Catching up
OK. First off, the site has been fixed. Call it Murphy's Law or a bad real estate agent, but the two most obnoxious players that NEED to have their stats updated right away happen to be my next door neighbors. And adding insult to injury, they both happened to score last week. This pesky job thing is really hurting the RECREATIONAL-hockey documentation effort, so Karin has gone back to work part-time to give me enough time to keep things up-to-date.
So we've got a little catching up to do. Let's start with the Weevils. OK, we got handed a big, fat L from a team whose fanny is rosy red from all the spankings we used to give 'em. You want the play-by-play? Blah, blah, blah. Besides, they've documented it well enough on their site.
Hey, you win some, you lose some - but the more important thing is that this dynasty v. dynasty rivalry has fueled some amazing hockey, sparked region-wide interest in the sport, and turned the meek into men. Without Ringers v. Weevils, Raleigh was just another faceless top-50 market town with the requisite number of Quizno's, Best Buys, and minivans. Frankly, they went a bit overboard with the number of Moe's.
In 2002, when a cinderella team of professional hockey players took a run at the cup, people got excited, but more because it was a novelty - hicks with sticks. Toronto fans loved coming down (for less than a single ticket at home) and tee-heeing when puzzled North Carolinians asked about the two-line pass. What was missing was the culture to support it - the generation of enthusiasts that really understood the game, who lived, breathed, and ate hockey.
Well, in 2004 that culture was born as the Front Row Boll Weevils first faced off against the unsponsored Ringers. And from that moment, rolling you over like the smells from Shrek's gear, the fever grew. It lit up the community and set a fire under the Carolina Hurricanes - don't forget Jason Karmonous, playing for the Renegades during the lockout, bore witness to the knobby styles of both our squads.
And so, the latest iteration of the Ringers v. Weevils contest is small potatoes compared to the magnificent achievement that our Hurricanes accomplished last week to prove to the world what we already knew; that Raleigh, NC is a hockey town.
And while NBC cut away before he could say it, Marc Lavergne caught Brindy on CBC saying, "we couldn't have done it without all the great inspiration from local teams like the Ringers and Weevils. Particularly the Ringers..."
So we've got a little catching up to do. Let's start with the Weevils. OK, we got handed a big, fat L from a team whose fanny is rosy red from all the spankings we used to give 'em. You want the play-by-play? Blah, blah, blah. Besides, they've documented it well enough on their site.
Hey, you win some, you lose some - but the more important thing is that this dynasty v. dynasty rivalry has fueled some amazing hockey, sparked region-wide interest in the sport, and turned the meek into men. Without Ringers v. Weevils, Raleigh was just another faceless top-50 market town with the requisite number of Quizno's, Best Buys, and minivans. Frankly, they went a bit overboard with the number of Moe's.
In 2002, when a cinderella team of professional hockey players took a run at the cup, people got excited, but more because it was a novelty - hicks with sticks. Toronto fans loved coming down (for less than a single ticket at home) and tee-heeing when puzzled North Carolinians asked about the two-line pass. What was missing was the culture to support it - the generation of enthusiasts that really understood the game, who lived, breathed, and ate hockey.
Well, in 2004 that culture was born as the Front Row Boll Weevils first faced off against the unsponsored Ringers. And from that moment, rolling you over like the smells from Shrek's gear, the fever grew. It lit up the community and set a fire under the Carolina Hurricanes - don't forget Jason Karmonous, playing for the Renegades during the lockout, bore witness to the knobby styles of both our squads.
And so, the latest iteration of the Ringers v. Weevils contest is small potatoes compared to the magnificent achievement that our Hurricanes accomplished last week to prove to the world what we already knew; that Raleigh, NC is a hockey town.
And while NBC cut away before he could say it, Marc Lavergne caught Brindy on CBC saying, "we couldn't have done it without all the great inspiration from local teams like the Ringers and Weevils. Particularly the Ringers..."
posted by Richard Tooke at 5:23 PM
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