Soylent Green

Grenadiers have a target on their backs

GOD'S COUNTRY - Soylent Green was a 1973 American ecological dystopian thriller starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson. Back then, if Heston was in a film, it was worth seeing. The movie is set in New York City in 2022. By then the cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and global warming have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing, plus astronomical inflation. There are 40 million people living in New York City alone where only the city's elite can afford housing, clean water and natural food. The homes of the elite are fortified with private security and concubines. NYPD detective Frank Thorn (Heston) and his aged friend Sol Roth (Robinson) are tasked with investigating the murder of the wealthy and influential William R. Simonson, a board member of the Soylent Corporation, which Thorn suspects was assassinated. We don't want to ruin the film for those of you who haven't seen it yet, but throw in some greedy capitalism, executive corruption, the Roman Catholic Church, supply chain and distribution bottlenecks, street riots, police brutality, overt government intervention, murder for hire, a huge corporate cover-up and you have some eerie future foretelling and the makings of a classic science-fiction flick. It was Robinson's 101st film and his last movie role. He died twelve days after the completion of the film on January 26, 1973. Robinson had previously worked with Heston in The Ten Commandments in 1956. During the 2021 BDFL season, the Grenadiers have been a Soylent Green Machine - chewing up opponents and spitting them out into small green wafers wrapped in vacuum-sealed packages. Week 15 was no different as the G-Men grounded-up the Juggernauts 42-10 on Ed Bruce Field at Driver Stadium. Now as the #1 seed in the upcoming Big Daddy Championship Series (BDCS), the real question is...Can the Grenadiers shield the target on their backs long enough to keep the wolves at bay and bring home the coveted Grand Daddy Trophy? In other Week 15 BDFL interesting news (more below), the Freebirds get in the BDCS on a "Free Ride" while DaBlitz earns a spot in the league's "Elite 8" with yet another shot at their first BDFL title.

Free Ride by the Edgar Winter Group (1973)

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