Game Day Decision
12/03/07 06:43 AM | Up Chucks
So, the Colts play the Sunday Night Game next week. I didn't find out that that game was Flexed to the evening game until midway through the Steelers/Bengals game. Colts at Ravens. The city that hates us because an owner they hated took his losing team to greener pastures in 1984. Those were rough years for us and I suppose rougher for them. It would probably be like losing your favored arm for a while. But they got the Browns from Cleveland, (how must have Cleveland felt?) arm re-attached for them. They changed the name of the Browns to the Ravens and said we are not that team. We changed cities, and when Rohn Stark kicked his last Indy punt we were no longer that old Baltimore team either. Both Mike Wilson and I have offered (threatened) to send Mikes CB (no not cornerback) buddy Mickey McGowan a Colts Championship hat but he says he'd be lynched if he wore it in public. Mickey came from the Browns area and now resides in the Ravens domain, maybe he needs a Cleveland hat. Speaking of lynching, David Garrard is no longer the only pro Football "primary" starter without a pick. Antoine Bethea saw to that in the second half of yesterdays contest, and added a thirty yard scamper after the pick for emphasis.
There were other games played yesterday though. Rich and I bowled 6 games yesterday. Mel Shoffner and Will Andrichik did 5 each. There was the Chatterbowl Tournament of Champions bowl to the death, extravaganza, o.k. I exaggerate a little (I thought I'd try that I haven't exaggerated for a billion years so, so what the hay?). Travis started out as the man to beat, then Will beat him. Well I started talking smack so I had to beat them both in the first game, in fact I beat all contenders. Second Game? Sure why not I thrashed them again, though a guy named Ty made a great showing. Third game? A few notables retired rather than face me again, Mel and Will, Honkey Tonk Judy, LeAnne Bailey and a couple of others, Dorothy Andrichik was there for Moral support (and to comfort her Mama's boy) but rolled nary one ball. That final game came down to Chris West and (Mama's Boy) David Andrichik our host and regular league bowler to boot. I came in third, still well ahead of Travis and I think Kris Bowman rounded out the top five. Thus ended the extracurricular bowling for The Chatterbowlers. It was off to Kay's Kitchen for victuals and fellowship, friendship and fluff dessert. Mauveen and Eric, Chris, Kris, Leanne, Travis, Mave, Ty and Judy chose to go separate ways leaving more than enough for the rest of us too devour from Kays cuisine.
Food sitting happily in our gullets, Rich, Will, Mel and I ventured back into the fray unafraid. We were frazzled if not frayed, and lost all games. Mel had one game well over her average, I had all three over mine and improved each game; 150, 154, 164, but Will and Rich struggled. Add to that the fact that the other teams lead-off bowler had a career first game well over 60 pins over her average, and their third man (Nicholas) could have his own theme for miracle pot-luck strikes. At one point Rich said Nicholas could throw a wet sponge down there and get a strike, and he was right. Nicholas may have had his own theme, (but I doubt it was Anton Karas' Third Man Theme) since he bowled with his I-pod and earbuds in all night.
Anton Karas was a Zither player (auto-harp) and was not known for scoring films prior to being asked to score the Orson Wells film in 1950. The Third Man Theme made it to #1 on the US charts, and was the first Austrian composition ever to do so. See you learned something other than bowling .
My Fun here is done, I have to go to work.
Chuck Pace
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Food sitting happily in our gullets, Rich, Will, Mel and I ventured back into the fray unafraid. We were frazzled if not frayed, and lost all games. Mel had one game well over her average, I had all three over mine and improved each game; 150, 154, 164, but Will and Rich struggled. Add to that the fact that the other teams lead-off bowler had a career first game well over 60 pins over her average, and their third man (Nicholas) could have his own theme for miracle pot-luck strikes. At one point Rich said Nicholas could throw a wet sponge down there and get a strike, and he was right. Nicholas may have had his own theme, (but I doubt it was Anton Karas' Third Man Theme) since he bowled with his I-pod and earbuds in all night.
My Fun here is done, I have to go to work.
Chuck Pace
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