The Hammies!

Well, guys – it was a rainy, slippery, sloppy, Dolphin-y night at the Pit; our final tune-up before the big playoffs tomorrow. And… we lost, albeit despite a number of great plays and effort and big balls making foul calls and beautiful hammer points delivered by Screech and Pelch (both to Tim, I believe). Our opponents were also grossly undermanned, but were also a Tier II team – two factors that should have cancelled each other out, in our favour. Alas……

BUT, enough about last night, let’s talk about the season, as it is basically all but over for us.

Over post-game beers and burgers (while sitting awkwardly within the view path of our nemesis Dodgeball team, pondering whether they dislike us as much as we kinda dislike them – avert your eyes!), we tried to assemble a list of the Bag Of Hammers Rogers SportsNet Plays of the Year (aka, “The Hammies”… someone please come up with a better name). It was a tall task, so apologies if we missed any of your favourite personal accomplishments or superstar moments (I know, I know - there was SO MUCH to choose from), or if you don’t recall the play from my wonky description, or if I got the details wrong, etc. We came up with the following:

• Armsy’s top-down, reach-around, pants-soiling pass reception vs All 0dds at the Burnside Field
• The Pelch’s diving/behind-the-back/I-still-don’t-know-how-he-managed-to-catch-that-without-dislocating-his-shoulder point against a short-handed Discs 0f Fury in Spryfield
• Chippy’s two-kneed/Marty McFly guitar solo sliding catch against Hucker-Bees (Runner-up: to quote the blog, “Chippy’s epic 60-yard dash and lay-out to chase down a long put from D-Land, which was ultimately unsuccessful but finished with a fearless, face-first porpoise dive” – vs WTTWD in Burnside)
• THE HONEY MUSTARD POINT! – the dagger in the rotten heart of WTTWD (again!) at the at the Burnside Field (temporarily, as we lost the game)
• Glutes McGrath casually accepting a pass off the back off of WTTWD’s unaware Peter Jackson doppleganger, at Wanderer’s Grounds
• Jeeves’ signature, patent-pending EPIC foot block against Tuna at the Wanderer’s Grounds – for our first win of the season

Please, PLEASE, nominate other plays/players/points/games/food/dance moves in the comments. Again – there was so much to choose from; for example, Derek should get a nom for playing an entire game topless, and I feel Greg should be nominated for something!

It was an awesome year, Hammers – can’t wait to kick some asses and eat some tacos at the playoffs tomorrow!

-AA