Lots of things more super than a bowl...

The BPUC did hit the trifecta yesterday. Our third game in a row this week and it was a pretty good one. We were back to the odd number of players, only getting 9 out there. Early on, it wasn’t any problem for the green team, they used the sharp passing of Visor & CaptK to distribute the disc around to Scott & Swinny and were actually outscoring the 5-man gold team of Kash, Phil, Bill, Eric & MattP who seemed to be having some challenges playing any effective D.

You all know my theory here…the team with the extra person gets lazy thinking they can zone everything and all of sudden when you thought you had two people marking somebody, it ends up being nobody marking and that runner getting loose for a score.

Swinny was having fun mastering his flick yesterday with two early “pinpoint” 5-yard throws for scores…both, to his delight, with me on him… "How’d you like that flick, Bill?” he taunted much more cordially than the last time his flick was called into question and he was spewing expletive-laced barbs back down the field at his tormentors.

Other nice tricks I noticed on the field yesterday…Eric batting down a scoring pass with his hat…Wings throwing his hands up into the air to grab another score and giving the impression that he had a 42” vertical leap while not actually leaving the ground, me getting tangled up in somebody else’s feet again and today taking down Scott for no good reason at all, Kash hitting a corner cut scoring pass with a nice zip throw for the 2nd day in a row, & Phil “getting the pot calling kettle black” treatment from Bill yelling at him for not running and breaking and then zinging an uncatchable pass towards his teeth.

All of it was done under the relative balmy sunshine and 38 degrees…but with no wind! Great day of Ultimate!

Chief Buzzard’s Super Bowl thoughts: You think Michael Strahan is intimidating rushing you?...think about Wings bearing down on you as you’re about to catch a disc you’ve just elevated for. Tom Brady/Gisele Bundchen, that ain’t nothing. You think she brings his cleats to him if he forgets them? Swinny, you got that Brady guy beat. Yesterday’s temperature in Tempe, Arizona, site of the Super Bowl 56 and cloudy. Sunday’s forecast for D.C…56 and Sunny…great day for Ultimate, the sport of the common man. Who gives a goose poop about an organization who’s participants will be hauling down an average of $1.1 million this year. You know what our average salary on our field was yesterday roughly?...about 60K, I’d say. You’d think we could find something more to our demographic to occupy our time on Sunday eh?

See you next week Buzzards.