So, much has been made of this mythical pull by the now-legendary John Clemmer. It started as a tall tale, became folk lore and now has blow up into a myth of gargantuant proportions.
I heard from a guy at work today — in Ohio, mind you — that Clemmer’s pull was so strong that it threw the Earth off its axis for but a moment on Sunday, causing a split second of lost time in a second universe governed by the Great UnderLord.
I dismissed this tale as fiction, because we all know the second universe is governed by none other than Brad Jones.
But then my grandmother called and told me that she heard Clemmer’s pull was so sick that it made all the little old grandmothers cry at her nursing home. And then all the old, wrinkly grandfathers started to cry because they realized they would never be as sick as Clemmer’s pull.
But again, I dismissed this senile old woman’s claims due to her … well … senileness. And then it came, like a beacon in the night — photographic evidence of Big Foot Clemmer’s mythical pull.
Just to clarify the All Bama Section Team(s) nomination procedures …
1. Nominations count as votes toward the different teams. So the more nominations a player receives, the better his/her chance of being named to the 1st Team.
2. You can only nominate three (3) players from your own team, and you must nominate seven (7) total players. Last year a bunch of teams just nominated people from their own team — even if it was less than seven — and so the voting was a little skewed. Let’s try to clean that up a little bit this year.
That is all, continue sending your nominations and I will contact those with invalid nominations to date.
It came and went pretty quickly, but Bama Sectionals 2009 is in the books. Congratulations to LSU for winning the crown this year after a one-year hiatus from the throne, and also to Ole Miss and Mississippi State for grabbing the other two bids to Regionals.
Thanks again to all the teams that made the trip to Tupelo. We want all of you — and more — back next year! So start thinking about it and planning well ahead of time, and consider submitting a bid to host the tournament.
Now to the business at hand …
Nominate seven players for the All Bama Section team! Also nominate one player for Bama Section Freshman of the Year, and one other play for Bama Section Player of the Year.
In order to nominate players, shoot me an email. Only one submission is allowed per email address. Try not to abuse the system, I was not born yesterday!
Deadline for nominations will be Friday. All Bama Section Teams will be named next week and voting for Freshman of the Year and Player of the Year will follow soon after.
Bailey and a few others will be texting me scores after each round tomorrow, so I plan on updating the Bama Secs Score Reporter page after I receive the updates.
Nothing like the impending college ultimate playoff season to get the old competitive juices flowing. Drawing on my own experience as a college ultimate player, I know it does not take much to get fired up about a tournament — particularly one as important as Bama Sectionals.
But a little overkill every now and then is not such a bad thing, right?
So yesterday I was trying to explain the game of ultimate to some guys at work, and I stumbled across this video on YouTube. Guys were impressed, I was fired up. Hope it gets you guys going and ready for this weekend.
