1997 FFL
SUPERBOWL
Anorexic Toads - 48
Washburn Wildcats - 28
MVP:
Shannon Sharpe, 38 points
This
was our first Superbowl between teams that had BOTH been there before. The Wildcats had won the first-ever
Superbowl back in 1993 against the Gamblers. The Anorexic Toads had won the Superbowl in 1994 and 1996and they
were trying to become the first-ever REPEAT-champ in FFL history with a victory
in this game. The real story of this
Superbowl was the performance of the Toads tight end, Shannon Sharpe. All Sharpe did was catch 8 passes for 162
yards, including a 62-yard touchdown catch.
Sharpe totaled 38 points in this game to break his own 22-point record
for tight ends in an FFL Superbowl. The
rest of the Toads team could manage only 10 points. But as it would turn out, Sharpe would defeat the Wildcats in
this game singlehandedly. The Wildcats
did have a shot at a comeback on Monday Night Football--- they trailed by just
18 points and still had Drew Bledsoe & Troy Drayton. But the Monday Nighter turned out to be a
defensive struggle, and the Toads emerged with the 48-28 victory. Shannon Sharpe was the MVP of the Superbowl,
of course
and this was significant because his brother Sterling Sharpe was the
Superbowl MVP for the Toads in their 1994 Superbowl victory. It was the third Superbowl victory for the
Toads in the 1990s and, as it turned out, their final one in the decade.
ANOREXIC TOADS WASHBURN
WILDCATS
QB Steve McNair, -3 points QB Drew
Bledsoe, -3 points
RB Eddie George, 0 points RB Fred Lane,
5 points
RB Curtis Martin, 0 points RB Byron
Hanspard, 0 points
WR Tony Martin, 0 points WR Johnny
Morton, 0 points
WR Yancey Thigpen, 1 point WR Rob Moore, 11
points
TE Shannon Sharpe, 38 points TE Troy Drayton, 1
point
D Derrick Thomas, 5 points D Bruce Smith,
0 points
D Ray Lewis, 7 points D
Bryce Paup, 0 points
DB Darren Woodson, 0 points DB Rodney Harrison,
0 points
DB James Hasty, 0 points DB Bryant Westbrook,
12 pts
PK John Kasay, 0 points PK Greg Davis,
2 points
KR Amani Toomer, 0 points KR Byron Hanspard,
0 points