The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, January 23, 1986, Page Page 17, Image 17
Thursday, January 23, 1986 Intramural in season's For the past few weeks most of the sports world has waited with eager anticipation for Super Bowl XX. They also waded, with less anticipation, through a glut of Super Bowl news sto ries, so I won't write another one. Tliosc of us who can't find a bookie wlin hasn't been busted have turned our attention to a popular campus version. The highlight of the sports season to us is, of course, intramural basketball, which started this week. Judging from the large number of !cams participating this year it is hloius that intramural basketball is Irjmiiely a campus favorite. Many of us s.n iil'ice our rigorous study habits one ,mhl a week to engage in this athletic endeavor. I play, along with six fellow Daily V'braskan staff members, for the Los ( ojunt's (irandes, CP Bill j( Allen Why Cojones?, we've been asked? It's a strange and fascinating sloiy. One night, while sitting around on my pat io drinking tequila from empty Camp bell's soup cans (I'm a fan of Andy Warhol), we revealed to each other that as children we all wanted to be mar auding Spanish conquistadors. Imagine that, seven guys from different geogra phical, cultural and religious back grounds all wanting to rape and pillage small villages in their youth. Since all of us have flunked Spanish at one time or another we're not quite sure what our team name means. How ever, we have narrowed it down to large boxes, a dozen eggs or big testicles. We'd appreciate help from Spanish majors. Last year the Cojones won one game. The team we beat had a point guard who looked like "Sat urday Night Live's" Larry Bud Melman. There is no indica tion this year will be an improvement since we have not practiced since last season's finale. That's why the luckiest team in intramural basketball this week is the dreaded Phil's Team. They are our first opponent in this young, still hopeful season. Against them we will test our manhood, our dreams, and how many fouls we can get away with. The main losers vs. first foaske test is whether we can all run up and down the court for an entire game. I called the captain of Phil's Team, the mythical Greg Feldman. He wasn't home, but his roommate and team mate, Brian Varvel, was. I wanted to know just what kind of team we would face at 7 p.m. tonight in the hallowed arena of the Men's Physi cal Education building, There is Ho admission fee because no one wants to watch the fiasco anyway, No one, it turns out, on Phil's Team is named Phil. The illusive and myster ious Captain llivg came up with the name, No one knows how or why. The legendary Greg remains a mystery to the Cojones. Phil's Team is tall and (days an inside-oriented game, Brian said. Which is fine with us. We're short, but like to play inside, too. It's dark and cold out side this time of year and finding a lighted outside court is bard anyway, These guys did not have a team last year so, unlike us, they don't know how bad they really are. W e do have one major advantage over Phil's Team. They don't have team nicknames. We do, The Cojones are David "Smooth as Cream" Creamer, Mike 'Our Lad" Roil ley, Mark "Bongo" Davis, Greg "Slick" Kersten, Gene "The Slammin' Machine" Gentrup and Chris "Savage" Welseh. I'm, of course, called the 'Fridge. Brian said the unavailable Greg was the tallest player on their team. The tallest player on our team, "Savage," is the spitting image of Drago in "Rocky IV." When I told Savage he would be play ing Captain Greg, he quoted his stone faced hero from the popular movie; "If he dies, he dies." Brian is a graduate accounting stu dent from Hay Springs. He said mostly Phil's Team is playing for fun. So are we. And believe me, we're funny. Usu ally we only score while the other team is laughing at our last mistake. And like us, Phil's Team, Greg said, is just a bunch of friends getting together to play. That is the spirit of intramurals and the main reason I look forward to each season. The Cojones gave up dreams of winning the trophy after our first game last year, when the referee told us no, both teams staying at one end of the court and using the same goal would not make it easier for everyone. But we play every game like conquis- Daily Nebraskan Page 17 hil's ball NEE w J I Downtown buys used records, cassettes & compact discs. 217 No. 11th 477-6061 THE MICRO-REL COMBINA TION ENGINEERS... ...if you're ready for a challenging position accompanied by a high quality lifestyle, you owe it to yourself to consider the engineering opportunities with Micro-Rel in Phoenix. As a major division of a Fortune 500 Company, we supply the micro-electronics industry with custom IC's and Hybrids for many specialty applications. 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