Broadview Hawks Football Club

Déjà Vu with Roos June 13th, 2010

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The Broadview Hawks took on the Etobicoke Kangaroos on what would be in the end, the best weather conditions for Round 5: a sunny Friday after work special vs. the thunderstorms or threat of thunderstorms on the Saturday. The start of the horn had the Hawks looking good: seemingly keeping the ball mostly in the Roos’ half of the field. Broadview was first on the scoreboard with a behind. Then, in what would be a repeated event throughout the game, Etobicoke came back moving the ball down the field to two or three open men and was in range to score a goal… which they did. But the Hawks would not go silently into that good night and answered in kind with a goal of their own. Hawks up by 1 point.

At approximately the 10 minute mark, there was what looked like a normal crash of bodies trying to get a mark in the Roos’s end. Two players went down and stayed down for awhile, one did not get up. In a bad collision and subsequent landing, Richie “Cyborg” Mintz received a compound fracture to his right leg. Yes, the good leg; he’ll be composed mostly of a hyper-alloy combat chassis underneath living human tissue if he keeps adding more metal to his body. As usual, the firefighters were on the scene first in case Mintzy needed to hydrate. After what seemed like an eternity, the ambulance arrived and whisked him away. By the images that were disseminated through the Hawks’ ever-flowing digital grapevine, just imagine a toy Gumby with the metal wire taken out of one of its legs. The latest report has him already recovering from the required operation and doing well. Not perhaps the best way to celebrate his 10 years with the Hawks, but I bet he’s got some great meds to go with his tinnies.

In order to beat twilight (no, not the incomprehensible Sheila emotional dribble that is now a movie franchise), the game was to be shortened to 15-minute quarters. And the stalemate continued: Roos score a goal, Hawks score a goal, Hawks up by one. It reminded this reporter of Rocky IV, where Sylvester Stallone was exchanging punches with Dolph Lundgren in a battle of attrition. Unfortunately, like the playoff game 2 years ago, it was the Roos who finally broke the stalemate halfway through the 3rd quarter and scored another goal before the Hawks could return in kind. And again this slashed the Hawks’ tires for the rest of the game as it did 2 years ago.

There was of course great plays throughout the game. Cody “Dryhump” Royle had some good marks and plays in the forward line as well as both the Brads and Anthony “Daisy Duck” Simpson. Kevin “Bridgy” Bridgman had a great hit in the backline, proving yet again that architects aren’t necessarily just good at drawing pretty pictures. Pablo “Taz” Willis and Afjal “Quicksilver” Mohammad played well with their regular high intensity. Those two are always players who are fun to watch on the field.

Blame it on winter hibernation weight that has yet to be put off or perhaps the distracting Zack Morris hairdo of the Roos’ full forward Emile Studham. Seriously, it’s very distracting. The Hawks unfortunately could not keep up their 1 point lead and were defeated by the Roos by several goals. The real litmus test for the Hawkers’ hopes to a premiership will be seen next week against last year’s premiership champions, the Eagles. Off the field, this reporter awaits the results of some off-track betting and to see whether muscle needs to be hired in order to collect.