So everyone from the Bryan Bears forgets to block the 6′ 9″ guy that the narrator reminds us yet again is 6′ 9″ (or um, 6-dash-9?) and just made a huge play. Did we mention he’s 6′ 9″? Records indicate that it’s only been mentioned six times so far this season. This allows Jeff to bludgeon the quarterback to death with his giant fists o’ rage. (He took some lessons from Cully.) He punches the corpse of poor #11 for about fifteen minutes before anyone notices a 6′9″ (6-9! 6-9! 6-9!*) fellow is even on the field.
His teammates congratulate him by sending over Rob Schneider to issue him some awesomely thought-out nicknames, and haze him by placing a mummy’s hand on his right shoulder.
*Jeff Ponczak is six feet, nine inches tall. (6-9! 6-9! 6-9!) For more information on 6-9, please consult the internet.
Gee this is new (not). Nearly unintelligible non-sequiters to amp up the action (not).
So he’s what… oh yeah 6-9 as I remember it now. Sheeeessssshhhh.
Love the Rob Schneider reference. Oh so dead on. Milford, GO!
Comment by SemperFi4evr — September 24, 2008 @ 9:22 am
Sackodog. How awesome of a nickname is that. I guess he could have chose ‘6-9 SackMaster’ or ‘6-9 SackoMan!’ But none of that is as clever or as good as the Sackodog. Milford continues to stay hip with cool nicknames.
Comment by Sam — September 24, 2008 @ 9:28 am
Not to spoil the fun too much, but is that really a sack?
The QB threw the pass; he just happened to be the one who recovered it after it was blocked.
Comment by dale — September 24, 2008 @ 9:52 am
What is Milford and this crazy nicknames???? Sackdog? Sacko? Sackmaster? 6-9? Then there’s Roger’s nickname “Rajah” and Curley Horse’s “A-Train”. But then maybe they’re not nicknames, but aliases.
Comment by Regina — September 24, 2008 @ 9:53 am
Not a sack. Merely a tackle for a loss after a completed pass (to himself) by the QB. So you can put your sorrys in a sack, mister…
Comment by Smed — September 24, 2008 @ 10:03 am
Rob Schneider was the first thing I thought of when I read today’s strip, too. JA-son. Ja-SON! The Jasinator! Jasarama! Snark-in’ the COM-ics!
Wait, how tall is Jeff Ponzcak?
Comment by bees on pie — September 24, 2008 @ 10:07 am
Oh, dear. Oh, my. Oh, wow. Not since “Ease up, friend!” have I been so delighted by the dialogue of this strip. Let me just type it out, in all its glory:
“Sacko! What a play! Sackodog!”
From now on, any time I want to congratulate anyone on anything, they are being called either “Sacko” or “Sackodog.”
Comment by Cash — September 24, 2008 @ 10:19 am
I think 6-9 is Jeff’s given name. Jeff is his middle name.
Comment by Scott de B. — September 24, 2008 @ 10:24 am
Scott is right — 6-9 is his name. It says Six Nine Jeff Ponczak on his birth certificate. (Just like “LG Howard Gourwitz.”) It’s a damn good thing he grew up to be 6 foot 9 inches tall. If he was 5′ 11″, he’d be the laughingstock of the town, rather than the Socialist Realist People’s Hero he is in panel 3.
Comment by johnw — September 24, 2008 @ 10:30 am
I’m going to adopt the biggest dog I can find (with any luck, he’ll be 6-9) and name him “Sackodog”!
No I’m not; that’s a stupid name. I’ll name the dog “Mentok,” and just continue mocking Jeff Ponczak, who’s 6-9. I think. I’d better go back and check.
Comment by jules — September 24, 2008 @ 10:31 am
Panel 2: so Six Nine Jeff Ponczak is either taunting the QB after the fact–in which case he should be hit up for a 15-yarder for Unsportsmanlike Conduct–or the QB just fell down of his own accord. Alrighty then.
Also, I’ve decided, in honor of Jeff’s apparently given name, to change my posting handle a bit for the duration of his tenure in this comic.
Yes, I’m short. :(
Comment by 5-4 Emptyeye — September 24, 2008 @ 10:41 am
Haha, shortie!
Takehomeasack, sackrayblew, sackreligious, flamin’sacko’dogcrap!
Scouting report: Jeff Ponczak, 6′9″, throws right, pummels left.
Comment by 5-5 Ned Ryerson — September 24, 2008 @ 10:58 am
Yikes – that mummy hand even has a raptor talon growing out of it! Heads up,
Six-nine Sackodude!!
Comment by 5-7 Gil'sBarber — September 24, 2008 @ 11:18 am
It looks like 6-9 Sackorino is kicking the QB to death, a la Don King.
