Owner Bio
Mike Benson (aka Crow, Scarecrow, aka Mrs. King) became a permanent fixture on the FOBL landscape in 2007, following one of the more successful and colorful tenures in history, The Mike and his merry band of Columbus Crocodiles/Cutthroats. Apparantly during an argument over a name change (finalists were to be between the Carcinogens and the Kumquats) The Mike angrily and suddenly resigned as GM, leaving an opening that Mr. Benson quietly slid into. "I like to slide," the affable Benson said after the hire. "My mother always wanted to push me on the swings, but I kept telling her that I liked the slide better."
He decided to keep the franchise in Columbus ("It IS the largest city in Ohio, after all."), change the name to the Crows, and go about the business of acquiring pitchers with blazing fastballs and odd-shaped crew cuts.
Striking gold in his very first season, the Crows made it to the SS in '07. He has not been able to match that feat since, although he's suffered only 2 losing seasons since taking the helm. "Hey, Dan Marino never won the big one, either. And I have less nose hair than he, which I strongly believe is a plus."
Franchise Lineage:
2007 to Present: Columbus Crows -- Owner: Mike Benson (aka "Scarecrow")
2003 to 2006: Columbus Cutthroats -- Owner: Mike Krueger (aka "TheMike")
2001 to 2002: Columbus Crocodiles -- Owner: Mike Krueger (aka "TheMike")
