Ravings of a Textual Deviant

This week, Paul presents us with the Miracle on Ice; to wit:

Our 13th “Unlucky” IRE harkens back a quarter century to one of the most stunning events in Hockey, or any other sports, history. The unheralded, plucky US Hockey team beat the defending Olympic champion Russian team (enroute to eventually beating Finland for the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics). This story of David versus Goliath is the fodder for this outing’s IRE.

I love ice hockey. I love everything about ice hockey. I especially love Olympic ice hockey. But that’s not what I am going to talk about.

No, I am going to continue ripping off other authors and drop my players into the Big Game themselves, per Robert Aspirin’s Myth Directions. If you haven’t read the book, the short version is: the main characters find themselves facing two professional sports teams in a three-way match for the Trophy. The only rule is that players are not allowed to use edged weapons against each other. (My favorite bit in the book is when one character asks about the guy wearing stripes. “Leave him alone, he’s neutral,” the other replies.)

Heck, I’d probably go for a two-for-one ripoff and make it Quidditch for Blood and Revenge. I’d love to watch my crew run riot against the equivalent of, say, Manchester United.

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