would be remiss if i didn't shout out
@simsarge, and the awesome "Last Song" from Ed Bear
we had a great junior (14-18) street hockey squad - perennial top record, but always choking in the playoffs - was 4 straight years of heartache
by the time our last eligible szn rolled around, we were a friggin' machine ... 14-0, beat every team twice, including double pastings of our downtown rival, the Killer Kings.
a few of us decided to stay down for that szn, even tho we were eligible to move up to our senior 'hood team, which had already bagged a few 'chips - i turned 18 barely a week after the szn started, causing agita for quite a few of our rivals.
we swept the first playoff (best of 3) series 2-0, then had the Killer Kings lined up for best of 5 'chip series - yes!
we took the first two games convincingly, then choked back the next two, both in overtime. because of course we did. them KKs had some fast kids, but we were always the rougher bunch, and we kinda dented a few bodies while taking our losses.
the afternoon of game 5 was punctuated by torrential rains .... faceoff was at 6 p.m. sharp, and by 4 that afternoon the rains were still pounding - about a half dozen of us met at the captain's building, and held court down the basement, which his family had the run of, as his father were the Super.
so we got a ton of beers, and got absolutely shftaced - and our cap started playing some schmaltzy 45s, including the theme from "Brian's Song" about 10 straight times ... then he dropped "Last Song" immediately after, and started screaming at our goalie TO LISTEN TO THE F*****G WORDS!
cap was not only yuuuge for 18, but just plain yuuuuge - easy 6'1", 225ish at that time, and solid - not fat ... our goalie were a littler fella, nowhere near that kinda size ... so drunken cap had enough of yelling, and physically carried the goalie over tto the record player ... and again admonished him to LISTEN!
then drunken cap slammed him, hurting his shoulder - they were cousins, so there were some farkakte family dynamic going on we had no clue about ... we were all so bombed anyways ... last thing i recall was "Last Song" being stuck as a result, and hearing "and still the light is on" over and over and over.
thank god the game got rained out, ya know?
WRONG.
cap's mother screams down the hallway that Harry from the hockey league were on the phone ... seems that the KKs were up at the "rink" squeegeeing they arses off, and we were to do likewise, as game was ON for 6:30.
we could barely walk ... and once we showed up they knew we were drunk, and had no goalie ... they petitioned Harry & co to award them a forefit ... no dice.
the game were barely 5 minutes old before we were down 4-0, so we just started knocking the living ish outta them - it got ugly, even their cheering section of girls from downtown, who always fancied us, began tossing s*** at us, spitting, etc
it was 7-0 when they called the game off, and a damn mini riot broke out, as word got out to our 'hood that somehing were brewing up there.
another choke job.
THANKS, ED!!!!
I love Sugar Mountain.
