Mack was a Running Back, and More Late-Breaking Football News

And another marvelous thing I found with the WayBack Machine was a webpage that, skipping the details, listed some of the high school football teams that the Lawndale Lions have played in their area, with the names and positions of some of the best players. The webpage is supposed to show Kevin Thompson's fantasy football team, which he staffed with people he apparently knew from the games he had played. However, the players, teams, and schools were also known to the sadistic student who programmed the game for Kevin, because Kevin used to torment him for being a nerd.

Without further ado, here are the (as far as we know) best high-school football players in and around Lawndale High School, plus their positions and teams.

• Theodore Wozniak (QB-Oakwood Taproots)
• Trevor Dinsmoor (WR-Briarwood Beefalo)
• Byron Spanky (WR-Eagleton Elephant Seals)
• Michael Jordan Mackenzie (RB-Lawndale Lions) AH-HA!
  
• Etan O'Malley (RB-Oakwood Taproots)
• Afolabi Obalade (TE-Lawrenceville Locusts)
• Kevin Thompson (QB-Lawndale Lions)
• Howie Scrapple (WR-Eagleton Elephant Seals)
• Brandon Balder (WR-Oakpine Native Americans)
• Bruno Wambolt (WR-Mo Udall High Marmosets)
• Al Alberdingk-Thijm (RB-Briarwood Beefalo)
• Bob Jones (RB-Lakeland Bichon Frises)
• Kyle Fant (RB-Oakwood Taproots)
• Lincoln Hwang (PK-Mo Udall High Marmosets)
• Simek Pletka (PK-Lawrenceville Locusts)

I sense a certain tongue-in-cheek quality to the list, but I see some people referenced here that we've heard of before: Mack (running back for the Lawndale Lions, plus captain I guess), and Teddy Wosniak, who is the QB for Oakwood. But wasn't Sam Stack the Oakwood QB? Maybe one replaced the other, who knows.

The demonic fantasy football game, which was computerized, also spit out this list of player injuries for Kevin, all written up by the sadistic programmer:

• Brendan Mulrooney (Lawrenceville) dislocated his shoulder while participating in an exuberant "high five." He is currently resting at home on a bunch of fluffy pillows.
• Theodore Wozniak (Oakwood) has recovered from a strained groin muscle which Brittany Taylor (Head Cheerleader of Lawndale) seemed to know an awful lot about. Hmmmm...
• Manu Breeze (Briarwood) is done for the year due to an outburst of Roid Rage, which left the rest of the squad with minor cuts and bruises. He is also suffering from liver damage, premature baldness, and shrunken testicles. Coincidence, I guess.
• Howie Scrapple (Eagleton) mistook the bleachers for a 7-man sled during practice. He was placed on injured reserve due to the fact that he now has a dent in his head.
• Ryan Tetherhooks (Oakpine) was sidelined when run over by a field stripper last Thursday. He will be out indefinitely with this like gigantic body cast with so much room you can sign no matter how big you write. Hear that, Taproots? Ha ha!
• Kevin Thompson (Lawndale) is currently nursing a sore facial cheek but is expected to play on Saturday. If I screw up again I'll have to get like a glass eye and join the Witness Rejection Program. [Kevin wrote the last line. He had told Brittany he was playing fantasy football, and she slapped him for fantasizing (about other girls, she assumed).]
  

Again, more tongue-in-cheek goodness from the game programmer, whose name is Todd K. Feichmann. We will return to Todd in a later posting. He's rather interesting.

And Brittany really is the head cheerleader for Lawndale, just as we'd thought!

Meet Sam Stack

We see and hear about Sam Stack only once, in "The Lab Brat" when Upchuck reveals that he has been spying on Brittany's love life and has the photo to prove it. Sam is the QB of Oakwood High's football team, the Taproots. It is tempting to make him as moronic as Kevin Thompson, but maybe he isn't.

Very little fanfic has included this one-shot character, but that could change. He certainly looks like a, um, man of action, so an adventurous tale could include him as an unexpected rival or ally.