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Two season-ending injuries just in time for the team to make a final playoff push. What to do? click for bigger Keep up the good fight, that’s what. I originally wanted to caption this “put a ring on it,” but that got a little too footieslash with the photo. Took me a while to figure [...]

Remember this thing from last September? Those two banners finally debuted this evening.

Entirely too many to post here, so just go to the gallery. Or go to Magpie’s gallery, which is much nicer. Or the team’s. The project this year was the entire roster, plus all three coaches, the team director, the general manager, the mascot, the logo, and the trophy we picked up in August. 35 [...]

For the 2008 season, it was clear we had to make some new banners. The ones we did for 2005 held up remarkably well, but it was time to retire most of them, as they referenced players no longer on the team, like Noonan. (Exception: We decided to keep the huge blue graffiti style one, [...]

Full banner reads “NAVY SINCE 1996.” There was a fourth banner sent to that game–though neither Magpie nor I could make it to the stadium last night–reading “REAL TEAMS DON’T CHANGE COLORS.” It got hung up right behind the Galaxy bench, and someone came to remove it right before the Galaxy benchwarmers came out, which [...]

Of course not. Twellman, unlike Beckham, scored this evening.

This one has been in the works since the game in Hartford in August, 2005. The day after that game, I was at work, which, at the time, was the Mass Historical Society. A coworker was arranging World War I posters, and I noticed this one, done by Howard Chandler Christy in 1917. Liberty’s placing [...]

Every once in a while you need reassurance that people want you around—Taylor Twellman, 5/6/06