WHO DAT SENIOR BOWL

By Your Athletic Supporter, Jack Strap

HHI has joined the legal fray claiming ownership of WHO DAT vs. the NFL. In addition, HHI will take on College Football if need be as they decided to take the SENIOR BOWL name. Put those two legal challenges together & what you got is this morning's WHO DAT SENIOR BOWL with these squads:

• Defendants = Mighty Kerr, Quick Mike, DD Bales, Swoop, and Your Athletic Supporter
• Prosecutors = X-Smoker Bob, Gary US Bonds, Iron Mike, Alan "The Question" I-Vath-son, and Coach Bill
• Roving Radon Rader changed jerseys after each game

During the pre-game Little Miss Cassy answered her Daddy's question "How many games are there?" by correctly replying "4 games", although on Jeopardy the correct answer would have been "What is 4 games". Game 1 saw the Defendants getting off to the slowest 5-0 lead in the history of basketball as the Prosecutors' Roving Radon Rader would have been better off watching paint dry while sitting out. Speaking of watching "paint dry", the Defendants used the "Hoosiers Picket Fence" play as they carried that early lead all the way to vic-tor-y.

The 2nd game saw the Defendant's objections to the Prosecutors aggressive play constantly over-ruled as if Judge Chamberlain Haller was presiding. The end result of this was a Prosecutors win & Roving Rader's 2nd straight loss. Game #3 of the WHO DAT SENIOR BOWL was an Amish Barn-Burner, but when it was all said & done it was a Coaching move that won it. With Mighty Kerr carving him up like Thanksgiving Turkey, Coach Bill took himself out of the game after which the big mo(mentum) shifted to the Prosecutors with Roving Rader who got the "W".

As Little Miss Cassy said at the outset, there were "4 games" and the last one was also very competitive as back-and-forth they went at each other tooth-and-nail until the very end when someone found themselves wide open for a game-winning deuce, so now you say "WHO DAT?". DAT was SENIOR Strap who nailed it for the Defendants with Roving Rader leaving all (11) players dead even at 2-2.

ONE FOR THE MONEY, TWO FOR THE SHOW.....

By Your Athletic Supporter, Jack Strap

Thanks to Injured Iron for opening up Grace this AM for a "Bo Derek Perfect 10" who were more accurately rated as 5's after they were split up by Coach Bill & Mighty Kerr as follows:

• Dollar Bills--Coach, Quick, Magnum, Radon Rader & Your Athletic Supporter
• Health Kerr--Mighty, DJ Jazzy, Gary US Bonds, Scholesinator & X-Smoker Bob

Game ONE FOR THE MONEY saw the Health Kerr plan passing for shots that were On THE MONEY while Quick was playing like London Bridge as he kept falling down and Dollar Bills were devalued by some dirt poor shooting as they fell behind 7-0 and lost 15-7. Then early on in Game TWO FOR THE SHOW the Dollar Bills were actually worth something, but down the stretch they were bankrupted by Health Kerr while losing 15-9.

But then before Game THREE TO GET READY, the Prideful Dollar Bills seemingly sang "you can knock me down, step on my face, slander our name, all over the place" and then they went out & filibustered their opponents as "you can do anything but Blue Health Kerr must Lose" & they did. Finally in the Iron Man Finale (IMF) it was time NOW to GO CAT GO as Dollar Bills assured Health Kerr couldn't pass with good defense & also went on the offense while taking the IMF Title by a 15-6 vote, errr score.

TODD'S THANKS

Glenn

Please accept our family's heartfelt thanks for the gift you and Mike dropped off on behalf of the HHI guys. It was extremely generous, and a great blessing. Things are quiet right now with my health, we're going to Penn this week to look at some potential clinical trials, and then possibly 1-2 more rounds of chemo.

If you could forward this to any of the guys that chipped in, that would be great. Look forward to seeing everyone soon, hopefully as I start getting back into shape.

thanks again, Todd

HHI IS A BLESSING TO GRACE

By Your Athletic Supporter, Jack Strap

When the HHI Founding Fathers started this league back in 1992, they had no real expectations but if they had sat down & penned a Declaration of Hoops-depedence, they would never (& I mean never) had expected to be called a "BLESSING" by anyone--let alone a Church named GRACE. So GRACE offered HHI a token of their BLESSING Appreciation this AM with a Free Breakfast (that the TCFL's Berks Stink'in Loser Reitzy will have hard time duplicating this year).

For this BLESSED event, HHI Hall of Famers Old School Bruce & Commissioner Collin were in attendance, as was regular "fan" Little Miss Kassy Bonds. Quick Mike & Alan "The Question" I-Vath-son (it was really DJ, but I owed Vath this one from last week) were named the Captains & GRACE-fully selected these BLESSED teams:

• God's Children (GC): Captain Quick, DD Bales (who I ask why we were a dime short on the pot today--note this isn't a marijuana reference), X-Smoker Bob, Scholesinator, Old School Bruce, and Your Athletic Supporter with Commish Collin
• Vath-ological Killers (VoK): Captain Vath, The Giant Lipper (who scheduled his FL trips just right so he could be in attendance), DJ Jazzy Jones, Mighty Kerr, Radon Rader, and Gary US Bonds with Little Miss Kassy

Game #1 saw God's Children playing like a BLESSING while jumping to a big lead & appeared to be coasting to victory at 14-6 when Captain Vath-ological quit on his team by refusing to come back into the game. But DJ took over the VoK on the court like "he was the Captain" & they came back to within 14-11 before Vath re-entered the game & God's Childrens then GRACE-fully prevailed.

