Kenny Gagne Wins 2023 Turkey Day Bonanza & $7,500

[Greg Ambrosius]

Kenny Gagne of Acushnet, Massachusetts topped a record field of 517 teams to win the 2023 NFFC Turkey Day Bonanza and the record $7,500 grand prize. Kenny had one team in this contest and he turned that $100 entry into a $7,500 prize. Amazing.

Kenny finished 2.3 points ahead of Nicholas Meens for the title in what was a really, really close race to the top. Rounding out the Top 5 were Barrett Scott, Brian Cerow and Chris Vaccaro. Defending champion Randy Mechels finished sixth overall as we paid the Top 35 in this contest.

Kenny hit on the Cowboys' trio of Dak Prescott, Cee Dee Lamb and Tony Pollard, while sealing the win with Christian McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel in the late game. Great job Kenny and congrats on the win.

Thanks to everyone who supported this one-day contest. The Turkey Day Bonanza just keeps getting bigger and bigger each year. Last year we sold out this contest with 450 teams, so to sell it out this year with 517 teams was a big thrill. Thanks everyone.

Here's the final standings and the Top 100 finishers:

2023 NFFC Turkey Day Bonanza Top 100 Teams:
1 Kenny Gagne Gee's Cheeseheads 198.65
2 Nicholas Meens Meens 196.35
3 Barrett Scott Scott 195.75
4 Brian Cerow Gobble! Gobble! 195.45
5 Christopher Vaccaro GST2 TURKEY 194.65
6 Randy Mechels Mechels 1 194.35
7 Louis Weber Superhogs Turkey 1 193.35
8 Erick G Mystery Gobble Gobble 191.35
9 Donald Daisley Daisley 190.55
10 Jacob Michael The first place team 190.5
11 Silas Dain Dain 190.45
12 Vic Tafur Spicy bull penis 190.15
13 NATHANIEL TORRENCE TORRENCE 188.55
14 David DiDonato DiDonato 187.45
15 Brady Tinker Tinker 187.25
16 Travis Loontjer Loontjer 186.9
17 Guy Stillings South Wind 186.05
18 David Webb drunken pilgrims 185.75
18 justin kimbrough kimbrough 185.75
20 Anthony Palavis Palavis 185.55
20 Anthony Cifelli MANICOTTI 185.55
22 Chris Worstell Worstell 184.55
23 Louis Weber Superhogs Turkey 2 184.25
24 Terry Attebery Attebery 183.95
25 Fred Pagani Pagani 183.55
26 Eric Albright EA Sports 2 183.5
27 Richard Duewel FOX N HAWK 182.95
27 Silas Dain Dain 182.95
29 Jim S Good Bye Money 182.35
29 Zachary Carson Ate Too Much Potatoes 182.35
31 Stephen Marshall Marshall 182.3
32 Neal Compton FBT1 181.95
33 matt modica modica 181.55
33 Frank Bagiardi BullGator13 181.55
33 Randy Mechels Mechels 5 181.55
36 David Beale Midight II 181.15
36 Ryan Atkins Vegas Vandals II 181.15
38 Chris Buencamino Buencamino 180.95
38 Anita Huffman Huffman 180.95
40 William Dandridge Dandridge 180.85
41 Marc Quitsch PorkChopsAndAppleSauce 180.6
42 Aaron Banach Jed 180.35
43 JOSHUA BOLLING BOLLING 180.05
43 Steven Foster Foster 180.05
45 Scott keikoan keikoan 180
46 Scott Zeidman Zeidman 179.75
46 John Rundle Rundle 179.75
46 Randy Mechels Mechels 4 179.75
49 ROBERT SIDERS SIDERS 179.65
49 Randy Lukas FB JJ 179.65
51 James Alsager Pillage the Village TG 179.55
51 John Pathe Pathe 179.55
53 william hare PiranHas IV 179.3
54 Chris Fernquist Fernquist 179.25
55 Stacey Rucki Stacey 179.05
56 Jeff Kratz Kratz 179
57 Dalton Del Don Del Don 178.65
57 wilson moy The 420 Express 178.65
59 Craig Despeaux Despeaux 178.55
60 Michael Cole Winner Winner Turkey Dinner 178.5
61 Michael Wright Oklahoma Annie 178.25
62 Scott Feschuk JFeschuk 178.15
62 scott vetter vetter 178.15
62 Paul Huston Charlie Brown's Turducken 178.15
65 Douglas Gruber Dougs Dawgs 177.95
65 DONALD SOUTHARD Lambeau Leapers TDay III 177.95
65 Joey Brown JB Turkey 177.95
65 Gary Bunch Leftys Losers 177.95
65 Ream Lazaro NY TBIRDS 177.95
65 Steve Contris Contris 177.95
71 Adam Jensen Jensen 177.9
72 Mark Mello Mello 177.85
72 Stephen Ciepiela Ciepiela 177.85
74 Darren Parrott Parrott 177.75
74 Randy Mechels Mechels 3 177.75
76 Jeremy Jurewicz Jurewicz 177.7
77 Jeffrey Barnhill Fairwinds Red Zone 177.55
77 marvin perdue perdue 177.55
77 William Wagner Wagner 177.55
77 Silas Dain Dain 177.55
77 Robby Schumacher DAK ON CRACK 2 177.55
82 Justin Kueber Kueber 177.45
83 James McGough McGough 177.35
84 Anthony Palavis Palavis 177.2
85 william hare PiranHas V 176.95
86 Misty Meadows Meadows 176.75
87 Ira Schwartz Canton Bound 176.65
88 William Smith Smith 176.45
89 Jasen Cassady Adam Cassady 176.35
90 Michael Wallis Wallis 176.25
90 Chris Geddes Geddes 176.25
92 MICHAEL ACHILARRE ACHILARRE 176.15
92 Adam Jensen Jensen 176.15
92 DAVID FEINBERG FEINBERG 176.15
95 Jon Thomason Hail Mary 175.95
96 Scott Stauffer Stauffer 175.85
96 Nick Walstrom Walstrom 175.85
96 Silas Dain Dain 175.85
99 David D. Kheel Kheel 175.65
100 william hare PiranHas III 174.95

