{"id":8450,"date":"2025-10-08T18:22:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/?p=8450"},"modified":"2025-10-08T18:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:22:39","slug":"1986-usfl-week-17-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/2025\/10\/08\/1986-usfl-week-17-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"1986 USFL Week 17 Wrap Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The regular season continued to separate the wheat from the chaff in week 17. Only 3 games were decided by one score or less. Pittsburgh defeated Los Angeles and Michigan beat the Ace, hurting both teams playoff prospects. Meanwhile, Oklahoma kept hold of a slim playoff chance by defeating the Memphis Showboats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division leaders Birmingham, Boston, and Denver all won easily. Boston ran away with their division as the only undefeated team. All three other teams hold significant leads with only 3 weeks left in the season. Come back next week for more exciting action and to see if any other teams punch their tickets to the playoffs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986 USFL Week 17 Stat Leaders<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Games<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arizona Wranglers 21, Jacksonville Bulls 35<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chicago Blitz 14, Birmingham Stallions 51<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boston Breakers 63, New Orleans Brass 31<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles Express 21, Pittsburgh Maulers 24<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oakland Invaders 37, Washington Federals 20<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oklahoma Outlaws 23, Memphis Showboats 17<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denver Gold 34, Philadelphia Stars 24<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Las Vegas Ace 21, Michigan Panthers 24<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Houston Gamblers 25, Tampa Bay Bandits 37<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standings<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Players of the Week<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Offense<\/span>: Ken Toler, WR, Birmingham Stallions. While Breakers QB Shawn Halloran had himself a game, Ken Toler put on a display not often seen on a football field. He caught 7 passes for 137 yards and 4 touchdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense<\/span>: Chester Gee, S, Jacksonville Bulls. Gee terrorized the Wranglers on Friday night, getting an interception, a sack, a forced fumble, and 9 tackles in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Teams<\/span>: Scott Thomas, KR, Boston Breakers. Thomas returned 6 kicks for 218 yards, including an 89 yard touchdown against the Brass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The regular season continued to separate the wheat from the chaff in week 17. Only 3 games were decided by one score or less. Pittsburgh defeated Los Angeles and Michigan beat the Ace, hurting both teams playoff prospects. Meanwhile, Oklahoma kept hold of a slim playoff chance by defeating the Memphis Showboats. Division leaders Birmingham, … Continue reading 1986 USFL Week 17 Wrap Up<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-8450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-wrap-ups","tag-1986-regular-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.2guysgaming.net\/usfldr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}