Roller Derby

On Saturday night we ventured out into the cold winter night in search of excitement.  We found the excitement we were looking for in the form of the Arch Rival Roller Girls.  Though no one in our unit had much knowledges of the history or regulations of Roller Derby we were quite pleased to experience this fun, fast paced, and at times befuddling sport.  We were a bit surprised to see the number of fans that turned out. There was a sell out crowd estimates topped 1,000 spectators (Mark thought 2500, so the jury's still out...speaking of jury, Steve has jury duty on Monday, fyi).  The venue was nice, the presentation of the sport was quite polished and included jeer leaders, mascots, and a very well done and helpful play by play.

The bout was a rematch of last year's championship between the M-80's and the Stunt Devils.  We ended up on the M-80's side of the rink and quickly adopted them as our Roller Derby team.  Unfortunately, the M-80's needed more than our support as the Stunt Devil's asserted their dominance part way through the first half.  The star of the game was Starry Starry Fight, a quick skater with exceptional balance, who scored 80 points. To put that in perspective that was over half of her team's total points (170) and eight points away from the 88 points the M-80's produced that evening.

All in all it was a fun evening which we capped off by heading to get some of St. Louis's best pizza.