A jubilant Mojo D celebrates the Corsairs' 191-185.5 championship victory over the East Nashville Black Dogs with coach Sean Payton and MVP QB Drew Brees
By Soren Bernyn
Fantasy Sports Network
The 8-6 Corsairs limped into the playoffs with a three-game losing skid, a 1-5 division record and the third-lowest point total in the league. But when it mattered most, the Corsairs delivered a season-high, 191-point performance to edge the defending NFFA champion East Nashville Black Dogs for the 2012 NFFA Championship. QB Drew Brees was named MVP of the Championship for his 62-point explosion, the highlight of a 177-point burst in the first half of the day. Coach Sean Payton said "you cannot overstate Drew's unbelievable contribution throughout the year, and this most important game was his second 60-burger this season - it came at just the right time."
The Corsairs' RB corps also played a major role in the victory, keyed by Reggie Bush's three-TD torrent and solid games from Matt Forte and Steven Jackson. The receivers put up a poor game - only 9 points, but with 33 points on the bench, "this was a coaching error," Mojo D stated flatly. "I blame McMizzle - he got in my head as always, and had me thinking that I needed to think unconventionally to beat the Black Dogs. Had we stuck with the guys who scored the most points for us this season, we would have had a season-high final score. But the outcome was still fine, so I can't linger on that."
Asked about McMizzle's seemingly easy entry to his head, Mojo D replied, "Before the season started, I put most of my brain up in the cloud, so I'm surprised he could hack the interior. We found the portal where Jim got in, but rather than close it up, we're going to turn it into a revenue-producer. There are a lot of fantasy-football owners who would love to know what's going on in there, and I am happy to take their money."
The worldwide celebration of the Corsairs' championship reverberated from China, where the team gained millions of fans from last year's "Season at Sea" to Iceland, where owner Mojo D holds a diplomatic status. But it was loudest in Nashvegas at a raucous celebration near the Marathon MotorWorks. In a rare lull in the action during the Championship shindig, Corsairs Owner Mojo D shared his gratitude: "the Black Dogs are a worthy adversary, and I will enjoy every minute as champion, as they have. But Meemaw has cautioned me to be gracious in my victory, lest I get what she called 'the Money Shot.' You know her frying pan and garden shears are ON her desk, right?"
With Sean Payton's NFFA departure inevitable, Mojo D shrugged off concerns about the next coach: "It will be just like finding peyote - you walk along, paying attention to everything and nothing around you, and then -- and only then -- the solution presents itself you."
After dropping the Castaneda riff, the band was ready to go back on, and NFFA uber-fan Jack White called up Mojo D to debut their new single "Rather Be Lucky (Than Good) (Any Day)" (available in very limited quantities on collector-platinum vinyl) - an indescribably weird mash-up of Neil Young and the Skatalites played through a hand-cranked Victrola. The song pays homage to the Corsairs' guiding principle, which Mojo D said after the show "defined our season. I have often said that a buck-forty ain't shit in the NFFA, but it is if the other guys are scoring a buck-thirty, and that's what happened over and over this season. But these players brought it when the time was right, and it's fitting that in the most important game, the team was both lucky AND good."
With that, Championship MVP Drew Brees tapped a new cask of Corsair Nashvegas Championship Moonshine -- Mojo D said, "it's available for a limited time to celebrate this memorable and remarkable championship, it is filtered through peach pits, which we understand is actually an old Murrman family technique." The liquor flowed, the music rocked, the people danced, and the streets ran bright and shiny with holiday cheer and the glow of victory.
