World Footy News

Chicago United (number 6 in the WFN USFooty rankings) secured the 2007 Mid-American Australian Football League Premiership on Saturday with an emphatic 103 to 57 win over the Milwaukee Bombers. The victory over Milwaukee secured Chicago a Division 1 invitation for the USFooty National Championship Tournament.

Chicago finished the 2007 regular season an impressive 5 and 1 record, with their only loss to the Seattle Grizzlies in Seattle. In MAAFL play Chicago had a 4 and 0 record, ahead of Milwaukee, St Louis and Nashville who all finished 2 and 2. Cincinnati took home the wooden spoon with an 0 and 4 record in the MAAFL Championship Division.

Chicago hosted the Milwaukee Bombers in a local derby that has seen a lot of history over the first 10 years of USFooty. Chicago came out of the gate quickly piling on 6 goals straight to the Bombers 3 goals. For the next two quarters Chicago's talls were able to keep Milwaukee from scoring another goal while adding 8 goal 5 to their score. At the last change the Bombers were down 11.2, but they didn't give in and came out in the last quarter scoring 6 goals straight before Chicago was able to steady the ship and run out comfortable winners. United's Warrick Burgmann kicked 6 goals with Big Al MacGlashan contributing 3 to the total. Best were Burgmann, MacGlashan and Milwaukee's Ross Seigal.