Blondes vs. Brunettes #6 - Powderpuff #2 Blondes 33, Brunettes 32

That Arrow pointing up?  It didn't mean straight ahead,
it actually meant straight up as in climbing a freakin' mountain!

Both quarterbacks were outstanding, but the blonde was better looking.  In terms of which team to root for, that pretty much sealed the deal for me.

But what actually jumped out at me upon my arrival was the sight of two dark haired girls playing for Team Blonde and my knee jerk, panic reaction, "Oh my gosh, are we running out of blondes?  Maybe all those internet rumors about blond extinction are true! Quick, somebody call Sweden while I call the immigration department!"

Then I noticed a blond wearing a blue shirt and playing for Team Brunette.OK, I know this is liberal-lefty Washington D.C. that prays at the altar of diversity, but come on girls let's get with the program which, by the way, is called Blondes vs. Brunettes.

As they say on TV, it was a tough, hard fought game. And it was.  The lead changed hands several times.  The quarterbacks were really good. They actually threw tight spirals 10-20 yards right to the hands of receivers who were  running perfectly timed patterns.  I was impressed.


Just a wild guess, but I think mother and son were
rooting for Team Blonde

No pass rush, though.  Is that a flag football rule?  Maybe, I can't remember.  The tempo was pretty much snap, everybody goes wide and the QB figures out who to gets the pitch. Occasional running play just to keep the defense honest.  The brunette had the better arm, geez she could really throw the ball, but the blonde could scramble better and rushed for a couple of goal line TDs the last of which
occurred with 20 seconds left on the clock. The crowd thought that the blondes had iced the game with that TD but then Team Blonde managed to boot the ball all of 10 yards on the ensuing kickoff, giving the brunettes perfect field position to win the game with seconds remaining on the clock. The first play placed Team Brunette at the goal line and they desperately tried to push the ball in, but time ran out on the third play from scrimmage and that was, as they say, the ball game.



Nice leg kick by the Blond QB

I thought it was a pretty darn good game but would never pass up a chance to complain, so here goes.

1. Bad location.  In a city that arguably has the best public transportation system in the country, the George Washington University athletic campus is nowhere near a metro station.  As a result, everybody has to drive.

2. There's no place to park.

3. The stadium is located on top of a hill. After walking twenty minutes just to get there, the last thing I needed to do was climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

4. There's no comfortable place to watch the game.  It's actually played on a soccer field which understandably has spectator seating for exactly 38 people. The remaining several hundred had to stand for two and half hours.

5. No beer, no food, no vendors.

So why this venue?  I suspect, and I don't mean this in a mean spirited or cynical way, that the organizers have an inside hook to the GWU administration and are allowed to use the facilities on favorable terms.  Since the post game reception includes copious amounts of booze, I also suspect that most of the local high schools are ruled out.  As well, it's a sweet area. Located just northwest of Georgetown near Foxhall Road, it's in one of the District's ritziest neighborhoods which I suspect is also one of the country's wealthiest.

 



Pretty good reasons to pick that venue.

I didn't get a chance to chat with the players after the game, much less hug the winning quarterback, because it was late and I had to get home.

Officially, I spent Saturday afternoon shopping for new brass knobs for kitchen cabinets. Good thing for me all the local Home Depots were sold out which explains why I came home empty handed three hours later.

 

 

Team Blonde (33) pulls ahead with 21 seconds left in the game

Blondes vs. Brunettes #5 - Powderpuff #1, Saturday is the Big Day

Mark it on your calendars, Blondes vs Brunettes flag football showdown, 1PM at George Washington University, Washington D.C.  GWU's stadium is actually located at their "Mount Vernon Athletic  Complex" located in the District at 2100  Foxhall Road, a few miles away from GWU's main campus.

http://blondesvsbrunettes.org/game-info/

Sexy and exciting, what else would you expect of a blonde vs brunette confrontation, and it's for a good cause.  All proceeds support the Alzheimer's Association.

