Looking Back and Moving Forward
As winter blows its way across the calender of our lives, we once again begin the process of putting a check-mark next to the mental “things that must be done” list. We braved the crowds at the delta plex, grifting our way through another Drinking All Star Game. And tears swelled up in our eyes as we watched Bay City become a small industrial decaying dot in the rear-view mirror of the collective Honda Accords of what passes for our existence. Now on to the next crucial fence post, the Star Wars Tournament. Like the three stooges all trying to get through a doorway at the same time, getting to the end with a Willy Wonka golden ticket will not be an easy task. There will be many committee meetings, back-room trading, and secret hand shaking going on even before this event begins. But know this. It has begun. So let us not tread over the thin ice of collusion or plod through the murky waters of rule changes. Let us forge on my brothers. Let us hop on our Johnson 600’s, or 6000’s, or 6 times 6000’s! It is time to make lists. It is time to compile headliners. It is time to run back-door Princeton style offenses. In the words of the immortal James Honeyman-Scott, “Don’t be a sucker all your life. They’ll take your back and leave your shirt. Bow Wow Wow. Here come the dogs!” What the hell did he mean? Know one knows, and yet we all know, don’t we
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