9/28/11
Oooooh, suspense.
9/29/11
A field goal wins it, that’s your input Bob? Thanks, Captain Obvious, but Aldo Cella can’t hit the broad side of a barn. Too bad we didn’t bother to find a better kicker, and also one with a name that isn’t completely ridiculous.
9/30/11
Look at that dejected Mudlark!
Look at all the head room in that bus!
Look at the beginning of that gay porn!
10/1/11
“Goin’ out for a run, Mom. I’m checking myself for signs of a concussion.”
“Have fun, son.”
Another highlight in Milford parenting.
Hey, check that! It’s, um, something. (Yeah, it’s Brody “the Toe” Abro, booting leather on a Sunday. I hope that kid doesn’t have a heart defect.)
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about 1 minute after I posted, that thread ended and this one began…………sooooooooooooo………….I’ll try again….
Brody is a football savant. He has the social skills of someone raised in a cave and the intellectual agility of a small soap dish……but he can kick an 80 yard field goal. In a couple years he’ll be a walkon at Milford State. Then on to the pros and eventually prison when he stabs someone in a nightclub that makes a comment about his “My little pony” lunchbox.
Comment by Knoxy — October 2, 2011 @ 7:22 am
hey gil you drunk if the guy cant make a fieldgoal from the twelve . how did he get on the team to begin with.also whos drinking that beer in the back of the bus on 9/30 i guess with all that extra headroom gil cant smell it.one more point i wonder where deke davey sits on the bus or does he have to take a cab home
Comment by mr12ozcan — October 2, 2011 @ 10:26 am
Aldo! Chill a Cella!
Comment by Moon Mullins — October 2, 2011 @ 10:37 am
Hey Gil, if you’d bothered to attend any of the team’s summer practices, you would have known that you needed a better kicker before the season. And you could’ve done what any high-school coach would have done: put out an open call for kickers. And you would’ve found Brody before your incompetence caused a losing streak.
Yeah, Fire Gil Thorp!
And good thinking, Chip Vicious. You might have a concussion, so you’ll pound around the track for a while. You’ll either get woozy and disoriented, do a faceplant into the goalpost, and wind up puking on the goal line, or you’ll be okay. Hey, it’s your future.
Comment by jvwalt — October 2, 2011 @ 10:57 am
“Field goal wins it.” “We’ve got to find a better kicker.” Way to earn your salary, Kaz!
Comment by Scott de B. — October 2, 2011 @ 11:32 am
I admit it, I am impressed with my fellow cyberresidents of Milford. The plot ideas tossed out just in the past couple of days are uncommonly promising. The new kicker is autistic and his teammates learn about the condition and slap up some idiot from Goshen who refers to him as “that retard kicker.” OR the new kicker, whose family home schools him in order to protect him from those ungodly kids at Milford HS, learns that associating with teammates of other backgrounds does not bring about a lightning strike. But we have already found out why Chip Vicious suffered that concussion, so that he and Miles can scoop the coaches by bringing in a kid who can actually kick. But it worries me that this is all happening so early in the season, which in Milford will run into January.
Comment by vaganova — October 2, 2011 @ 1:35 pm
Hey, Kaz – speak up! Aldo, sitting two rows behind you, didn’t quite hear you dissing him in front of the entire team on the bus.
Comment by Milfordian — October 2, 2011 @ 2:33 pm
… and we’ll learn that Brody Abro also plays a mean banjo so Slim Chance will have him quit the team – after 1st kicking the winning pts in three games straight – to be in his band.
Comment by semperfi4evr — October 2, 2011 @ 4:46 pm
Wow, Semper, that’s good…
Comment by vaganova — October 2, 2011 @ 6:44 pm
Knoxy – I read ya. No worries. I’ll repeat what I said too – Blame it on the vaganova.
Comment by Rob — October 2, 2011 @ 6:46 pm
Help us, Marjie Ducey, you’re our only hope. Save us from this stinkpile of a plot.
