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BGP: We Came. We Saw, We Went Home
Tom Szczerbowski
Nov 13, 2002

This game may have lacked the offensive fireworks of Week 6 and the grudging intensity of Week 5 when it seemed everyone on both teams was getting cross-eyed with rage over claims of non calls and wrong calls, but Week 7’s game nonetheless featured a banal stomping by the IP Stack on BGP’s hole-laden defense. The 2002 season has been a Hindenburg-sized catastrophe for the 1-6 BGPers, whose captain Pablo Frank went on record saying, “Things would have to improve dramatically for us just to suck!” Frank hasn’t said much in two weeks, but even when he speaks he still doesn’t seem to say very much. Changes in the BGP front office and locker room have been slow to happen, and until they do, BGP will remain the last refuge of the shoddy and second-rate.

Defensively, BGP tried out a new soft-zone approach which, according to experts, resembled Stonehenge: they didn’t move very much, and no one could quite figure out why they were positioned the way they were. In Week 6, there was better defense exhibited at Pearl Harbor as the Stack wore out the scoreboard with 7 TDs. However, in Week 7 the BGPers can take credit for holding the explosive Stack to only 4 TDs, so maybe their newfound zone strategy did pay marginal dividends.

Offensively, BGP QB moved the ball well in the early going and they jumped out to an early 1-0 lead on a rare TD by Pablo Frank. On one strange play, before BGP could snap the ball, all its players girlishly giggled out loud in unison prompting John Madden, in a rare Tuesday edition of Monday Night Football, to grab the telestrator pen and start writing on the television screen the words “NOT GONNA WORK.” He was right. For the remainder of the game, BGP made too many miscues, dropped too many balls, and did a poor job handling and returning kickoffs to have much of a chance at victory. It wasn’t necessarily the passionate agility of Paul Bertels or the laser-precision-guided strikes of Paul McRae or the surehandedness of Tom Szczerbowski or the all-around solid play of Sean Hope(who managed an inteception) or the clutch defense by Kirk Ireland and Don MacDonald that had won the game for the Stack as much as it was the inability to finish plays and drives by the Ciancibello-led BGP. For his part, Ciancibello worked quickly and was effective putting the ball where he had to, but his teammates let him down on many occasions, which has been an old refrain for the BGP crew this season.

This contest will be remembered as a snoozefest of sorts, a veritable bore of a game, which lacked the concussive passion of past weeks when, for instance, the scrappy McRae eviscerated Ciancibello on one occasion, although newcomer Dwayne did lay a hellbent block on the unsuspecting Szczerbowski in Week 7. That was pretty much all the contact in Week 7, to which the players did football a disservice: a brutish, physical game by its very nature, yesterday’s game was played with hardly the same fire in the players’ Darwinian underbellies. Perhaps this was one reason why McRae only accounted for 4 TD strikes. He is known for being at his best when someone has lit a burr under his saddle. The only other time the Stack had such a weak offensive performance was in their Week 3 loss when the usually combative McRae rounded up his troops and gayly roused the following pathetic message, “Listen you guys, it’s not about whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. So let’s have fun.” Experts are predicting that if McRae doesn’t develop more Ray Lewis-like aggression again, which has dimmed and shone, the Stack’s winning ways may be in jeopardy. To his credit, BGP’s Frank was emotionally fired up for this game after missing last week when undergoing surgery for gonorrhea. He blasted the rough play of Szczerbowski and tried to ignite a war of words in a pre-game interview with these bellicose comments: “I often wondered what I’d do if I were in a room with bin Laden, Saddam, and Szczerbowski, and had a gun with only two bullets – shoot Szczerbowski twice!”

Szczerbowski returned the favour by scoring two TDs. Bertels did the same and the Stack cruised to a 4-1 win.

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