Saturday, June 7, 2008

Ducks, vs. Warriors Monday, 9pm, Spring View Field

The Warriors have been in existence since 2004, they played the 2003 season as the Piranhas. That first season, the Ducks were 6-9 in the regular season, and 3-1 vs. the Piranhas.

It was during the 2003 season that Craig Boley took over as league president. It is due in large part to his hard work during the first two years of the Pittsburgh NABA that the league is still in existence. So in many ways he is...
Along with the Black Sox, with whom the Ducks engaged in a bench-clearing brawl in the final regular season game of the 2003 campaign- when the Sox were still the Stampeders, the Warriors are the Ducks oldest rivals. But when the league expanded and realigned, the blood feud waned when the Warriors and Ducks found themselves in different divisions. Interesting that Boley would align the league to minimize Warriors Ducks games, eh?

I'll expand on the history of Ducks vs. Warriors in the days leading up to Monday's game. For now I'll leave you with this: the Warriors are such a renowned team, they inspired Richard Greenberg's Broadway hit, Take Me Out. It is a heart warming taled based on the Warriors 2005 Championship season. Click on the picture below for a synopsis of the play.


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