Outstanding achievement in the field of excellence

For years I’ve looked on from afar with envy at Parity league.  It seemed like fun, but I’d told myself years ago that I was done with winter indoor frisbee.  It’s cold.  The dome is far away.  Also, I’m older, slower and running makes my body hurt.  This year thanks to my charming and persuasive wife I decided to give it another try.

**Note that the actual exchange was over text while we were both at home:

JB: Are you playing Parity with me?  Registration is in 15 minutes.

JH: Sure

From as far as I can discern, a person’s goals in the parity league should be to:

1. Make questionable throw choices

2. Have at least one week where your teammates catch all of your swill so you can feel good about your inflated salary

3. Through either poor throw choices or inflated salary (or both!) achieve notoriety/infamy.

Goal 1 was a given, so no worries there.  

Goal 2 happened on week one where the brave souls of Save Kindha - the Katy Parity Revival caught hammers thrown at the backs of their heads, blades whizzing over their shoulders and scoobers to no one.  Thanks guys!

Goal 3 seemed like it would be harder to achieve, but to my shock and surprise I’m pretty sure the early game on week three has sealed it up.  For those who missed the early time slot,   Save Kindha - the Katy Parity Revival   failed to reach 10 goals in the 80 minutes of Frisbee we played.  At the time this seemed impressive, and in hindsight it seems even more so.  The feat was so impressive that it prompted me to do some research into whether it had ever been done before.

Through scouring the OCUA website for all previous parity scores (except 2016, where is 2016?) I noticed that there are 3 other teams who put up single digit points.

On November 9, 2015 Luke Parity managed an impressive 9 goals in their game.  Of note here is that Luke Parity shared many members, including a captain, with the current Save Kindha - the Katy Parity Revival, thus proving that Monday’s achievement was a display of undoubted skill and not mere good fortune.

On January 4, 2016 Stan’s Sturgeons broke Luke Parity’s record by scoring only 8 goals in their game!  I also note that Stan’s Sturgeons went on to an impressive first place finish in their round robin, giving hope to Save Kindha - the Katy Parity Revival going forward this year.

Finally on November 7, 2016 Like a Boss (that name seems familiar) tied Stan’s Sturgeon’s record with their own 8 goal performance.  I looked up their final season standings as well, but in the spirit of self-preservation and matrimonial harmony I won’t post them here.

I knew that Monday night was special but never could I have imagined that Save Kindha - the Katy Parity Revival would crush all previous attempts and cement ourselves in the record books by scoring an unfathomable 6 goals in a single game!  Like Joe DiMaggio’s 56 game hitting streak and Rasheed Wallace’s 41 technical fouls in a single NBA season, I have to believe that Save Kindha - the Katy Parity Revival’s 6 goals in a game will go down in history as one of sport’s truly unbreakable records.

In the end, I’m just happy to have been able to contribute to such an iconic moment in the history of the league.  I’d like to thank my team mates who kept cutting for me and throwing to me on my way to 7 throw aways, 1  thrown drop and 2 drops.  I’d also like to thank Rudderless Pirate Ship for scoring their goals so quickly.  If the game had played out differently, doubters might have questioned the legitimacy of our achievement in a slow-paced, low scoring game.  But with 34 goals against I can confirm it wasn’t a matter of Save Kindha - the Katy Parity Revival not being given sufficient opportunities to score, but a clear and commanding ability to not score.  I feel honoured to have achieved such greatness in just three short weeks playing parity and I can’t wait for what the rest of the season will bring.