by Tim Whitehead on Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:59 am
Those were in fact glory days. I remember the first time I saw the "new" Ducks. They had fancy uniforms, 35 players on the bench, and a young midfielder by the name of Bill Brasky. He was just a little taller than Jeremy Tesar, had quicker hands than Julian Coffman, more hair than Danny Ernst, more wit than Chris Gaffney, more prowess with the ladies than Brauck Cullen, a more fluid writing style than Nathan Cordova, and looked better in khakis than Joe Kerwin. Yes, those were heady days for the Ducks. Led by Brasky, they ran roughshod over USL-MDIA/MCLA competition, only slowing down when they passed a mirror and just had to...had to, I say, stop and admire. Goals for were aplenty, goals against were a mere myth, much like Sasquatch, the French Army, Dry Land, and the dreaded liberal Pieper. But oh, back to Brasky. I recall one game, against some lowly opponent, Brasky won every faceoff blindfolded, with his legs tied together, and one arm around a supermodel. After he won each draw, he fired a shot from centre, about 270 miles per hour (with one arm mind you), each time beating the goalie top cheese. I believe the final score was something like 46 to negative 9, but that's not important. What's important was that after the game, Brasky managed to impregnate every single mother of the opposing team's players, all while wearing his court-ordered chastity belt. It remains a mystery how these Brasky-led Ducks managed never to win an MCLA title. One can only assume that Brasky, and the rest of these slightly-more-than-human Ducks possessed not only superior lacrosse skills, but also superior senses of compassion and humility, and decided it would be for the greater good to allow teams such as Brigham Young, Arizona, and Colorado State to beat them and feel better about themselves. It's not wonder Pope Benedict nominated every single member of the team for sainthood. Yes, those Ducks of the mid-oughts sure were something. Glory days, indeed.
Tim Whitehead
Simon Fraser Lacrosse
1997 - 2000