'Twas the Night Before Kickoff
 

'Twas the Night Before Kickoff
or An Account of a Visit from Dean
by George A. Wallace, III

'Twas the night before Kickoff, and all through the pad
I alone was still stirring. No sleep to be had.
Speculations abound: wild guesses everywhere.
But the secret of The Game had been handled with care.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of Dean and Woodie danced through my head.
To my six-week absence my wife had resigned.
She slept while I wrestled with transmission designs.

When from my garage there arose such a clatter
That I knew it could only result from a large mass of matter
Or a small mass traveling at high velocity
Either way it aroused my curiosity.

I arrived at the scene with the utmost of haste
Only to find my garage lain in waste.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But iBOTs, and Segways and nine engineers!

Their leader wasn't a big man, but he was spry and lean.
I knew in a moment that that his name was Dean.
When this man spoke, the others, they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

"Now, Baker! now, Beatty! now, Lavery and Leung!
On, Morella! on, Martus! on, Johnson and Vielkind-Neun!
Get this place back in order! Get those tools on the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As I drew away and was turning around,
Then towards me Dean Kamen came with a bound.
He was dressed in floppies from feet to chin!
And he wore on his head a Steralite bin.

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon let me know I had nothing to dread;
Then he joined all his helpers, as they went straight to work,
They repaired my garage; then turned with a jerk.

All in one motion they mounted thier steeds,
And away he led them with such grace and speed,
But I heard him exclaim to all Nerds and Geeks,
"Get some sleep, FIRST-a-holics! You ship in six weeks!"

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Delightful George absolutely delightful. I see you have the creative energies flowing in anticipation of the game. Thank you for posting this where the rest of us can read it. :D

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Incredible =)

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Wow thats excellent :) Thanks for posting it!

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that was awesome

absolutely awesome.

kinda speaks the truth
mind if i send it to all my coaches.


ehh the heck with it i'm sending it anyway

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awesome ... thanks for the laugh !!

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5:30AM...

And so it begins....

See you in Manch-Vegas.
Dress warm people.

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Wow. Incredible.

That having been said..

Happy kickoff, everyone!

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5:16 am. Good morning, Manchester.

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Great job, George. :)

Only a day left until kickoff...

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Great Job George

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"To my six-week absence my wife had resigned.
She slept while I wrestled with transmission designs."


Hey buddy, did you get married since the Rodeo?
I thought the competition WAS your better half.


I see at the bottom of the page for similar threads, "Favorite Michael Jackson Songs". Wazzup with that? Does this poem come with music and choreography?

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Awesome.

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Very cute! Now I'm going to go off and mutter something about "six weeks... it's just six weeks... I can survive six weeks..."

Heidi

<===========>
More muttering to come, I'm sure.

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Amazing! What a great note to start the season with! :D

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I love it! that was great, lightened the mood a bit as I prepare mentally for the weeks ahead. I watched the documentary on The Science Channel and that definately finished getting me fully pumped for kickoff.

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This wasn't autobiographical. I wrote it from the point of view of your average FIRST engineer.

I'm glad everyone is enjoying it. Thank you for all the kind words.

Just one more day...

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a stragitest, a tweener, a mentor, and now a pOet. Go George

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Fantastic - Good thing you got that out of the way before Saturday. Now we know what you've been doing during the off season!
You made my day - Great job

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I thought you reminded me of someone!

Weird AL!

more FIRST poety/songs here:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=22190

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Nice poem, George...

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See, there's something I want to say. But I've already said it as you can see in George's profile.... but, yea, I'll repeat it here anyhow... cause it fits this perfectly.

"I knew there was a reason why you were the man."
- Mike Walker

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nice, nice, and i thought i hat far too much free time...yup, i think that there is someone that needs a girlfriend more than i do... very creative though, kudos for the rymes

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george u continually just amaze me, not only are you a math teacher but you can write poetry that is B-E-Autiful

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lol pretty good for a math teacher!

you Rock george see you at UCF

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That's awesome. That's really, really awesome. Thank you.