Fantasy Football Challenge - Football Fanatics Articles Archive

Enclosed in this archive is every bit of the action and updates that occurred in November 2003 within the world of fantasy football. You may want to read these articles for research on players in the coming year, or just check to see if we were way off base with our reporting. Whatever the reason, it's all here for your enjoyment.

Fantasy Football Challenge - November 2003 Fantasy Football Articles

Fantasy Football Challenge - November 2003 Article Archives

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hes thrown 81 straight passes without an interception while expertly guiding a complex offensive machine to the top of many NFL categories, including points per game to go along with the leagues lone perfect record.

Included in their 9-0 mark is an impressive overtime win at Green Bay where Green got in a shootout with Bret Favre and threw for 400 yards. Greens 83.5 rating with Kansas City is the best in franchise history. His 41 consecutive starts trail only Hall-of-Famer Len Dawsons 51.

"It was a big decision," said Peterson, who had always seen eye-to-eye with owner Lamar Hunt about the need to avoid dealing first-round picks. "But if theres anybody on this planet I can trust and give complete trust to, its Dick."

Peterson was giving up a first-round pick for a former sixth-round pick of the San Diego Chargers, a guy who had never established himself as a starting quarterback even before wrecking a knee.

"We brought him here because we thought we could win an AFC championship with him and go on to the Super Bowl," Vermeil said. "Hes here because of the kind of person he is and how he would fit into the organization and as a leader."

After one year starting for Washington in 1998, Green was signed as a free agent to be Vermeils No. 1 in St. Louis. But a season-ending knee injury shelved him in August of 1999, and the emergence of Kurt Warner shoved him even deeper into the background.

But in 2001 the Chiefs were quarterback-desperate. Elvis Grbac, in a decision that landed like a punch to the Chiefs solar plexus, had suddenly opted out of his contract and headed for Baltimore.

In a shaky first season, Green threw a team-record 24 interceptions. The Chiefs went 6-10 and critics dubbed him "Tr-INT" Green.

The next season, the Chiefs had the most productive offense in the league and Green hit 61 percent of his passes for 3,690 yards, with 26 TDs and 13 interceptions.

And now, in his third season in Kansas City, Green has fulfilled every promise Vermeil and Peterson

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