The two teams that I play on basically skate year round. Most of us have no down time, giving us an early advantage when the winter leagues start back up again. In our first four games, we haven't had any cupcakes, that's for sure. We played the Tony Kent Men's League Champions our first game back, the runner up our second game, a solid Chapin's team our third game, and in the Orleans Men's League, our first game was against the Summer League Champions (that game turned out to be a bit of a laugher though, welcome to winter league). So like I said, we've seen some very solid competition early, and if both teams keep playing the way that we have been early we could end up in a very good position at the end of the season.
The Orleans team has it's roster pretty well set, we lost two guys to retirement, but picked up three guys in their early/mid twenties, which adds to an already solid team that made it to both the winter and the summer league finals. The Dennis team however is a bit of a work in progress... There has been some talk about adding a pair of brothers (from the team that I play for in Orleans) to our Dennis team. I am of the opinion that the addition of the pair will make that team very, very dangerous, and will help to cement our lines, bringing a familiarity and consistency to games.
Also, we're looking for some serious sponsorship for the Dennis team, as I think that we're all tired of looking like a bunch of bums. Only half of the guys have jerseys that match, no one has matching socks and most nights we have to wear those stupid fucking yellow pennies because we don't match to begin with, so why not make us look even more ridiculous? Anyway, we've been working on a few different things sponsorship-wise. Hopefully something will pan out soon.
Next week, it's a ten o'clock game against Northern Lumber on monday, and a nine o'clock game Wednesday against the Chiefs... Both games should be good tilts.
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