Feb. 3, 2008 — Despite a furious comeback that saw the Senior Bro nearly pull off a late-season upset, Sean held on to the lead in the 2007 Gehlke Bros. Football standings to capture his third consecutive championship.
The victory assures that the golden statuette known as the Surfy Trophy will remain on the Junior Bro's mantel for at least another year, even as the location of that mantel prepares to move from San Jose to its new home in Hayward.
There was no grand ceremony to commemorate Sean's three-peat — his second in the past nine seasons — although the two Bros acknowledged Sean's fete by visiting the "Body Worlds" exhibit at The Tech museum in San Jose on Jan. 12. Seeing so many plastinated corpses in one place was sort of symbolic of the Senior Bro's season, which experienced a slow and tortuous demise after a five-week midseason slump enabled Sean to mount a seven-game advantage before a four-week spurt in Weeks 13-16 shaved that lead to a single game.
But as he so often has managed to do, the Junior Bro rose to the occasion. He won the Week 17 showdown to capture a two-game season victory, his narrowest margin in years.
"I thought you had me in the last week," Sean remarked from the living room of his San Jose apartment. He said he could feel the momentum shifting over the waning weeks. When he was brimming with confidence after stoking his largest lead in Week 12, Sean had speculated he would end the season with a double-digit advantage. Much like the oddsmakers' predictions that the Patriots would blow out the underdog Giants in the Stupor Bore, that lopsided win didn't come to pass, although Glenn did not let the magnitude of Sean's winning ways pass unacknowledged.
"So much of predicting the NawFuL relies on luck as much as it does skill," said the Senior Bro. "But when you can capture Surfy seven times in nine years, that shows you must be doing something right."
Junior Bro makes it three in a row... again
