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DEL.ICIO.USCool football story; Fantasy line-ups
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Central Gwinnett coach Dennis Roland told me a cool football story the other day.
In 1985, he was an assistant at UTEP. The Miners were playing defending national champion BYU, led by quarterback Robbie Bosco (great QB name).
Roland and the UTEP coaching staff had discovered a strong tendency in BYU’s offense and used it to their advantage. Whenever the Cougars would come out in a certain formation around the goal line, they would run a naked bootleg. Sure enough, the exact situation would come up during the game.
“We put our prevent defense in,” remembered Roland. “They ran the boot. We had it covered, and our guy picked off the pass and returned it for a touchdown. We won 23-16.
“A couple days later, one of their coaches was quoted in one of the Denver papers, saying that we had tapped their headsets. Our coach, Bill Young, said, ‘Yah, we tapped them all right, tapped their butts.’”
Lou Holtz just gave me a pep talk during halftime of the Texas A&M-Miami massacre, so I’m off to bed.
Before I crash, here’s this week’s Fantasy Line Ups. I went with 680 the Fan play-by-play voice Karl Werl’s team because the rest of you picked a couple players that had bye weeks. (You probably still would have beaten me, but again I blame my players).
Through three weeks, my esteemed colleague Kurt Aschermann is undefeated. And obnoxious. Beat him, Karl, beat him bad.
Karl Werl’s Wrecking Crew
QB - Dustin Taliaferro, Roswell
RB - Brandon Davis, Peachtree Ridge
RB - Reuben Haynes, Commerce
WR - Brice Butler, Norcross
WR - Tavarres King, Habersham Central
Def - Tucker
DP’s Dandies
QB - Nick Sorel, Norcross
RB - D.J. Adams, Norcross
RB - Brandon Jacobs, Parkview
WR - Brice Butler, Norcross
WR - Cordero Dixon, North Gwinnett
Def - Greater Atlanta Christian
The Kurt Dynasty
QB - Mikey Tamburo, North Gwinnett
RB - Demetris Murray, Buford
RB - Cisco Barry, Dacula
WR - Devonta Bolton, Norcross
WR - Christian Robinson, Greater Atlanta Christian
Def - Peachtree Ridge
Remember you can challenge Kurt and DP by posting your team—1 QB, 2 RBs, 2 WR, 1 Defense-on the blog before 2 p.m., Thursday. Feel free to email your team to dpurdum@ajc.com or kaschermann@@ajc.com as well.
You can use any combination of players from across the state, while Aschermann and Purdum will use only Gwinnett County players.
One reader-submitted team will be selected each week based on the creativity of their team name. That selected team will be posted on Friday’s blog and in the Gwinnett News, along with Kurt’s and my teams.
If that reader’s team outscores both of the writers’ teams, they will receive a special prize from the wardrobe of Kurt or DP. We’ve got dope threads, so this is worth the 45 minutes it takes AJC.com to load up.
Results will be posted on Tuesday’s blog.
Scoring System
(Note: Due to limited stats, QBs/WRs do not receive points for rushing yards; RBs no points for receiving yards)
Passing
100-200 yards - 6
200-300 yards - 9
More than 300 - 15
Rushing/Receiving
50-99 yards - 6
100-150 - 9
151-199 - 12
More than 200 - 15
Rushing/Receiving/Passing TDs - 6
Defense: Every point the opposing team scores is subtracted from your total.
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