Pope Steve's Bar Olympiad Challenge!His Holiness Pope Steve Hates Rainouts.  With no baseball games there is nothing much to do. Going to the movies is no good, people throw Junior Mints and Raisinetts at you and someone is always making disgusting noises with their armpits. Besides, they haven't made any good movies since the Three Stooges and The Marx Brothers died, so the movies are out. Bowling? Spare me!Your holiness never has his mind in the gutter, bowling is also out. While just hanging out in a local watering hole may seem like a good idea, sometimes even this gets to be a bore. That is why your holiness has come up with "The Bar Olympiad Challenge"!! An iron man test of demanding bar activites not for the faint of heart.Events included in this test of skill and athleticism are...Darts(the REAL man's darts with sharp metal tips. The kind you could poke someones eye out with, not the sissy plastic tip kind that women use, Pool, Shuffleboard(perhaps the hardest game on God's green earth to master), Setback(a card game that sometimes determines what kind of grapefuits you have and many more!.... Round 1 began on May 20th as Your Holiness took on his first challenger, Brother Tom the Layman. His Emminence started the festivities off with a bang, crushing Brother Tom in three straight lop-sided shuffleboard games. Pope Steve was then narrowly defeated in three contraversal games of pool. Setback was next and when Pope Steve evened the score, Brother Tom decided he had had enough and retreated home, to the safe hills of Ansonia...Round 2 was conducted in the shadows of Yankee Stadium after The Bronx Bombers trounced The Mets on June 10th. Pope Steve trounced Brother Tom much the same way in a pivotal game of Setback. Both competitors needed a week break and the series continued at TK's American Cafe on June 18. Brother Tom narrowly defeated His Holiness in two very close, nail biting games of setback to give him a slight edge in this series. This series finished up on Nov 10, 2000 at Geno's in Ansonia after a very exiting Yale-Princeton game. After Pope Steve won the first game of darts, Brother Tom won the next two matches to claim the 2000 championship. Cardinal Randy, fresh of his aqquittal of his criminal case in The Bronx, was once again the guest referee.
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Pope Steve XXV (Silver Medalist)----- 30 points
.........Norwalk Shuffleboard League All Star 1990-97....Runner up at The prestigious Kennedy Invitational Bar Olympiad 1998(Ted Kennedy-Champion)....Winner of The "Four without the Jack" setback tournement 1995.........Here you see his His Holiness Pope Steve XXV (right) and his bar room strength and conditioning coach "Spanky The Yankee" training hard for this year's Bar Olympiad. Spanky, also known as "The Hit Man" recomends cold, refreshing Budweiser, Mike's Hard Lemonade and green leafy substances to Pope Steve as the proper training tools for a successful defense of his Bar Room Olympiad title. |
Brother Tom the Layman (Gold Medalist)-----40 Points
.....Beat "Bloody Mary" Ray to claim Ansonia dart title in 1999.....Drives a nice Camero.....Has a pretty wife......Many would think that the much older, more experienced, Brother Tom the Layman would pose a tough challenge to Pope Steve. Many aslo thought The Braves would beat The Yankees... Brother Tom's training regiment consists of only cold, refreshing Budweisers. While most think a varied diet(sambucca, champagne, gin or vodka)is more healthy, Tom refuses to waver from his strict routine |
Special Guest Referee----Cardinal Randy!!
He got us Springsteen tickets.....Has many,many tattoes....Is a good bowler..Did not do any time after unfortunate playoff incident |
