After a year of woes, there is truly only one way to attempt to recover from the tragedies of 2005 and only one way to
bring in 2006. The single greatest game known to man: The Ice Bowl.
New Years Eve, 2005
Noon time (11 o'clock if Dan Gallagher is reading this) on New Years Eve at Memorial Park the tournament of all tournaments
featuring the greatest pickup players/greatest sideline taunters on earth. The Ice Bowl as always is STRICTLY INVITE. If I
personally sent you this link it means that yes, you are invited.
However, in order to insure that the changing of the year's went down right, I took a step back; I realized that this
year's Ice Bowl can not end the same way that 2004's Ice Bowl (also known as the Executive's Choice Bowl) did. So I took a
step back and asked myself what would Bill Romanowski do? After drawing a picture of him tackling a mutant horse in front
of an icy purple mountain I decided that "Romocop" would want one thing: a cleaner game.
It was as if last year that the innocence of our hearts had all been corrupted. 2004 was the first year in which you
could find more empty bottles of (very) cheap hard alcohol than blood. Sure, we had our injuries but they were all significantly
less funny than ones in past (For those of you who weren't there for Mike Amoroso's shoulder dislocation, I'm sorry.)The young
champions that we once were had been sacrificed to the gods and its in place was that uncle of yours who always smells like
whiskey and sports a football jersey way too frequently for a grown adult. I for one, won't let our young hearts die mostly
because my uncles like the Cleveland Browns.
What does a cleaner game mean? Quite simply; no alcohol on the field, unless cleverly concieled in thermaces with hot
chocolate (see Mark Logsdon). I also would like to announce, to the pleasure of many, that I can insure you that the field's
length will no longer be the equivalent to an Olympic Sized Pool.
Most importantly, I am quite pleased to announce the first ever:
Ice Bowl Combine. November 26th, 2005 at Memorial Park at 2 o'clock (sharp). The Combine will be a series of rigorous exhibition games which
will be offered to the viewing of the public, and will allow Captains to see Ice Bowl Hopefuls, and see the further digression
in skill of all of the Ice Bowl Veterans. I should note that it wouldn't be a bad thing if we found another
quarterback
PS: Could someone please bring a digital camera this time? If for no other reason than to help me remember who won the
game. And then on next year's site I won't have to use oil paintings of Bill Romanowski taking on a mutant horse in front
of an Icy purple mountain
And if you haven't noticed by now, the top icons are clickable.
(rosters, previous champions, 2004 awards, etc.)