Again in Game 2, God's Children (GC) were BLESSED to jump to a 6-0 lead, but Mighty Kerr then came off the bench to spark the Vath-ological Killers. But But (the dreaded Double "but") the GC had enough GRACE at the end to win the DC (Daily Championship) on a Deuce by Captain Quick (who was a BLESSING until he started kicking Collin under the table during the Breakfast).

The 3rd Game was for Pride and Captain Vath had it as he started Killing GC from a variety of spots on the floor, but if not for the GRACE of God's Children (& alot of missed shots & turnovers), the Vath-ological Killers wouldn't have won a game.

So before Breakfast that just left the Iron Man Finale (IMF) which saw Old School using Steel wool (& that reminds me, Thanks to an injured Iron for coming down from Leesport to open up the gym for us) to remove the rust & score a key basket for God's Children who went on to earn HHI's Holy Grail--the IMF Title.

Next was the Main Event: GRACE'S BLESSED Breakfast Buffet which included french toast, eggs, potatoes, sausage, bacon, pancakes, juices, and donuts. This was much appreciated by the Hungry-Hungry HHIers who were amazed that HHI IS A BLESSING TO GRACE.

OPERATION

By Your Athletic Supporter, Jack Strap

First off, Great Job by HHI Nation these past weeks with donations totaling $600 for the Todd Fund. Quick (who exhibited great penmanship on the card from HHI) & I dropped it off and Todd was very appreciative. He told us about his latest OPERATION which was a RFA (Radio Frequency Ablation) procedure to remove the tumor on his liver and let's all pray he's now "tumor free" (he'll know those results in about a month). Todd also noted that he's in a quiet medical period and has started some running, and possibly will stop by Grace one of these Saturdays & challenge some of you to run suicides with him.

This AM's Captains were Ian Rocks & DJ Jazzy Jones who created these virtual franchises:
* Keeping Up with the Jones = Captain DJ Jones, X-Smoker Bob, Gary US Bonds, Mighty Kerr, Iron Mike, and Alan "The Question" I-Vath-son
* For Those About to Rock = Captain Ian Rocks, Scholesinator, Steve-Roller What the Heck, Radon Rader, Diggetty Doug Bails, and Your Athletic Supporter
* Da Rover = Quick Mike

Game 1 saw For Those About to Rock getting off to a "Quick" start as Quick was their Rover until he went down with a Wrenched Ankle. But despite Quick being on the bench down the stretch, For Those About to Rock--We Salute You with the "W".

Before Game #2, DJ evidently took out Quick's Wrenched Ankle with OPERATION by Milton Bradley (the company, not the idiot baseball player) and he was ready to go for Keeping Up with the Jones who really accelerated the pace & For Those About to Rock literally couldn't Keep Up with the Jones as they tied the series.

Unfortunately the Daily Champion (DC) game was marred by more Wrenched Ankles as Iron Mike & DD Bales both went down & out and no OPERATIONS could bring them back. This game also saw nobody able to Keep Up with DJ Jones from long-range as his deuces were daggers & thus Keeping Up with the Jones took home the DC.

But despite the aforementioned players attrition, there was still an even "Ten Iron Men" left for the Iron Man Finale. The IMF saw Those About to Rock really amp up their defense while riffing on offense all the way to the IMF Title.

TRIUMPHANT RETURN

By Your Athletic Supporter, Jack Strap

Yours truly was pleasantly surprised this morning when he arrived at Grace--HHI's Place & found The Giant Lipper lacing up new sneakers for a TRIUMPHANT RETURN to the court after weeks of chemo. Also RETURNING to HHI today was Pat's Steaks who found that while he was gone, DJ Jazzy Jones had assumed his role as long-long distance deuce-master so we matched those two up as the Captains and they selected these virtual NFL multi-franchises:
* Cowboys/Redskins = Captain Pat (Cowboy Fan), Lipper (Redskins Fan), X-Smoker Bob, Mighty Kerr, Alan "The Question" I-Vath-son, and Swoop
* Eagles/Vikings = Captain DJ (once again he goes both ways--Vikings & Eagles Fan), Quick, Iron Mike, Gary US Bonds, and Your Athletic Supporter

Game #1 saw Lipper setting the tone early with an accidental elbow to my solar plexus. Meanwhile the Eagles/Vikings on-purpose attempts at deuces were all off the mark like McNabb/Favre's errant passing when they're out of rhythm. Unfortunately while McNabb/Favre can also get hot, the Eagles/Vikings hoopsters never did as the Cowboys/Redskins prevailed.

Although DJ started to find the range in Game 2, his Eagles/Vikings struggled with turnovers & more misses while neither Pat nor Big Bob (in Florida the last 2 weeks) showed much shooting rust as they helped make Lipper's RETURN a TRIUMPHANT one with a Daily Championship-winning victory.

Quick was in the bathroom for awhile before Game #3 for Eagles/Vikings Pride and when he finally came out to cheers, DJ noted it was the first "2" he had dropped all day. Meanwhile with the DC in hand, X-Smoker seemed content to sit on the sidelines & sing Old McDonald had a Farm with Little Miss Mini-Gary until he suddenly blurted out: "how many times have I had to do a sheep?". I don't know Bob, how many? Meanwhile the Eagles/Vikings Pride was evident in their win.

Next the Iron Man Finale (IMF) Title was on the line and the Eagles/Vikings prideful momentum carried them all the way to an "insurmountable" 14-11 lead before Lipper TRIUMPHANTLY & Joyfully nailed a deuce to bring the Cowboys/Redskins to within one. Then after an Eagles/Vikings turnover (or was it a bad Raiders' JaMarcus pass?), Lip set a "picket fence" screen for a Swoop deuce that clanked around the rim but fell through capping Lipper's TRIUMPHANT RETURN with an IMF Title too.