[Greg Ambrosius]

Here was Kenny Gagne's winning lineup:

Dak Prescott - QB, Dallas
43.55
PA: 22/32, 331 YDS, 4 TDRU: 1/10 YDS

Christian McCaffrey - RB, San Francisco
30.90
RU: 19/114 YDS, 2 TDRE: 5/25 YDS

David Montgomery, RB - Detroit
15.10
RU: 15/71 YDS, 1 TD, 1 CONV

Deebo Samuel, WR, San Francisco
22.40
PA: 0/1, 0 YDSRU: 4/15 YDS, 1 TDRE: 7/79 YDS

CeeDee Lamb, WR, Dallas
WRDAL17.30
RU: 1/0 YDSRE: 4/53 YDS, 1 TD, 1 CONV

Amon-Ra St. Brown, WR, Detroit
18.50
RE: 9/95 YDS

Logan Thomas, TE, Washington
3.50
RE: 2/15 YDS

Tony Pollard, Flex, Dallas
22.30
RU: 13/79 YDS, 1 TDRE: 6/24 YDS

Seattle Seahawks, TK
9.10
FG: 2/3, 21 YDSXP: 1/1

Green Bay Packers, TD/SP
16.00
3 SACKS3 FUMRECS1 FUMRECTDS1 PNTS21_24

[Greg Ambrosius]

Here's the final prizes for the 2023 NFFC Turkey Day Bonanza:

2023 NFFC Turkey Day Bonanza Prizes:
1 - $7,500
2 - $3,000
3 - $2,500
4 - $2,000
5 - $1,900
6 - $1,800
7 - $1,750
8 - $1,700
9 - $1,600
10 - $1,500
11 - $1,400
12 - $1,300
13 - $1,250
14 - $1,200
15 - $1,100
16 - $1,000
17 - $950
18 - $900
19 - $850
20 - $800
21 - $750
22 - $700
23 - $650
24 - $600
25 - $550
26 - $500
27 - $450
28 - $400
29 - $350
30 - $300
31 - $250
32 - $200
33 - $150
34 - $100
35 - $50

[Greg Ambrosius]

Kenny Gagne becomes our fifth different winner of the Turkey Day Bonanza. This one-day contest was started in 2019 as we used the Fanball DFS software and we have now grown this from less than 300 teams per year to 517 teams in 2023. Great job everyone.

Here's a list of our overall champions:

NFFC Turkey Day Bonanza Champions
2019 - Thad Shirley $5,000
2020 - Silas Dain $5,000
2021 - William Hare $5,000
2022 - Randy Mechels $5,000
2023 - Kenny Gagne $7,500