National Champions

[Michael Palmer]

You all would appreciate this. The University of Vermont...I went to school there, 25 miles down the road...just won the National Championship in football...soccer over here.
An unseeded teem beat #2. #3, #7, and #13 to win the championship. They won so many matches in the run-up and playoffs
where they were behind by one goal and scored in the 80th minute to tie it up. Then to win the match in an overtime or penalty kicks.
What an awesome team...family. Little Vermont blows them all away. People were calling them the underdogs.
The coach said, "Just call us the Dogs'.
https://www.wcax.com/video/2024/12/17/uvm-mens-soccer-captures-national-championship/

 

[Erichalfbee]

Will you be wearing the T shirt to show the bees in the Spring?

 

[boywonder]

Hi Michael (and from me, humble to be conversing with a Beekeeping legend) ... but I feel that post is wasted on here.

In the UK, most Beekeepers are weird.

I'm sure that I am the only Beekeeper in the UK, who follows football/soccer. (Picture the incredulity when, during the World Cup, you rock-up to an apiary training session, whilst having the live-scores come through on your phone).

That said, possibly not all UK Beekeepers have woodpeckers living in their beards (though a beard-spotting competition I had with my son at a trade event might have suggested otherwise. Women included).

The reason I feel compelled to post is not only to let you know there is at least one of us interested in the University of Vermont's success.... But also because of your coaches comment.

It reminded me of the late 80s/early 90s, when (started by Manchester City - who, for some reason which eludes me, had a fanbase who adopted the banana), fans around the country started turning up in their droves with inflatables. Picture e.g. a terrace full of waving inflatable bananas (Man City) vs a terrace of waving inflatable Pink Panthers (Stoke)...

Well, one of the former managers of my club (Jimmy Frizzell) referred to us in a news interview as the "Yard-dogs" .... And the die was cast.

We (Oldham) were a relatively big club back then ... and out onto the terraces came inflatable dogs, in their hundreds, if not thousands.

Mostly forgotten now, but some recall - e.g.

Hoping to see you instigate a similar craze in Vermont. Maybe we can get a business going in inflatable dogs DM me.

Have a great Christmas