I thought I saw the end of Ultimate Frisbee in the Captains' Career Course. My team lost every game until the post-season. Then we got so sick of the game that, remarkably, we started winning. I don't know what the deal was, but apparently, we even suck at deliberately trying to suck.

The instructors at Fort Rucker take this incredibly seriously (I got zero hours worth of instruction on counterinsurgency at AVC3, but by God, I got at least ten hours worth of instruction on the strategy and tactics of Ultimate Frisbee.  I even have a tag on this blog just for ultimate frisbee), so imagine my surprise when our team wound up beating nearly every major and colonel on Fort Rucker in a game of Frisbee.  I think this victory was unprecedented.

Anyway, our companies had a little competition amongst ourselves yesterday morning. Me being me, I decided to make two teams for my company--but what to name them? I could just call them "Team 1" and "Team 2", but that just wouldn't suffice for me.

What to do? Well, the solution is simple. The previous day, I was looking at the rules of UF on Wikipedia, when I noticed that many of the diagrams for the rules and plays of UF use two hypothetical teams. These teams have names.

Folks, this is by far the most awesome idea ever. If you take the "Greedo shooting first" idea that George Lucas had and took the inverse of it, that would be how awesome this idea was.

Look carefully at these pictures. You will notice that the teams are referred to as "Team Ninja" and "Team Pirate". I decided to follow suit. The decision seemed to be popular, except I had one soldier who protested and thought that "Team Cheezburger Cat" was better than "Team Pirate". (I'm not kidding about this either. That cat is so popular around here that we even made a security badge for PVT Cat, Cheezburger.)

You have to click on these pictures to truly revel in their pure awesomeness:



I particularly like the design on the t-shirts and the Pirate defender saying "Force Home, Yarrrrr".

We won the Ultimate Frisbee tournament. After only winning twice in the regular season, we came back from the losers bracket to win the championship, beating the #1 team twice in a row.

I didn't actually play much...I pretty much have zero frisbee skills. However, I do contribute to the team in one very important way. I provide the cheer.



(You can see us debate "Pork Chop Sandwiches", "Body Massage" and "Money Shot")

See, good things can come from wasting time on The Wolf Web, downloading deviant videos such as these:

(EVERYONE MARVEL AT MY NEW BATTLESTAR GALACTICA USER ICON)

Seems last night's post prompted a discussion on "Beer Pong". I should note that I have a few questions regarding the nomenclature of this sport.

renewedme  made several astute observations on the contributions of women to the sport of beer pong. But oddly enough, she referred to the game as "Beer Pong", and not as "Beirut" as it is alternatively known. According to this map, found in the difinitive volume "The CollegeHumor Guide to College: Selling Kidneys for Beer Money, Sleeping with Your Professors, Majoring in Communications, and Other Really Good Ideas, one should note that West Virginia is clearly in the "Beirut" forum. As demonstrated:



That being said, aviendha1979  might be able to tell us what students in the American University of Beirut refer to this game as.  Inquiring minds need to know.  Much as the US engaged in Ping Pong Diplomacy during the Cold War, I think that perhaps in this day and age, I could establish good diplomatic relations in the Arab World by Beer Pong Diplomacy.  Or Beirut.  Whatever.

(As an ancient Vulcan proverb said:  Only Crispin Burke can go to Beirut.  I mean, I need to do it for World Peace)

Surprisingly, I didn't come up with this one.

One of the teams on the field next to us, after breaking their huddle, would sound off with their team cheer...a war cry that exudes confidence and victory...

...LEEROY JENKINS!!!

(I'm upset because my team has a couple of Leeroy Jenkins fans, including me)