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Week 11 - “Thank you very little”
 

“Love to eat turkey,” –Adam Sandler

As hard as it as to believe, the Fighting Slovaks had a huge weekend in Week 11 of the BDFL season.  Adam Slo captured a pivotal 7th vict’ry by outscoring the Druid City Fritz Blitz and showing the rookies just how it is done.  The Slovaks also picked up the “Top Dog of the Week” award with a scorching 46-points, so the Bulletin is letting them have their say this week. Slovaks vak: “Ah yeah, can you say Jednotaaaaaaaa.  (It’s actually Jednota – pronounced Ya-NO-Toe – or, [First] Catholic Slovak Union – it’s legit, and Adam, Bullet, Chris, and Jaimie are card-carrying members in Branch #64.) Slovaks win! Slovaks win!  The Fighting Slovaks are runnin' cause we know the playoffs are comin.’  Fear Janikowski, fear Jackson, fear the Slo down lo, in the south… a big out.” –The EuroTrash Talker: Adam Slo.

 “I want to thank you… for letting me… be myself… again,” -70’s tune by someone like Earth, Wind, and Fire.*

Chris Hand’s Grenades etched 43-points on the scoreboard in Week 11 and stung the beleaguered Bootleggers to move closer to an elusive post-season position in the Big Daddy Championship Series (BDCS) with the victory.  “Made it up to Music Row, Lordy don’t the wheels turn slow.”  The Commissioner is now hoping that his first BDFL title may be within his grasp.

“Wham, bam, thank you ma’am,” David Bowie from Suffragette City Brother Jaimie also got a big win in Week 11 to keep his flickering post-season hopes alive, and he has A.E.’s lady Juggernauts to thank.  The ‘Nauts are on cruise control as they have already practically locked up a spot in BDCS.  But, the Black Creek Wooden Warriors are fighting and scratching and actually trying to maintain their warpath mentality (kind of like a football mentality or a linebacker mentality) as the weather turns colder and colder.

“I thank the Lord for the nighttime.  I thank the Lord for you,” -70’s tune by someone like Eric Clapton**

The Bulletin will go ahead and say it; the James Gang will be dancing in the BDFL’s Big Dance come late December, and the Tampa Tarnishers will be safe and sound at home (where they belong as a 9th place team or below).  Jerry James’ Rocky Ridge Wildcats completely out-classed the Tarnishers this weekend down on the Bay.  Heck, the BioCats even reveled in their vict’ry taking a limo up Hillsborough to frequent some of the places made famous in the late 1980’s by Parks himself, Curt Jarvis, and Little Perk. (By the way, the Tarnishers also got the “Toilet Seat Team of the Week” in Week 11 the old fashioned way, “they earned it,” by being the only home team to lose this week in the BEE-DEE-ef-el.)

“Thank you baby! Thank you baby!” -70’s tune by someone like Chicago***

The Hillsborough Haunts – just up the road from Raymond James Stadium – have nothing on the local Valleydale establishments maintained by the Riverchase Cheetahs.  In fact, some pointers could be learned by studying the Sin Wagon’s ways.  At any rate, the Cheetahs are ‘flying high and feeling mean’ after entertaining the Smoke Rise Woosiers this weekend and taking virtually every one of Woo’s one-dollar-bills.  “He looked like Andy Moore,” said one patron upon seeing Tommy T. turn over the George Washington’s at a near-record pace.  “He had a smile on his face all the way back to Hayden.”

EDITOR'S NOTE: Andy Moore, a lifelong friend and fellow Gardendale football player passed away on Monday, November 19, 2007. He was 45 years old. Funeral will be held Sunday, November 25 at the Moss Funeral Home in Cullman. Please keep his family in your prayers.

“Thank God and Greyhound she’s gone,” -70’s country music tune by someone like Johnny Lee****

Mad Jack Barnes kept his faint BDCS playoff hopes alive by edging the visiting Gamblers this weekend, 32-28.  Not only did the vict’ry help the Fairfield Powersleds avoid a dreaded 8th loss of the season, but it gives them hope that maybe, just maybe they can return to the glory days of back-to-back BDFL Championships, not that they are living-in-the-past.  As for the Gamblers – who also own back-to-back BDFL titles – they are just trying to get their pitching staff lined up for the playoffs.

“Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on… let’s play,” -70’s tune by someone like Harry Chapin and the Cat’s in the Cradle #

Mukes – who has experienced a lot of “Cat’s in the Cradle” moments with his beloved father Slim – benefited from some Monday Night Magic to experience a come-from-behind vict’ry against Magic City Mayors.  The win also keeps the Three Toed Tree Dwellers hanging on to hope that they may actually make the BDFL’s Big Dance instead of being relegated to the Big Mullet Series (BMS) tournament.  The Silver Lakes Sloth Monsters are 5-and-6 with very little margin for error down the stretch.  However, they will not get any sympathy from the Cronies and new mayor Lowry Langford who teeter on the brink of elimination via the Bullet Rule with 7-losses with 3-weeks to go in the regular season.

“I just want to stop, and thank you baby,” -70’s tune by someone like James Taylor ##

“Those already eliminated, we salute you,” the Brookside Dogs.

“I want to thank you girl for teaching me brand new ways to be cruel,” –Dwight Yoakum from Guitars & Cadillacs

Sometime in the late 1970’s, in a 17-18-year-old, summer league baseball game in Mt. Olive or Fultondale or Corner, Johnny Ball slid into second base with a loud, ankle-breaking pop heard across the park.  As teammates rushed to the center of the diamond to check on the injured player, one teammate asked, “Hey, Johnny Ball.  If you’re not going to play anymore, can I wear your cleats?”  If you guessed it was Bucket, you’d be correct.

Sometime in late 2007, after perhaps the worst defeat in Crimson Tide hist’ry, as fans sleep-walked to their post-game locations, vehicles, and homes, one fan (on a cell phone) asked, “Hey, Dog.  If you’re not going to the Auburn game, can I have your ticket?”  If you guessed it was Bullet, you’d be correct.

The Bulletin projects that Bullet will have to pay some sort of Super Banker interest or penalty or trade Dog some socks to completely pull off the transaction.  However, his Benton Bullets had little trouble subjecting the Brookside Dogs to another BDFL defeat in Week 11 of the season.  The Bulletin also believes that there should be no correlation made to the final score of the Bullets and Dogs game or the Alabama-ULM game or the 1994 Alabama-Auburn game, for that matter; 21-14.

“Thanks for the memories,” –Bob Hope.

The Bulletin would like to thank the Tampa Tarnishers for playing this season and welcome them to the Big Mullet Series.  A 9th place finish or better will not get the Tarnishers in through the backdoor, loophole and into the BDCS this season.  Parks’ loss in Week 11 to the __ is poetic justice for a team that was rewarded in 2006 for outright mediocrity.

“Give a little bit,” –remake of 70’s tune by the Goo Goo Dolls, who were at Montgomery’s Jubilee last spring and did an awesome job with it, and have recorded it, and I just remembered the name of the song when I heard it today.

* actually Sly and the Family Stone

** actually Neil Diamond

*** still not sure, it goes like, “all I want to do is thank you baby, thank you baby!”

**** actually Roy Clark (of Hee Haw fame)

# Harry Chapin is correct

## James Taylor is correct

Quote of the

Week

"Ah yeah, can you say Jednotaaaaaaaa.  Slovaks win! Slovaks win!  The Fighting Slovaks are runnin' cause we know the playoffs are comin.’  Fear Janikowski, fear Jackson, fear the Slo down lo, in the south… a big out"

The EuroTrash Talker: Adam Slovensky

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