Friday, November 14, 2008

Pick for the weekend

I'm putting all 100 units on Air Force -5 versus BYU.

The time is right for Air Force to take the Cougars out back and give them an old-fashioned whooping at Falcon Stadium.

Setting the scene...

An F-18 Hornet kicks on the afterburners as he buzzes the stadium, warming the bones of each of the over 50000 in attendance.
"Off we go, into the wild blue yonder..."
"...NOTHING CAN STOP THE U.S. AIR FORCE"
Four F-16s in formation shake each blade of grass on the field as they fly over the stadium.
The Cadet Wing marches in.
The Bird delivers the game ball from a plane thousands of feet above the field.
The Stars and Stripes arrive from the same airplane, landing gracefully on the Falcon logo at midfield.
The flag does not contact the ground before cadets rush in to fold Old Glory.
An SR-71 Blackbird appears from the south as the Cadet Choir sings The Star Spangled Banner. It speeds over the stadium exactly at "...O'er the land of the free..."

Game on.
The game is a one-sided affair, with BYU warming up the bus at halftime. The cadets are so sore from all the pushups they've done (one for each point on the board after each score) that they have difficulty when The Bird and the Academy Superintendent crowd-surf the lower bowl. But this is the U.S. Air Force, so it is accomplished nonetheless.


Maybe this is a little ambitious. I mean, the SR-71 isn't even in service anymore. And if Air Force does not go on to treat BYU like the Rangers treated the Orioles, there's always next week. I can get these 100 units back then.
 
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