Brady Quinn has at least one thing going for him: Casale likes him.

The master has returned. For those of you that don’t know the history of the Fire Sale, let me get you up to date.

I started this column back in 1997 (originally named “Meathead’s Weekly Fire Sale) for a now defunct web site called Red Eye Sports.

After a year there, I discovered Gridiron Grumblings; a web site that I noticed let their writers express themselves a little bit more. In others words, I thought I may be able to get away with swearing a little bit, so I figured it would be a perfect fit for the Fire Sale.

The owner of Gridiron Grumblings, John Georgopoulos, agreed and a new fantasy sensation was born. Thanks to my talented writing skills, sense of humor, astute football observations and amazing predictions (who will ever forget me saying Priest Holmes would be a Top 5 fantasy back when he signed with the Chiefs?), the Fire Sale became one of the most popular fantasy football columns on the Internet.

But in 2005 I got a job with the New England Patriots and was forced to give up my duties here at Sports Grumblings (still hate the name change, by the way). When I left, John asked if he could keep the column going and give it to a new writer. Because this is where I got my start, I obviously had no problem if they kept the Fire Sale going.

Well, little did I know they would run my beloved Fire Sale into the ground. Last year when I decided to return to the site, I tried a couple of different things but none of them felt right. So as we headed into this season, John and I both knew what needed to be done. The Fire Sale had to go back to the only man who knew how to write it. The man who created the masterpiece.

So we approached Mr. X and told him thanks but he was handed the keys to the kingdom and basically turned into a pile of rubble. It was time to rebuild what was once the most talked about fantasy column in the world and the original author had returned to do just that.

If this is your first time here, get ready for a wild ride. I know everything about every single player in the NFL. I start following these guys in high school. If you want to win your fantasy league this year, follow this column. It’s that simple.

For those of you who used to read my columns, you know I normally give an introduction that has nothing to do with football. Normally, that would have been it. But we all lost a great American recently and I feel I need to chime in with my thoughts on the subject.

As you all know, the world lost Michael Jackson. I didn’t know this but apparently from all the tributes I have been seeing on TV, Michael Jackson was a great American.

You see, Michael Jackson molested children.

This was not a rumor. I did not read this on the Internet. I did not read it in the National Enquirer. No, I saw Michael Jackson on TV and he told me in his own words that he slept with children in his bed and that he didn’t find anything wrong with it.

Michael Jackson: A Great American.

Jackson was involved in two separate legal issues regarding molesting little boys. One time he paid the family $20 million to keep the case from going to trial.

The other time he was inexplicably let go. Shortly after his acquittal, two of the jurors from the trial said they let a guilty man go free. Personally I think those two jurors should spend the rest of their life behind bars. But either way, that is two separate times Jackson was accused of molesting little boys.

Even though he was never officially found guilty, in the mind of most people I think he’s about as innocent of molesting children as O.J. Simpson is of murdering two human beings.

Michael Jackson: A Great American.

I am infatuated with serial killers and the FBI profilers that hunt them down. I have read a number of books on both topics. Basically, serial killers and serial rapists are monsters of prey.

That’s what I believe Jackson was. He preyed on parents of cancer victims, the underprivileged, and fans who idolized him. He preyed on those people and took advantage of the parents who trusted him with their children.

He convinced those parents to let their kids stay at his house, spend the night and then he molested them. When he was caught, he shut the families up by buying them off, and people wonder how he died $400 million in debt.

Michael Jackson: A Great American.

Finally, even the worst criminals in our society look down on people like Michael Jackson. Regardless of what crime you committed, if you molest or kill a child, you are considered the lowest of the low, even amongst other criminals.

Edmund Kemper was a serial killer in California back in the early 70’s. He killed his grandparents when he was 15 but was so intelligent that he convinced doctors to release him into his mother’s custody a few years later. That turned out to be a big mistake.

Kemper would go on to murder and dismember six girls, before killing his mother and one of her friends. After he was caught, an FBI profiler once asked Kemper if he was the worst kind of human being to ever walk the earth. Kemper replied:

“No because I never have and never would hurt a kid. I can say that for certain. People who would do that are worse than me. But I can say if you set me free I would start killing again the moment I got out. So am I one of the worst human beings this world has ever known? Yes.”

Edmund Kemper brutally murdered eight people and he thinks Michael Jackson is beneath him.

Michael Jackson: A Great American.

OK, OK, I made my point. Sorry for the long ranr but it’s been four years. Now, FINALLY, it fantasy football time, so on with the Fire Sale: