Bag of Hammers: Peak Hammer?

Hey party people,

I was hoping to have a few beautifully-edited action shots from last night, to provide a more visual summary of our victory – but pizza, beer, sleep and now DAMN WORK has interfered. Stay tuned. Bunny snapped a few awesome shots, as did Partner and future-recruit Cynthia.

We’ve played many a decent game this year, team, but last night we may have realized our ~full potential. We stacked. We cut. We swung. We scored. It was a thing of beauty - peak Hammer; the result of a season of great coaching from Coach, I reckon, coupled with some residual aggro motivation from last week’s loss. The unfortunate thing is that we will only have one more game in which to apply all of this realized skill before succumbing to the annual fall/winter regression. Sigh.

Last night’s HON candidates, IMO:

After a year of handling, Sally (who played great) scoring what may have been her first point of the season (confirm?);
Punter making an INSANE catch to score off of an admittedly wonky pass from Sharky;
Speaking of Sharky, he made a great defensive pass block at half field, the read and sprint to which started in the end zone(!); and
Chippy/Doc/Sauce/Aimee/Tartar for a running, two-kneed sliding catch that would have made Marty McFly proud.

Obviously, there were many other highlights. *read wistfully* It was great having Tim and Green back on our side to run, block, pass and score like maniacs. Coach was EVERYWHERE. Bunny… showing off for his wife and kids. Partner… being awesome and sharing incredible insider hockey player gossip. And Captain is basically a Teale-esque handler now. We are all highlights, all the time. PRIME TIME!

Consensus Freeman’s Greek Veggie Pizza Player of the Game is Chippy/Doc/Sauce/Aimee/Tartar/Danaerys Targarian/Storm-born/Mother of Dragons/etc. etc. for a second half for the ages. After two end-zone drops, a primal scream and an epic disk spike, she ran down everything for the rest of the night. With a (literal) vengeance. All Odds didn’t know what hit ‘em.