With only one running back, Bob dominates the league – Week Ten, 2004
Before week ten, one thing was for certain in Robioland Fantasy football…you needed two running backs to win (in fact, you weren’t allowed to play three-wide until 2001). By week fourteen, Bob took that ‘unwritten’ rule and shoved it up all our crack holes. At first though, it didn’t look like it. During the draft, Bob had kept Corey Dillon in the 1st and drafted Kevan Barlow in the 2nd.
After a hot start to 2004, winning four of his first five, Bob had fallen on hard times, dropping three of four, never producing more than 1,100 points. At 5-3, he actually led the division (it was a bad division), but he was still near the bottom in scoring. One thing was obvious, Barlow was a bust and he had to be cut. However, Bob landed Culpepper in a trade with me, giving up Hasselback and Johnny Morton (yes, Johnny Morton). He now had a solid QB to go with his RB (Dillon), but he had no choice to go three-wide. We knew he had a stud in Chad Johnson, but he also manage to nail down two guys who each had their breakout years; Reggie Wayne and Javon Walker.
In week ten, Bob faced off with a hot Burrier squad, riding in on a three-game winning streak. But the Bruisers were no match, as Bob crushed him 1,768-1,234. It was the most points Bob had scored in a single game in his short career. Funny thing is, it wasn’t a fluke. Bob would roll through the regular season, scoring over 1,500 in his last four games. In the quarter-finals, Castrone scored a 1,825-1,494 win over Masterson. With that score, Bob scored his sixth-straight game over 1,500 points; tying the record with me. Bob would fail to break the record the following week, but he would win easily over Calderon in the semis. With his three-wide set, he took down Griff in the Greatest Game of All-Time (below), becoming the first three receiver team to win a title.
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