The Ultimate Frisbee Team dropped trou, lost the season when Club Sports canned ’em. That’s my old school. Go Pantsless Ducks!
U of Oregon to Frisbee team: No pants, no season
PORTLAND, Ore. – In the world of intercollegiate Ultimate Frisbee, it’s ultimately not cool to go without pants. So said a student board that governs club sports at the University of Oregon when it ended a highly-ranked team’s season after five players shed their pants and underwear April 11 during sectional play at Oregon State University in Corvallis.
The squad had already been on probation since November for serving alcohol to minors and making way too much noise at a party to end last season, resulting in fines and citations. Now the team, known as EGO (Eugene Gentlemen’s Organization) is crying foul.
“We put on the longest shirts we had,” pleaded player Kevin Minderhout. “We have some jerseys that are pretty long.”
Minderhout said the team feels “the decision to end the team season was pretty heavy.”
Ultimate Frisbee, which is akin to flag football and is popular as a club sport at numerous universities and high schools, has rules but no referees. Players are responsible for their own foul calls and are to resolve their own disputes.
The sport is non-contact. Points are scored by completing a catch into the opponents’ end zone on a court measuring 40 by 70 yards. The Oregon team was considered No. 3 in the nation.
I got some flak about this from some of my coworkers on Thursday. They thought I should have been embarrassed or something. My comment was “is THAT all? No pants? Believe me, I’ve seen a LOT worse in Eugene.”
It is to “bwah!” I had to laugh at one of the details farther down in the article – apparently this bunch of EGO maniacs is notorious for loud parties and scandalous behaviour. It sounded so late-Seventies/early-Eighties (our era) that I had to check the date. They really screwed up, though – girls will never join their team unless they change the name of the team and the uniform.
Almost emailed a link to Arne in Colorado but remembered that he was more of a Frisbee Golf man.