Date: 2026-01-30 AO: Ultimate Q: MARTA , PAX: Yeti, Shank, Smothered, Wu Tang is for the children, MARTA, Spikeball, Situation, Paris, JH, Crawdad, David Baker, Biden, Aoli, Peaches, Pinkeye, Bullystick FNGs: None COUNT: 16 Warmup: 10x SSH
The Thang: On the onset, one thing was clear. The teams were the most even they’d been in weeks pitting red vs. yellow. The match started at normal time as the LAX folks are too soft to practice in sub-freezing temperatures – to our benefit. I expect that Yeti will start calling them the marshmellow team on the morning announcements. Even the PAX at Joust looked a little cold and sparse – but I digress.
The game traded points back and forth with the steady hand, throws, and flawless leadership of Smothered keeping red in the game methodically working the disc down the field. But it was for naught, tight defense by Yeti and @aoli who were everywhere made up for the errant throws of yellow. Points traded back and forth until somewhere around 6-7 or 7-7. A timely switch pushed Paris to the sideline who made a questionable call for a score. @bullystick called him out with the best perspective from the sideline to return the disc to the thrower (Spikeball). Paris was tightly guarded and not able to come up with the circus catch in the end… the disc never lies. At that point, yellow pulled away with a pair of breaks only to have red tie at 10s after @flywithme departed the field for what I suspect was pharmaceutical intervention.
In the end, the defense of yellow prevailed and the final nail in the coffin was the midfield huck to @aoli by MARTA for the score. Leaderless (without the beloved commish), red pleaded to extend the game to 6:20, only to provide the most half hearted effort on the ensuing possession. Yellow 13 to Red 10.
The main story of the game was clearly @aoli who most likely scored 8 of the 13 yellow goals, despite not doing crossfit. His post game press conference made ESPN and can be seen here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozGNfNsnX6g. Other notable notables included post-game lamentations of Brad Panovich stealing the hearts of every young wife and mother.. and the lack of school due to “cold weather”.
Yellow: 13 Shank Yeti Bullystick Marta Aioli Peaches Pink Eye Peanut
Red: 10 Smothered Sitch Spikeball Flywithme Paris Crawdad Biden Wutang
CoT: Pink Eye takes us out