This is the seventh year of the game in Washington D.C., which is where it all started. I first attended in 2010. Check out the pics. The brunettes won the game with a last minute touchdown. Being brunettes, they were able to recruit a couple of very fast and very athletic black (and black haired) receivers who out played the blonde defensive backs, a slick move that enabled the victory.

Very clever, those brunettes.

The rules, as I understand them, allow any race or ethnicity on either side, of course, as long as their hair is correct.  I suspect the blondes are always trying to recruit some peroxide blonde black gals although I don't know if they have been successful, as the brunettes won last year as well.

If you're not familiar with this event, and I suspect most of you have never heard of it, the game is actually played in over 20 cities throughout this great nation of ours.

Now here's where it gets interesting.  Impressed as I was a few years back as a spectator, and being a Wikipedia fan, I checked to see if there was a Wikipedia article on this event and having discovered that there wasn't, I wrote one.
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondes_vs._brunettes_powderpuff_football

Neat, huh?

Having successfully written that article, I got to thinking, why not have an article about Blondes vs Brunettes?  So I wrote one of those too, but it was turned down by a Wiki administrator as not being suitable, notable, verifiable and not being encyclopedic in nature.

With that rejection, I implemented "Plan B" which was to write a scaled down version of the article and embed it into the existing Wikipedia article titled "Blond" as a new section titled "Blonde vs. Brunette Rivalry."  Ensuring that this new section was properly documented and cited with reliable and verifiable sources, Plan B worked swimmingly for about six months. At that point, the new section became so big it was actually out sizing the rest of the article and according to some of the editors, becoming a bit too salacious. Pornographic is what they said.  Who? Me?

After some heated exchanges on the "talk page" the "Blonde vs Brunette" section was voted off the island when one of the editors decided enough was enough and split the section off to an entirely independent article.

And with that, I had, in a very roundabout way, accomplished Plan A.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonde_versus_brunette_rivalry

Curiously, I discovered that by that point in time I had made enough Wiki edits that I could write and approve my own articles; I didn't need to nominate them for administrator approval. With that power in hand, I pumped out a few more articles relating to the topic.

Enjoy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Gladiatrices:_Blondes_vs._Brunes


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_School_Girl


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_and_the_Amazon_Women

No promises and no guarantees, but with some luck I'll be able to sneak out of the house on Saturday and get to the game.  If so, will be sure to snap a few photos and post them on the blog along with the final score.

Blondes vs. Brunettes #4 - Alexis and Krystle

The 80’s were a busy part of my life, saddled with all of the normal responsibilities that we both endure and enjoy.  But there was little time left for some types of enjoyment and as a result of that, missed what may have been some of the greatest blond vs. brunette battles in history. Of course, I’m talking about Alexis and Krystle on the ABC TV soap opera, Dynasty.  A few years back, one of the morning news shows featured the 25^th anniversary of Dynasty and, as part of the story, interviewed the blond haired Linda Evans who played Krystle (not Krystal) on the show.  Not surprisingly the interview quickly turned to the rolling, rollicking catfights she had with brunette Joan Collins. 

In her book, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, cultural historian and critic, Susan Douglas included a chapter on catfights and noted Dynasty’s fights, in particular. Discussing the rise of catfights in popular culture, Douglas wrote that by the 1970s, catfights

"...had evolved into various forms of especially sloppy faux combat between women, like female mud wrestling or Jell-O wrestling. In its purest form, it features two women, one usually a traditional wife (blond), the other a grasping, craven careerist (brunette), who slug it out on a veranda, in a lily pond, or during a mudslide. Usually they fight over men or children. Sometimes, as in The Turning Point, they just hit each other with their little purses. Other times, as in the incessant catfights in Dynasty, Krystle got to slop a big, gushy glob of cold cream in Alexis’s face, or Alexis got to thrown pond scum down Krystle’s blouse. "

Of course, a blond and a brunette, what else?

Watch: Krystle and Alexis in their first Dynasty fight

Curious note:  In Evans' autobiography, Recipes for Life: My Memories, she claimed that the "blueprint" for her first catfight with Joan Collins was the "outrageous catfight" she had with Stephanie Powers in McCloud (see the October 20th blog entry).