Mon.-Thurs., April 25-28, 2022
The week started with a cool blast from the past in the form of an e-mail from an old friend Dan Spriesterbach.
Dan had received an e-mail from another of our old friends, Paul Marguglio, about having found an old photo in a box hidden away in his home for years apparently.
Dan wanted to know if any of us wanted a copy?
YOU BET!
University of Washington
Football Media Day
August, 1967
Standing from left to right: DB Dan Spriesterbach, RB Gary James, RB/OLB Tom Verti, RB Terry Newlin, C George Contreras and OT Paul Marguglio
Kneeling: Washington Huskies DB Coach Jack Friedman
The reason for this photo was our two common bonds.
The first is obvious as we were all part of the 1967 UW Husky football team.
The second is that all of us also played together on some excellent St. Francis H.S. Golden Knights' teams based in La Cañada-Flintridge, California.
The six players in this photo were all coached at St. Francis by the then Head Coach of the Golden Knights, none other than Jack Friedman.
Good times indeed from when we were all much younger.
Thank you Paul and Dan!
We picked up more orders for our donated, used football gear this week.
Italy's Catania Elephants were
shipped a box of 75 pants
A new contact for us, Lithuania's
Klaipėda Curonians received
these jerseys and . . .
. . . these pants and socks
Klaipėda is a Lithuanian city located on the Baltic Sea coast.
The Curonians were an ancient Baltic Sea tribe dating back to the 13th-Century who were noted for being fierce warriors, excellent sailors and accomplished pirates.
The official score sheet from last
Sunday's Varese Skorpions
Women's Flag Football Tournament
finally arrived
As stated in our last post, the Lady Skorpions are now 5-1 after competing in two of these tournaments this Spring. That 43-42 loss to the Milano Sirene hurts.
The Spanish LNFA Serie A Playoffs
will start on May 7th
I have, over the years, helped four different clubs that were part of this year's Spanish Serie A.
It all started for me on the Iberian Peninsula when I was the Head Coach of the Murcia Cobras in the Winter and Spring of 2015. The Cobras finished the 2022 season with a 2-6 record good for fourth place in the Serie A's Western Conference.
In 2016, I spent two months with Madrid's Osos Rivas coaching Offensive Line fundamentals and coaching the coaches at all levels of their program. This year the Osos are 8-0, Champions of the Serie A Western Conference and the Playoffs #1 seed.
In the Spring of 2021, I was the Analytics Coach for the L'Hospitalet Pioners who were the undefeated Champions of Serie B that campaign. The Pioners found the going in Serie A this Spring much tougher in notching a 2-6 record which translated into fifth place in the Serie A Eastern Conference.
This Spring, I have been serving as the Mallorca Voltors Analytics Coach. The Voltors' season has ended with a mark of 3-5 which meant a third place final standing in Serie A's Eastern Conference. The highlight of the Voltors' season was their 26-19 victory over the Eastern Conference Champion Barberà Rookies. It was the Rookies only loss of the regular season.
In the upcoming Serie A Playoff Semi-Finals the Osos Rivas (8-0), the Western Conference Champions, will host the traditional Spanish top dogs, the Badalona Dracs (6-2) who this year were the Eastern Confernce's second best club.
The other Semi-Final game sees the Barberà Rookies (7-1), the Eastern Conference Champions hosting the Western Conference's runner-up squad, the Las Rozas Black Demons (5-3).
Our old Swiss team, the Thun Tigers,
will be in action this weekend at
home against the Geneva Seahawks
in an SAFV League A contest
Currently the standings in Switzerland's top league look like this:
SAFV LEAGUE A
1T. Bern Grizzlies 4-0
1T. Colanda Broncos 4-0
3. Thun Tigers 2-2
4. Geneva Seahawks 1-3
5T. Basel Gladiators 0-2
5T. Zurich Renegades 0-2
7. Winterthur Warriors 0-3
On to Italy's DII schedule this coming weekend . . .
Only eight of the 12 DII clubs
have games, the first two on Saturday
and the last two on Sunday
Our beloved Skorpions kickoff at
5:00 a.m. California time on Saturday
It's being live streamed via Facebook. I'll being making a lot of coffee early this Saturday morning it would appear.
The Skorpions (3-1) beat the Frogs (1-3) 42-0 last Sunday and just need to avoid massive potential cockiness and also not looking past the Legnano eleven to their all important regular season finale on May 15th on the road against the 5-0 Bergamo Lions.
The Lions beat the Skorpions 31-28 on April 9th in Varese.
Do you want to win a bar bet anytime soon?
I'm betting that most people can not
name the leading single season passer
in San Francisco 49ers history
Probably not the Cleveland Browns or Chicago Bears pass yardage leading QBs either.
Hard to read, but the Baskin-Robbins
31 Flavors ice cream shop in Camarillo
now offers an Ube Coconut Swirl flavor
We fell in love with all sorts of Ube flavored delicacies in our recent trips to Maui. Ube is a delicious purple sweet potato from the Philippines.
I tried a taster and it wasn't bad, the problem was that my mind entered 31 Flavors craving Rocky Road.
There was no turning back at that point, maybe next time.
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