WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN SUMMER LEAGUE

Written by Andy Bandit

The scores of both games last night were not close unfortunately, but as you know, sometimes the score does not tell the whole story.  I’ll explain below.  Wait for it.

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It is SO appropriate that this is a 70’s league.  Because I’m borrowing the title of a 1977 film to call this game THE TURNING POINT.  That’s kind of where the comparisons end though.  I mean that film was about ballet dancers.  Oh, wait, no I guess they’re still similar.  Hee hee.  Wait for it. ……. Nobody gave an inch in this one between Deep Purple and Barry White.  It was 1-1, 2-2, 3-3, 4-4 and 5-5!  And then finally Purple took a two point lead on a Peter Van Pelt block near the end zone to go up 7-5.  But White came back to tie it at 7’s, and then 8’s.  And the end of the half was the most sizzling point.  A Dan Oettinger full field huck just hit off Peter’s hand.  Then O.J. just barely missed a full extension layout.  And finally George Van Pelt hit Oettinger on another huck, and after a time out, Purple scored a short goal for the 9-8 lead.  So far, freakin’ exciting!  How’d it end up such a wide margin of victory?  Wait for it. ……. The second half started with a crazy catch by Oettinger that no fewer than three White players had a chance at, and it was 10-8.  Then it was back to trading points, culminating with a brotherly love play, Peter to George up the line to make it 12-10 Purple.  A White turnover gave Purple the chance for a big lead, but Randy Sanchez deflected a deep low huck and White took it down to the goal line where it should have been a 12-11 game.  But this is what you’ve been waiting for.  O.J. makes a nice catch and sees Bryan Edwards cutting for an easy score.  Rather than throw a little forehand, he channels Mikhail Baryshnikov from The Turning Point, demonstrates a gorgeous tours chaînés pirouette, and lofts his high-release backhand to an empty section of the field.  Style points for sure.  Dance 10 looks 3.  And that, dear readers, was the last time White had a chance.  Turning point, fo shizzle.  They failed to score the rest of the game, and it ended with Peter Van Pelt’s 20-yard hammer to Ryan Castro for the 17-10 win for Purple.  Both teams are now even at 2-2.

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It wasn’t really as close in this game between Soylent Green and Black Sabbath.  This was a case where the score did pretty much tell the story.  But it had it’s share of good moments, including Bofa’s callahan early on to make it 2-1.  Isabel Pedraza then blocked a Bofa pass to Midori Niikura, but Bofa got it back with a sweet hand block and Black went up 3-1.  Green tied it at 3-3 on a nice run-down catch by the male half of Taisam, and that was the last tie of the game.  Black went up 5-3 on Greg Preston’s huck to Cyd Zeigler speeding down the line like a true 5-time Gay Flag Football Superbowl Champion.  Then at 7-3 Swift Balls had a sick layout catch, wearing a shirt that (as Sam astutely pointed out) I believe the official name for the color is Observer Orange.  It might have been Green vs. Black playing, but Swift Balls beats to her own drum, like Cher wearing the sparkling red dress at the black & white only party from “The Player”. ……. Green’s zone was no match for Black.  Okay, it was no match for most of Black.  You can, of course, always count on a Greg Preston throw-away hammer, accompanied by that hyena-like cackle of his.  There’s nothing like hearing the Black players on the sideline shouting “don’t throw it to Greg!”  Priceless. …… But Preston sent a huck to Michael Endreola, that was D’d by Scot Shinderman, yet floated it’s way to Bofa off the mack and it was 8-3 Black.  And from there, the onslaught just continued, taking it to 14-7 when Green made a slight comeback to keep it respectable.  Mike Zurer hucked it to Shinderman.  Then got an interception.  Joel Uejio followed with bookends.  And Sam managed a block.  But a dropped disc ended Green’s hopes and it finished 15-9 Black to go up 3-1 on the season. …… Interesting note of the game: every single one of Green’s players showed up.  But I guess that doesn’t always equal victory.  I’m pretty sure all of Custer’s men came out to fight at Little Big Horn, and for a moment, it must have felt good to have a full squad.

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