2001 Season - Thanksgiving Day

Analysis of all player scores at Trading Day shows how spending big bucks doesn’t guarantee success. You could have spent a whopping $19m to score just 123 points after 9 weeks or spent $4.5m for 320 points over the same time. Billion Dollar Busts Budget Bargain Boys E Grbac $2m (Cheryl) 21pts QB C Chandler $0.5m (Free Agent) 30 F Taylor $3m (Aaron) 0 RB S Alexander $0.5m(Phil) 54 E George $3m (Phil) 6 RB P Holmes $0.5m(Gareth) 36 R Moss $3m (Gareth) 18 WR J Thrash $1m (AP) 42 E Moulds $2 (Paul) 14 WR L Coles $0.5m (Gareth) 24 S Sharpe $2 (Wayne) 6 TE B Franks $0.5m (AP) 36 M Hollis $2 (Free Agent) 40 K A Vinatieri $0.5m (David S) 62 J Fisher $2 (John) 18 HC B Cowher $0.5m (Gully) 36 Hall of Fame Again Chief was happy to have kept Randy Moss however as on MNF he hooked up with Daunte Culpepper 3 times as Chief scored 30 points in the game and ended week 10 with A Hall of Fame 58 points. Meanwhile Mark was left outside looking in as he fell 1 point shy of the magic 50 when twice in the waning moments of MNF Kerry Collins threw interceptions in the end zone preventing Mark’s kicker Morten Andersen from adding to his game total of 10. Mark and Gareth have both been in the Hall a record 5 times. Chief’s big week gives him a 51 point lead at the top of the table but it isn’t all over yet. Back in 1995 Chief led the league for 7 of the first 8 weeks including a 39 point margin after week 5 before eventually finishing second 27 points behind inaugural BUMS Champion Johnny. We’re Famous Three weekends ago we got a brief mention on Sky when we e-mailed Nick Halling asking him who he thought was the best running back ever. “It’s gotta be Jim Brown, Gareth” he was heard to say. On Channel 5’s MNF show Mark and Mike opened with a full minute conversation mentioning The BUMS 10 times. This was prompted by an e-mail we had sent in answering the question “which 2 players along with Ram Aeneas Williams are still playing in the NFL who also played in the USFL”. Answer next week so send in your views. We’ve done the UK, now we need to be mentioned by Madden on Fox- over to you Wayne.