Who is Mel Gray?

	Who is Mel Gray? ...and why does he have an award named after him?
Mel Gray is the greatest kickoff return artist in NFL history. Believe it or not, check out this picture -- he was once a top running back in the same USFL backfield as Steve Young! His UFFL career was limited to three years as a WR on the roster of The Windmilling Chaos. The first four weeks of the 1992 season, he ran two kicks back for +50 TD's, and as a result TWC scored 40+ points three out of those four weeks. Since then, Mel Gray has been emblematic (to this writer anyway (hey, it's my team)) of high scores and excitement, and I've always tried to have guys on my team who return kicks as well as catch or run, in memory of Mel. Anyway, when I created UFFL Central in 1997, I decided to institute the Mel Gray Memorial Shootout of the Week Award (since shortened to just the Mel Gray Award to save my carpal tunnels) in honor of the highest scoring game of the week. I'm sure all my fellow owners are using the lure of the Mel Gray graphic in their box score to play their best players every week, thus elevating the UFFL from mere fantasy football to an art form. Or am I just full of it?

Who is Mel Gray?
...and why does he have an award named after him?

Mel Gray is the greatest kickoff return artist in NFL history. Believe it or not, check out this picture -- he was once a top running back in the same USFL backfield as Steve Young! His UFFL career was limited to three years as a WR on the roster of The Windmilling Chaos. The first four weeks of the 1992 season, he ran two kicks back for +50 TD's, and as a result TWC scored 40+ points three out of those four weeks. Since then, Mel Gray has been emblematic (to this writer anyway (hey, it's my team)) of high scores and excitement, and I've always tried to have guys on my team who return kicks as well as catch or run, in memory of Mel.

Anyway, when I created UFFL Central in 1997, I decided to institute the Mel Gray Memorial Shootout of the Week Award (since shortened to just the Mel Gray Award to save my carpal tunnels) in honor of the highest scoring game of the week. I'm sure all my fellow owners are using the lure of the Mel Gray graphic in their box score to play their best players every week, thus elevating the UFFL from mere fantasy football to an art form.

Or am I just full of it?

MEL GRAY GAMES for details, go to that week's boxscores and look for the trophy!

	1997	1998	1999	2000
Week 1	SB 37 SS 28	RAGE 39 SB 39	OUT 25 RR 23	RAGE 37 MM 12
Week 2	SB 37 LW4 25	BO 48 LW4 38	OUT 50 SD 30	OUT 45 EGO 25
Week 3	IM 36 EGO 19	LW4 29 TWC 19	OUT 36 RAGE 25	OUT 34 TWC 15
Week 4	BO 50 LH 34 and LW4 58 IM 24	SS 34 BO 32	SD 43 LW4 21	LW4 46 RR 28
Week 5	SS 30 MM 24	LW4 31 SB 26	OUT 32 MM 25	RR 35 SS 34
Week 6	LH 28 LW4 27 and SB 28 IM 27	RAGE 40 BO 19	MM 40 RR 22	BO 30 SS 17
Week 7	RR 31 LH 27	LW4 35 RR 33	SB 33 RAGE 15	OUT 42 SS 35
Week 8	RR 44 EGO 24	BO 34 OUT 20	SS 38 SD 30	OUT 54 SB 41
Week 9	NS 32 LW4 24	RAGE 39 RR 37	BO 60 EGO 22	SS 45 EGO 27
Week 10	EGO 42 SS 26	RR 42 TWC 18	SS 28 OUT 26	OUT 45 RR 26
Week 11	RR 43 MM 18	SB 56 SD 35	OUT 49 EGO 31	SB 34 SS 22
Week 12	LW4 33 RR 26	RAGE 38 SB 29	SS 36 TWC 27	EGO 23 TWC 18 and LW4 28 SS 13
Week 13	RR 42 SS 19	SS 52 SD 42	EGO 27 TWC 26	RAGE 41 LW4 39
Week 14	RR 31 SB 31	SB 44 OUT 33	BO 36 IM 35	M69H 42 SB 20

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