It's Finally Time For Our Time in the Sun

[SuperHornet]

If you're in the area, turn on Good Day, Sacramento (CW 31) tomorrow morning. They are featuring the Lodi-Tokay Alumni Football game, part of an alumni doubleheader at Galt High tomorrow night. I'll be part of the show.

Better yet, come check out the game itself. Linden Alumni @ Galt Alumni 5:30, Lodi Alumni vs. Tokay Alumni 8 PM, both at Galt High. Admission is $10. Yes, I'm playing.

[Ursus A. Horribilis]

If you're in the area, turn on Good Day, Sacramento (CW 31) tomorrow morning. They are featuring the Lodi-Tokay Alumni Football game, part of an alumni doubleheader at Galt High tomorrow night. I'll be part of the show.

Better yet, come check out the game itself. Linden Alumni @ Galt Alumni 5:30, Lodi Alumni vs. Tokay Alumni 8 PM, both at Galt High. Admission is $10. Yes, I'm playing.

I wish I were in the area for this. Good luck to ya SH and if I can order a video copy of the game let me know.

[SuperHornet]

Lodi trounced Tokay 54-0. I totally stunk the joint up, though, as the 2-pt and short-yardage specialist. Almost threw a pick on a bootleg on a 2-pt attempt; needed more trajectory as the receiver had practcially the entire end zone behind him. I should have been flagged for throwing to an ineligible receiver at the other end of the field; I guess the refs felt sorry because the ball was so crappy the lineman had no chance at it. I lost track of how many fumbled snaps I had, including one on fourth and one. I picked it up and was held about two inches short.

The good news for me, though, was when I dropped the shotgun snap on an intended QB draw. At that point, I had no choice but to throw it up for grabs in the end zone. I saw red in the middle of the field and just let it fly right before getting lit up. Next thing I knew, the Tokay defender who hit me was looking like the losing tag team on those old wrestling video games because one of our backs had caught that desperation heave in the end zone.

So it wasn't all bad, and we won handily. Next year, we should be on our home field, and I'm thinking of shifting to halfback.

[93henfan]

Well, sounds like it was a nice, competitive game anyway.

[andy7171]

How can you lose track of how many fumbled snaps you had? WTF!?! Please post some pictures!

[SuperHornet]

My Siren friend that came posted a couple of pics of me (one on the sideline, one lining up for KO coverage) on FB. The only other pics I know of were two of others the local fishwrap deigned to publish. I'll see if I can get a decent copy of my friend's pics to post here.

These jerks covered Galt's intrasquad alumni game (odd-years vs even-years) back in January with a good article, yet they refused to do more than send out a photographer to this. These guys really don't care about our community. I'd really love to get rid of them. And I used to carry for them as a kid!

[andy7171]

My Siren friend that came posted a couple of pics of me (one on the sideline, one lining up for KO coverage) on FB. The only other pics I know of were two of others the local fishwrap deigned to publish. I'll see if I can get a decent copy of my friend's pics to post here.

These jerks covered Galt's intrasquad alumni game (odd-years vs even-years) back in January with a good article, yet they refused to do more than send out a photographer to this. These guys really don't care about our community. I'd really love to get rid of them. And I used to carry for them as a kid!

You do know none of us have a clue what you are talking about, right?

[SuperHornet]

Our newspaper seems to have a REALLY hard time covering local stuff. They'll grab an AP article for Cal/Stanford before they'll do anything about UOP, Sac State, or any of the local JCs, even though a lot of people from the area go to the local schools. They refused to believe the alumni game was happening until just before it did, and then only bothered to send a photographer, who only put a couple of pics in the Monday edition (there's no Sunday edition EVER). He said there would be more on the website, but the site won't acknowledge that the game took place. Ugh! These guys suck!

[SuperHornet]

Super Hornet (#22) on the sideline


Super Hornet on kickoff coverage

I'll have to see if other friends that came have pics of me at QB.

EDIT: These pics are courtesy of Sacramento Sirens defensive lineperson Christy Medinger (#95).

[andy7171]

This is a high school alumni game right? Is that really news worthy? Though a full pads alumni game is pretty impressive. And frightening.

[SuperHornet]

Though a full pads alumni game is pretty impressive. And frightening.

Yeah. On about the first play from scrimmage, our best mike backer got cut while bending down to pick up a fumble. Complete cheap shot. He was essentially done for the rest of the evening. Of course, his 42 years may have had something to do with that.

BTW, the uniforms (except for our pants, which came from U of Oregon) were used during the filming of "The Blind Side." The outfit that puts this type of thing on (Alumni Football USA) bought the equipment for this purpose. They stage several games of this type every summer. In fact, the guy in charge said that in a couple of weeks, they have a game somewhere featuring a 91-year-old player. That takes some nads!

[93henfan]

Super Hornet (#22) on the sideline

Earthquake? Or shaky cameraman?


Why do we only get faraway, blurry shots from the back of SH? You're like fucking sasquatch.

[bandl]

No words (other than these six).

[andy7171]

Though a full pads alumni game is pretty impressive. And frightening.

Yeah. On about the first play from scrimmage, our best mike backer got cut while bending down to pick up a fumble. Complete cheap shot. He was essentially done for the rest of the evening. Of course, his 42 years may have had something to do with that.

BTW, the uniforms (except for our pants, which came from U of Oregon) were used during the filming of "The Blind Side." The outfit that puts this type of thing on (Alumni Football USA) bought the equipment for this purpose. They stage several games of this type every summer. In fact, the guy in charge said that in a couple of weeks, they have a game somewhere featuring a 91-year-old player. That takes some nads!

How long did you practice before hand? I'm fairly certain I would injure myself getting into my 3 point stance.

[SuperHornet]

We had (or were supposed to have) two practices a week. That didn't always happen. We started about a month before the original target date (23 Sept). The date and location was moved because our traditional home field (the historic Grape Bowl, built as a WPA project around 1940) is out of commission for rehab to install FieldTurf and make the place ADA-compliant in response to a recent Tokay grad's lawsuit. The work is WAY behind schedule, and both HS's are splitting their home games between McNair and Bear Creek HS in Stockton for the ENTIRE season.

BTW, the Grape Bowl has been the scene for some great games. (UOP used it as a home field back in the day and played bowl games there, including an alumni grudge match with Cal won 7-6 by UOP with QB Eddie LeBaron. I've heard rumors of a Rams-Niners clash at our place as well. Some pretty big bands have played there, too, most recently George Thorogood and the Destroyers.)

Back to OUR game: We scheduled practices for Sat/Sun at 9 with the understanding that some (like me) would skip out on the Sunday practice for church. Others didn't bother to show on Sat, either. Rumor was that Tokay had more practices than we did, yet we outgunned them. The same thing happened at the game we had about 15 years ago, where we boasted one Ken Shamrock at corner. I don't know what Tokay did to set him off, but he was THIS CLOSE to going all MMA out there. Yet he was nice and calm, signing autographed glossies for the kiddies afterward. LOL. Shamrock was a coach for our frosh that year and grew up in the area.

[andy7171]

George Thorogood and the Destroyers

JFC before any of the little man complex blue hen fans catch wind of this its the DELAWHERE Destroyers!

It'll take a couple days to absorb the rest of this post.

[93henfan]

its the DELAWHERE Destroyers!

You'rw God-damned right it is.