2002-03 WINTER CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES
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PHOTO 1: The Entire Team
PHOTO 2:Smooth, Mega, Willie, Sykes, and Luis
PHOTO 3: Buck (naked), Smooth, Ant, and Drew
PHOTO 4:Wearing the Titaniumaniacs doo rag and glasses, Micky and Mikey-Mike.
PHOTO 5: Sykes, Willie, Ant, Louis, and Buck (naked)

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PHOTO 6: "Wild thing" (Jerry) and Mikey-Mike
PHOTO 7:Smooth, Ant, Drew, Sykes, and Willie
PHOTO 8:Triple X, (Paulie) holds up the trophy
PHOTO 9:Willie hold the trophy
PHOTO 10:The Titanium Man strikes the classic Heisman Trophy pose

In the winter of 2003 the franchise which hadnt technically been sponsered by the "Green Oaks Citizen's Club" for the last three seasons decided it was time for a name change. It was also time for the "old" quarterback, "Micky" who had missed the last 2 seasons due to "hip joint failure" to see if the expermental clinical trial surgery, and all the rehabilitation had paid off. They would enter two teams in two divisions for the winter season, one quarterbacked by Mikey-Mike and the other quarterbacked by his father Micky #14, who now went by th nom-de-plum of "Titanium Man" in honour of his titanium hip joint.

Team 1, quarterbacked by Mikey-Mike #4, went undefeated (10-0) in the "C" Division II, while team 2, quarterbacked by the father struggled somewhat (5-4-1) in "C" Division III, mostly due to the lack of timing between him and his new young receivers. His favorite receivers of a bygone era, Reggie, Eric, and Pavia were retired for all practical purposes. His timing was great throwing to Mikey-Mike, his son but throwing to everyone else, was another story.

In the first round of the playoffs, the undefeated team was behind most of the game to the 8th seed, until they scored 2 touchdowns within 20 seconds of each other. Joey "Psych" ran back a punt for a touchdown, on the ensuing kickoff, the old man, Andrade, recovered a fumble and ran it back for another touchdown. it was just the opposite in the first round of the Division III game, they blew away the first place team. "Titanium man completed just about every pass he threw, going 25-33 with 6 touchdowns. He was so effective that the other team complained to the league commisioner. They said they never had a chance because the other team had "Dan Marino" quarterbacking them. The Commsioner thinking that it was the younger son who quarterbacked out of his division was ready to award a forfeit victory to the other team, until the referees confirmed that it was undeed the "Titanium Man" who had quarterbacked the game.

The 2nd round was completely different, the undefeated team breezed past the once formidible "Boilermakers" who they had now beaten 4 consecutive times over the last 3 seasons for their chance at another championship game. Now the titanium man's game was a pure example of how one should never tempt faith. Their opponents were the 2nd place team, the Browns, having also never beaten the "Smooth-n-Corrupt franchise, they elected to use a "ringer". they recruited a player from the "A" division, a player who many say is the best athlete in the entire league. But not today. Oh, he helped them take the game to overtime, which in itself was a near miracle, with an 8 point lead, and only a minute left, the Browns managed to tie the game and send it to overtime. But in the overtime Faith took a wicked twist, (at least from the Browns perspective). From the 5 yard line, wide open, and with a seemingly game wining catch in hand the "ringer" yelled out "Game Over", he then dropped the ball. Well Titanium man completed 3 straight passes to move his team to the 1 yard line. They called the same play that had put them up earlier by 8 points, when they broke the huddle they noticed that the Browns were now going to play a man to man defense, they decided if they were going to beat them, they would beat their "ringer", they called another time out and changed the play. needless to say, the titanium man completed the winning touchdown to his son mikey-mike who was covered by the so called "best athlete in the entire league".

The championship games for the Division II and III were anti-climatic, again throwing a near perfect game, the Titanium man had a 40-6 lead with nearly 10 minutes left in the game. he started taking the knee from this point on. It had a value though, for the team waiting to play the next game against Smooth-n-Corrupt was not only surprised to see such a hugh blowout, but a quarterback who they perceived to be less formidible than the one they had to face next. Smooth did not have a perfect game, but he got the job done, and the defense played well, everyone played well, so much so that there was no one player who could be voted MVP.

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