The Late Bloomer

He might be the leader, but he isn't in the clubhouse yet.

Precocity isn’t synonymous with Warren’s golf game. When he was wrestling Byron on the practice range before a North Baltimore High School district qualifier, the Tigers coach wasn’t worried about his team’s chances if one might hurt the other (I think we can assume Byron won that scrap). No, despite the accessibility to the Patch, all those golf lessons from Dan St. Jean and an Inverness membership; Warren would not become a golfing champion until his late fifties. Incomprehensible as it may be, he has won three straight Bunnathons, defeating Tyler Riley in the process. You can call him a late bloomer.

In his 10th season of the DelFL, Warren might also be finding his fantasy football mojo. He certainly has found success through 6 weeks, and now after beating Bo, he leads the Brown family division. A robust running game mixed with competence and depth at wide receiver, this surely isn’t the Pigs and the Sushis that we are familiar with.

But the DelFL isn’t won in 6 weeks just like the 1986 Masters wasn’t won in 6 holes. It was the Back 9, in only 30 strokes, that ensured a 1 stroke victory for the Golden Bear over a much younger Shark and Tom Kite. How will Warren play on the DelFL’s Back 9? If it’s anything like his new and improved golf game, he might defeat his young whippersnapper competitors and win the jacket just like Jack did.