| Friday, June 25, 2010 |
| Friday Night Green Fights |
So our first Friday Night Green Fights was pretty informal, the product of a winter's worth of frustration. Like a bunch of raccoons stuck inside an upright piano we were, ready to flex our wings and - well, you get the picture. We had some swingin to get out.
If you can't convince people to do the green sustainable thing with the force of a moral argument, why not tell them, "Hey, unless you are involved in a green trade, then you can't get in the boxing ring and get beat up!"
Well, that's exactly what we did. The only requirement to box was that you be involved in some sort of business that emphasizes sustainablility. Something green, anything green. We would consider all applications. Not that we had that many - but we had enough.
It saved us money on company therapy. We wore 16-ounce gloves, big balloons, just enough to tap the riser of blood in the nose. The fightcard, drawn up on the spot, was:
(Samir cheated and used an axe)
Brian Eckert vs. Eric King
Samir Patel vs. David Wing
Niko Dyshniku vs. Reed Anderson
Angelo Anastasio vs. Brendan Jones
Reed Anderson vs. Brendan Jones
Please don't tell the Boxing Federation, or the state commissioner. We should have used more furniture blankets to cover edges of the table, and a mat of some sort instead of the concrete floor wouldn't have been the worst idea.
At first one corner of the ring was the tablesaw, then someone had the bright idea to unplug it, then someone had the bright idea to lower the blade, then someone had the bright idea to turn it around so it wasn't facing the ring, then someone had the bright idea not to use a tablesaw at all for a ring boundary. We're all thinkers here.
In any case, the photos speak for themselves. We went on to the Piazza afterward to watch the Flyers beat Chicago. For that night, at least, we were all quite content.
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