2014 was the inaugural year of the Breakfast League, and just like everyone's first time always ends up, it was pretty bad. Or so they tell me...

The inaugural season of the Breakfast League started simply enough. The idea first came to Kenneth Pancake, having just completed his first season of fantasy team ownership the year before, and winning the title in an ESPN generic league. He decided that it was time for a little more challenge, and he became the Commissioner. Next: finding members.
 
First, he went to his friends in his high school band program. These members included saxophone players Sean Alumbaugh, Ethan Maas and Kevin Portis; trombone players Kaelan Carlson, Aaron Green and Dan Garcia; other school friends such as Austin Bluvas and Josh Villarreal; and finally, an old church friend: Brandon Gaede. Separated by high school graduation, four of these players would never return after the inaugural season. But honestly, it was impressive that Kenneth even had nine friends to ask.
 
The draft was held in late August at the home of the commissioner. Notably, four quarterbacks were taken before the second round had even ended. With the first pick, Sean Alumbaugh selected Green Bay running back Eddie Lacy. Other high picks included RB Jamaal Charles, RB Adrian Peterson, QB Tom Brady, and WR Calvin Johnson.
 
Naturally, the year featured low scores on average, including some of the lowest weekly scores in League history. Kevin Portis’ one-week score of 23 points holds the league record for worst score in a week. Austin Bluvas holds two more scores on that list, followed with another disastrous Portis performance – both owners were out of the league before the 2015 postseason.
 
Austin Bluvas was the last undefeated team, going for six straight wins to open the season. Unfortunately, he then lost five straight matches before his next win. A record of 7-6 left him out of the playoffs.
 
In quite the opposite story, Sean Alumbaugh lost his first three, and five of his first six. Then, something amazing happened: he won the last six games of his season to make it all the way to the playoffs as the 2 seed.
 
The biggest failure of the season was provided on behalf of Kevin Portis. After posting a 2-3 record in his first five, he then lost every. Single. Remaining. Game. This would provide a record of 2-13 after the postseason, good for last place in the league… and the Breakfast League's second-worst record of all-time (it was the first worst until 2018).
 
Another hot streak was provided by Kaelan Carlson. After losing his first two games, he never lost back-to-back games for the rest of the season again, winning nine of his last eleven in the regular season to take the regular season title and the 1 seed into the playoffs. Dan Garcia would take the 4 seed at 8-5, and Kenneth Pancake would go 9-4 for the 3 seed.
 
The playoff (a four-team, two-week-round bracket) wasn’t necessarily close in the first round. #2 Sean Alumbaugh kept ahold of his hot streak, winning his seventh in a row over #3 Kenneth Pancake by 36 points. And it was #1 Kaelan Carlson with the big win over #4 Dan Garcia, by 37 points.
 
The championship was a totally different story.
 
After Week 16 (the first week of the championship round), Kaelan found himself down by 17 points – a daunting deficit. But in dramatic fashion, Carlson turned it around by scoring exactly 17 more points than Alumbaugh in Week 17. The tiebreaker was a 5-point seeding advantage, awarded to Kaelan at the start of the round for his higher seed. And with that, Kaelan was the Breakfast League’s first champion.
 
After that storied January, the majority of the league graduated, and some lost touch. The six that remained would be the core of the league’s future: Kenneth Pancake (who would remain commissioner), Ethan Maas, Aaron Green, Kaelan Carlson (the defending champ), Sean Alumbaugh and Brandon Gaede.