the game the Heat melted down the clock, including the final six plays of the game, to win a barnburner 44-41 after two quick 4th quarter touchdown strikes by the Posse, The Holiday Bowl XX Championship lifts the Heat into six place in the all-time ZFL tournament standings with a total of seven ZFL Crowns and seven second place finishes. By virtue of their second place finish the Posse ended up with the best overall tournament record in the Zion Football League in 2011, winning three crowns in four ZFL championship game appearances.

Jenny, Beau and Candi were Santa's helpers as they opened their festive home, providing good food, good times and love while hosting the festive 13 team tournament.

Holiday Bowl Notes
The Heat scored two late touchdowns to burn Shawn's Assassins 42-37 in the semi-finals…The Posse rushed for four touchdowns in their 38-21 semi-final win over Preston's Blue Devils…John's Nighthawks waged yet another great defensive battle against the Heat, losing 22-20 in quarter-final action…After trailing 24-7 in the late in the first half to Travis' Tigers, the Blue Devils scored 31 points in the second half to pull out a 38-31 quarter-final victory…Shawn's Assassins rolled a 91 yard TD Punt Return and a 100 yard TD Kick Return in their 37-21 quarter-final victory over Tony's Air Nat...The Blue Devils kicked a 8 yard Field Goal on the last of the game to edge Doug's Parowan 17-14 in the opening round...The blistering Hurricane Heat defense sacked Cowboy quarterback Beaumo on the last play of their opening round game to escape with a 40-38 win over the home team...Travis' Tigers won their first ZFL tournament game, a 42-21 whupping of Helen's Mynx in the tournament opener...