The Time Child, A Tent With Misters, A Cutback, Put It Up In Reverse, Badgers Play Two….. Scenes From A 105 Degree Sunday At Onion Creek
Epilogue:
The visions grew more intense in their temerity and lucidity; What was going on? 48 year old Jeff Spicoli? A cut back?….. “Put it Up!”……. Jake heading it off the defensive line. Yuni giving out handshakes. Adam thumping a left footed shot for goal? Against the Dragons!????.. Wu tang!………….
Chappy awakened from his dream… Confused and still ill from the Wilco “spanish” flu that had taken control of him. He had been reduced to the bedpan this week. His head felt like a cold wet sponge.
The visions meant one thing and Chappy knew what he had to do. He reached over to his bedside table and reached for the Talisman. The Talisman was a simple ornate clay pot. It had a single marking in sandscript, translated as ‘Poo Bear Honey Pot’
Chappy reached out and touched the pot reciting the magic words ….. “Time Child THE SLEEPER HAS AWOKEN!” …..
The visions returned. The Time child had made the time space visual connection. It was now 11:40am at field 6 Onion Creek fields ….
Chapter 1:
A white Pavilion arose in the distance. It was epuipped with misters. It was the glorious new CRU den acquired thanks to Jake’s escrow account. 14 badgered showed up ready to compete. The whistle blew.
Takoba proved to be a good possession team. They had a couple of good fit forwards who could shoot. They also controlled the ball during the opening minutes. No bother. Cameron Road stayed back, chilled, and settled back into their ‘counter attack put it up’ game plan.
Danny, New Chris, Dave and Billy did well to shut down Takoba’s options.
The pitch felt like a hot wet fart….
Jaybone got distracted and did not step up in time to stop a 20 yard low shot to the far post from Takoba. CRU down 1-0. No worries. Cameron Road stepped up. The Andy, Adam, Ciro, Brian midfield started to take control….. Then….a bouncer came to Derrick on the left upper flank…He stalled his run slightly, betting the ball would bounce over the defender. It did! Derick was free down the line. Ball at feet as he ventured into the box, Derrick loaded his signature cut back………
Peterson was in possession of the on-call phone. It blinked a double infinity sign and Chris knew he had 1.4 seconds…… The Derrick cut back had occurred, Peterson sprinted to the far post like Tom Cruise from Mission Impossible. Derricks cross across the pitch met Petersons foot for an upper net ticket to Pound town!
1 to 1…..Halftime….Grapefruits in the white misting pavilion…..
Chapter 2:
It grew a little hotter like a sharted pair of denim jorts…..Both teams came out and competed…..It grew a little tense but the ref did a great job of keeping everyone grounded. CRU defence did well. Dave had some good bazooka shots from upfeild. McKenna won the ball up top. Jake had a great header clearance on defense and had a few good wins in the midfeild.
Jaybone muffed a late shot but recovered just in time to clear it out. The final minutes entailed a good Ole’ fashioned Andy Michaelis takedown, a shanked Jaybone punt for goal. And the play of the game…..an intentional hand ball by Willis on the Takoba keeper to kill a final counter. It was a well fought 1-1 draw…..
Chapter 3:
Only 5 Beerca dudes were there..?……Against a 12 man Dragon squad. Will anyone rise to the occasion? Danimal, Adam and AJ did, stepping up to volunteer for Beerca giving the rest of us a Nice 2:00 match to enjoy. Danny dominated with a clean sheet and Adam had a nice goal while taking no prisoners! For those that played 2 games: We Salute You!
Epilogue:
The vision was fading…. .
The last vision Chappy felt was a sponge bath in the Dragon’s tent…..it was over.
