Tigerbomb: Hoopfest 2009

Hoopfest 2009 was fun. It was year 12 or 13 for Dennis (he started in 1997, but I think he skipped a year in there??). Tigerbomb as a team is in about it's 10th year. Tigerbomb is (l to r, below) Dennis, John, Leo and Sean.
It was not as exciting as last year, where they took second place in their bracket to a VERY good team. It was a hard bracket this year. Their first game was against a team (P Town Connection) that took first place in their bracket last year. They lost to them and and to their next opponent - close games and totally hard fought.

Dennis (white shirt, above) played hard
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The second game they lost in the most physical and confrontational game in all of Tigerbomb Hoopfest history. One of the guys on the team was just really, really angry and seemed to want to fight. Tigerbomb are a nice group of guys - they typically don't call fouls. When this team started calling fouls from the first play, it wasn't a good sign. I get stressed out and can't watch close games. In addition, I could sense the confrontation. I'm glad I left. Caver ended up having a "discussion" with the idiot...Yes. Sounds lame that a wife got involved, but like she said - as a human being, you can't see that go on and not say anything.

Finn and Jill
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Otherwise, the guys didn't do great - ended up in the "Loser Bracket" and didn't finish well there either. Like we told Ashe - they always go there to play hard, but never expect anything. They won one year and they came in second last year. Every other year - it's been all over the map.

Another funny story was when a big, black guy Dennis was guarding told Dennis to take it easy on him because "I'm old." Dennis said: "I'm old, too. How old are you?" He said "40". Dennis laughed and so did the other guy when Dennis told the guy that he was 46!!

Fun, fun. We had a combined birthday party for Elaine (75!!) and Dennis while we were there. More to come on that.

Ashe, Tom, Tucker, Finn, Cade, Jill in front
This montage shows Ashe "not hitting" Jill. ;)