7 teams and over 60 players showed up for one of the most memorable bowls recorded to date.  The round Robin Tournament was dominated by the Class of 2001.  QB Ryan Frazier, Steve Burke, Colby Wilson, Matt Mundy, Tim Anselmi, Chris Robinson, Jordan Hebert and classically best dressed Derek Alvarado, dominated the Round Robin Tournament going 3-0.  They fared well in style points and best dressed points.

The Class of 2007 and returning Santa Bowl Champs led by Chris Bingham c/o 2006 also played well in pool play.  The mostly '99 team consisting of QB Dan Burke, David Michels, Kevin Michels, Matt Kuehn, Brandon Taylor, Justin Bowersock, Markus Lloyd, Jeremy Lloyd, and Justin Hebert made it out of pool play at 2-1.  No one thought very much of the class of 99+. No one even considered this team as a threat. The younger classes noted, "This team [1999+] has no chance of winning.  Even if they were to win, it would be a Cinderella story that should eventually be made into an ABC Sunday night movie. No way, no how, would this team ever get out of the first round."

In the first round of tournament play, the class of 1999+, 2001, & 2003 won their first round of tournament play. This knocked off the class of 2007, 2000, and 2006 respectively.  In the semi finals between the c/0 99+ team [Ed Baily '00 and Brandon Lathan '00 were recruited] and 2003, Jimmy Dalhoff (c/o 2003) had one of the best plays of the tournament. On a first and 45, Jimmy intercepted his own deflected pass from Dan Burke to score the first 6 points of the game. At the end of regular time, the score was c/o 2003 - 6 to c/o 1999+ - 0.  The class of 1999+ struggled on offense not having even moved past the 30 yard line on any of their own possessions.  However, on the seventh and final play of the game, Dan Burke rolled out and threw a 45 yard bomb-dot-com in quadruple coverage to Kevin Michels.  Mind you, in 2006, the same play, same situation, same people, was ran to success in the semi-finals of 1999 vs. 2006.  Kevin Michels came down with an improbable grab to tie the game 6 - 6 [Check out the video and photos of the grab below].  This pass-catch duo was likened to the 1997 infamous, David Michels Hail Mary, to seal c/o 97 last recorded victory.  Appropriately, David Michels caught the winning one-point conversion to send the class of 1999+ to the Finals against their arch-rival c/o 2001.

It must have been the bi- in tournament play that the c/o 2001 received, that led to their loss. Experts in Vegas predicted the c/o 2001 to win by 6 but after some slow developing plays, the c/o 1999+ sealed their 5th Bowl Championship 13-7 over the agile and still skilled c/o 2001.  After the game, newly appointed team manager Scott Owen reported, "On paper, today, the class of 2001 is better than us [1999+].  They have a little more speed and agility in some areas, but at the end of the day, you really cannot teach experience.  That is how we won today. We stick to the basics and we win championships." 

Kevin Michels (class of ' 99 - Univ. of Texas)  was named Turkey Bowl MVP.

Markus Lloyd (1996) and Jeremey Lloyd (1993)

1. Jeremy Lloyd (93)
2. Markus Lloyd (96)
3. David Michels (97)
4. Justin Bowersock (99)
5. Justin Hebert (99)
6. Kevin Michels (99)
7. Matt Kuehn (99)
8. Dan Burke (99)
9. Brandon Talyor (99)

2000

1. Ed Baily
2. Brandon Lathan
3. Johnathon Chaupin
4. Ricky Rodriguez
5. Logan Lecompte
6. Matt Pezanoski
7. Stan McCorkle
8. Donald Thomson
9. Brian Knowlton
10. Mario Green

1. Steve Burke
2. Colby Wilson
3. Matt Mundy
4. Derek Alvarado
5. Ryan Frazier
6. Ryan Hamilton
7. Tim Anselmi
8. Chris Robinson