Week 16: Red 10 - Blue 5

[Old Bucks Admin]

Completely unprompted, Kenny juggled the teams for Week 16, sending Greg Wright and Hughie over to Blue and Rich Cerbone to Red. It was so unlike Kenny, so whimsical in fact, that we’re not even going to chide him for Red’s lopsided 10-5 victory. Perhaps Blue was just too distracted by the absence of Kip Thomas, who had gone to the Hall Saturday night to watch the Dallas-Eagles game and had an irate Eagles fan throw a dart in his back. Whatever the case, Red was the dominant team, jumping out to a 3-0 lead on the kind of cheap goals that come in twelve-packs at the dollar store. Blue hung in there for a while with Saunders, Greg Wright, and Dan Dougherty’s friend, Joe, acting as a kind of three-man rapid response team that would score a goal whenever Red threatened to break it open. On the strength of their play and two freak goals by Jim Heffern and Joe Puegeot, Blue actually tied the game at fives. But then in the span of one shift, Bob Freiling, Eddie, and Kenny scored, putting Red up for good. Bob Freiling, who had been an offsides machine all game, bagged his fifth, though four of them were of dubious validity. After the game someone asked Hughie if he was going to skate with Blue again next week. He shook his head remarking, “You can’t be both vegetarian and cannibal.”

On this day: After double-checking the archives, we’ve concluded nothing memorable occurred on this day in Old Bucks history.