And while I’m no 6-9 Sackodog Sackmaster “Jeff” “The Ponz” Ponczak, it looks like I’m currently the tallest poster on here! Woo-hoo!
Comment by 5-10 sourbelly — September 24, 2008 @ 11:40 am
I have another theory about the constant use of 6′9″ that involves some rather sophomoric humor. 69! 69! 69!!!
Comment by The Big B — September 24, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
I’m pretty sure that the hand in panel 3 actually belongs to Spider-Man, who’s swooping in to bring Sackodog to justice after his brutal assault of the quarterback. Seriously, I’m quite certain that he’s laying the boots to the poor guy in panel 2 there. Best that Spidey brings him in now instead of letting 6-9 mature into a supervillian. He’s already got a freakish body, criminal tendencies, a number of nicknames, henchmen who worship him, and he stares into the heavens in a truly maniacal fashion. All he needs is for his bizarrely-costumed girlfriend to make him a costume of his own, and there’ll be no stopping him.
Comment by D/N — September 24, 2008 @ 12:13 pm
What the HELL is wrong with Jeff’s face?
Comment by Catbus — September 24, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
Nice job, blanco nino.
Your ass just got ssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaccccckkkkkkeeeeddddd.
Comment by El Santo — September 24, 2008 @ 12:29 pm
Emptyeye, you and me both.
Damn you, Six Nine Jeff! You’re nearly a foot and a half taller than I am! But I’ll bet I have nicer legs.
Comment by 5-4 jules — September 24, 2008 @ 12:50 pm
Everyone I talk to from this moment on will be referred to as Sackodog, Sackmasta, Sacktactularific, or any other variation on the word “sack”. Balzac, maybe.
Comment by K.T. — September 24, 2008 @ 2:08 pm
17: Personally, I think Sackoman is bleeding from the scalp. Not from football, though. His mighty frame brushes the heavens, and he banged his head on Heaven’s Gate.
I mean, he is 6-9.
Comment by 6-1 Lomion — September 24, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
Yeah, Moe, that strip sure did sack today. It just plain sacked! I’ve seen strips sack before, but this was the sackiest bunch of sacks that ever sacked!
Comment by Mooch — September 24, 2008 @ 2:27 pm
For those who do not know…Jeff Ponczak was the real name of a regular long-time Gil Thorp reader. He had an online nickname of Sackodog.
He passed away this past summer. Long before his time.
So this strip is a tribute to him.
Comment by Online Friend of Sackodog — September 24, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
[...] actually a part of his name. So in honor of this, well, take a look at how I signed comment #11 of today’s entry, then look at the signatures of the next 4 or so comments. This amuses me. Posted by emptyeye / [...]
Pingback by I'm a Trendsetter! Sort Of.... | Emptyeye — September 24, 2008 @ 4:57 pm
Marfan Syndrome… Yes, that was the subject of a very l-o-n-g melodrama ten or fifteen years ago. For those who hadn’t yet become weirdly addicted to Milford, the boy patient explained to Gil early on that Marfan’s was “the disease that killed Lincoln,” and nobody got around to bringing up John Wilkes Booth. But of course most of them didn’t remember Lincoln, because not only were they not as tall as I am (did I mention I’m 6-4?) they were not nearly as old. But in short the present lunacy of the strip is not new– the sainted Jack Berrill could screw things up at an impressive rate too.
Comment by vaganova — September 24, 2008 @ 7:36 pm
Vaganova,
Your comment might be amusing if it were accurate. Jack Berrill didn’t write the Marfan storyline. It was written by Jerry Jenkins. Apparently uninformed posters such as yourself can screw tings up at an impressive rate too.
MB
Comment by myronbooth — September 25, 2008 @ 5:12 am
Do you think the Milford stadium (yes, I know it has a formal name involving some retired and/or dead principal, but I cannot recall it at the moment) is technologically advanced enough to play music clips after a big play?
All the sack talk made me think that closing segment from AC/DC’s “Big Balls” where the group chnats “Ballsacker, Ballsacker, Ballsacker . . . ” would work great for the 6′ 9″ Ponzie.
Also, it reminded of my fav. Pricipal Skinner line, “Nibbles, chew through my ballsack.”
Comment by Dr. "Eat More Cheddar and Drink More Pabst," at 6' 0" aka Gil's Dietician — September 25, 2008 @ 5:24 am
SackODogCrap?
Comment by Thorpnotized — September 25, 2008 @ 7:40 am
Myronbooth corrects me on the Marfan storyline. His tone might be a little harsh but I’m sure he’s right. Glad to find someone else has been paying closer attention over the years than I have.
Comment by vaganova — September 25, 2008 @ 4:25 pm