Dumb As A Blog Faceoff May 18, 2009 12:46 PM | permalink

Recently, Ritch and I discovered we both play on teams in New York's Black Top Street Hockey league. And it just so happened that yesterday our teams faced each other. Now I should start by saying two things:

1. Ritch's team is called the "Mighty Squirrels." Any team with this name has no business winning a hockey game. Though we all loved Joshua Jackson in the movie The Mighty Ducks, we all laughed at Anaheim for creating an actual hockey team under this title. While they later dropped the "Mighty" they still are named for a relatively docile animal and clearly try to overcompensate by acting like brutish neanderthals. Don't head down this road, Ritch.


2. Our teams had already faced each other this season and our goalie earned a shutout. They should have known better than to challenge us again.

The Skyfighters (my team) turned those squirrels into roadkill yesterday, winning the game 6 to 1.

My personal tactic? Stench warfare. I came to the game straight from two days of camping in the Catskills. The scent combination of campfire, B.O., and halitosis proved lethal to those vermin.