A slow morning here at Bethesda Bungalows with all the rain and the wind, so I thought we'd go a bit off topic and talk football and disc golf.
First off, big congrats to the Saints and Colts for getting into the Super Bowl. Tough to think of all my tortured Norwegian relatives in the Twin Cities area, with Favre throwing that interception at the end of regulation - uff da!
I watched the games up at Mark Razmik's house in Damascus, MD. Mark is one of our site-supervisors, a big sports lover and all around good guy. He just finished his basement bar area, and had half the town over for pulled pork sandwiches and lots of cold drinks. Thanks dude!
On Saturday, I went up to the Druid Hill Charity "Ice Bowl" Disc Golf Tournament up in Baltimore. I was joined by about 60 other disc golfers including Chad Collins (aka Heap Big Injun), who works with our renovation crew here at Bethesda Bungalows. In addition to being quite skilled in all kinds of construction, Chad can throw the living snot out of a disc.
The tourney was in a "triples" format, and I got teamed up with Paul, the Tourney Director, and another regular at Druid, Jon Hawes. It really helped to have guys so familiar with the course on my team. And it helped that I had my new glasses on - its amazing what you can do when you can see.
Anyway we finished just out of the money, due to a couple of missed short putts. I felt I had a darn good round, so Chad and I stuck around for another impromptu competitive round of "Best Disc". Let's just say Chad and I were ON FIRE and finished 8 under par. Oh yeah, disc golf is good.
We ended up raising a bunch of money for the local Food Bank, as did other Ice Bowls across the country. Thanks for putting it together, Paul!
And one last disc golf note, my friends Brian Cooke and Joel Provencher have renamed their company "Disc Outfitters", concentrating on more disc golf related merchandise. Looking forward to some new schwag boys.
Heres a pic of the gang. Update 3-15-10: The "old" guy leaning on the picnic table is Jim "No Spin" Myers, recent winner of the Grandmaster division at the Memorial Championship in Scottsdale AZ. Nice work.