Comment by Dood — October 3, 2011 @ 12:38 pm
I’ve never played Quarterback before, but is cupping your mouth to says “yoo-hoo” to your receiver AFTER you throw to him a proper throwing technique?
Comment by Marty Moon Fan Club — October 3, 2011 @ 3:24 pm
Everything happens to me! Now Rob is blaming me for things that haven’t even happened yet. I’m going to shut up and sit over here with Dood in hopes that Marjie Ducey shows up before long.
Comment by vaganova — October 3, 2011 @ 4:36 pm
Best wishes to Milford HS. Maybe these lads have found their blue-chipper who can kick for miles, both on a quiet morning and when a defense is bearing down at you. If we look around at various high school football results, we would see that making field goals, or extra points for that matter, is not a given for many teams. My brother once “lost” a game for our school. They were down 16 – 14 and sent him out for a 35-yard field goal. It went over the post, referee called it no good, it could have just as easily been called good. He is in his 50s now and still hears about that. No one says we lost because we went for one point after our touchdowns and they went for two. If Milford High School twice had to stop a drive to try a field goal, maybe they need a better fullback.
Comment by Mudlarks Fan — October 4, 2011 @ 7:41 am
No matter what the story is behind the Mudlarks apparent new kicker, it can’t top this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/sports/homecoming-queen-and-winning-field-goal-on-same-night.html?ref=sports
Brianna Amat is my kinda girl…
Comment by vaganova — October 4, 2011 @ 4:01 pm
I think whoever called Brody’s developmental issues (Dale? vaganova?) hit the ball on the nose.
In the last two days’ strips Brody doesn’t make eye contact with Chip or Miles. Back in the 8/29 strip Brody’s mom tells him to “come back before thee cows come home!” Brody replies “What cows?” The lack of eye contact, the obsession with repetitive activity and the inability to detect and interpret figures of speech are some characteristics of people on the autism spectrum.
It’ll be interesting to see how Rubin takes Brody from obsessively kicking off a tee on an empty junior high field to kicking with a holder (and opponents trying to block his kick) in a game situation in front of a crowd. That is, if we can get past the wacky sound effects, bizarre angles, and Marty blather.
Comment by delvaldawg — October 5, 2011 @ 9:12 am
*the cows come home
Comment by delvaldawg — October 5, 2011 @ 9:12 am
I like Marty blather. You see, he’s crash-landed on earth and because of suffering first contact with Gil and Milford High School athletics, he can only communicate in sports metaphors.
So, when Marty tells Gil, “The depth chart looks pretty thin,” he’s actually saying, “I think reversing the polarity of my neutron drive will result in a successful launch of my pressbox/starship.”
Gil’s response, though, “I’d rather focus on what we do have, Marty,” throws him off, once again thwarting a return to his home planet.
Or Marty’s completely imagining things from the basement lair of his mom’s house. Either one works.
Comment by Dood — October 5, 2011 @ 10:31 am
Good calls, Delvaldawg. I have two friends with Asperger syndrome, and Brody, from what we have seen so far, may too. Some investigators prefer to call it “autism spectrum disorder,” others identify it as a separate condition. But Delvaldawg asks all the right questions about being a member of a team, facing opponents, dealing with pressure. Or not. Many “Aspies” are poor at interpreting interpersonal signals and might not even sense pressure, and another common characteristic, a resistance to physical proximity to others, might be a problem in a football player too. So we’ll see.
Comment by vaganova — October 5, 2011 @ 5:30 pm
Brianna Amat, Brody Abro…. synchronicity or what???
Comment by semperfi4evr — October 5, 2011 @ 6:15 pm
[...] he can still hear you, Kaz.” “Yeah I know. I tell him he sucks every time he walks by. And yell it on the team bus. Now I’m sad he won’t be around for me to discourage on a daily basis. Wonder why he [...]
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