A Goodbye of Sorts

Hi Guys,

It's the Wizard with, unfortunately, what will be my last post as the Ghetto Force blogger. I have had the privilege of being the team blogger over the past two years. You all have, rather amazingly, accepted my poor choice of words, terrible grammar, and paltry attempts at humor with open arms. For that I am grateful. Ross Guelzow was a near impossible person to follow up, if you're ever bored one day go check out some of his older posts - they're hysterical.

I came to this team a bored, lonely 20 year old sophomore who hadn't done anything remotely athletic in at least 4 years.

When I started my sophomore year, I wanted to get involved in a club team but I couldn't decide. I actually thought I was going to play rugby here; I went to a practice and really enjoyed it. However, during that practice, I took a really bad step and ended up with a plantar fasciitis and realized that I would likely die playing with those gigantic, crazed, bearded dudes.

So I emailed Phil and he told me to come check out a practice - the rest is history. Actually, I need to thank Ted Lannert, if he hadn't seen me hobbling around and recommended I email Phil I would not be here right now.

That in mind, I am going to list some of my favorite things that have happened during my tenure as a member of Dayton's Premier College Ultimate Team.

1. Phil Broderick.
2. The Oasis (Peg and Butters)
3. Getting some nick names to stick (Sammy Scrotum Hands, Zubat, The Assmaster Doug to name a couple)
4. Being the Trap Wizard
5. The Chode and his Dr Pepper fetish
6. Hosting get togethers on Chambers Screet in the Trap House
7. Long drives in my Pontiac - Fighting the need to vomit through the many trips through Indiana
8. Heckling people with my one true love, The Brosteve
9. Hours spent on Brown street establishments with too many people to list
10. Kaylor and his cat
11. Frasz tackling some guy with his shirt off
12. Beach themed things
13. Wolfing
14. D.J. Dylan Corwin
15. Creating glass alley
16. Long nights of video gaming with Peaches
17. Zip ties
18. Funk circles
19. The quiet wisdom of Adam Tardio
20. Throwing ill advised high release forehands
21. Almost dying driving to Florida
22. Watching those younger than me come into their own and get better than my old slow ass

My experience at college has largely been defined by this team and the people on it. I cannot imagine where I would be now. 

I leave you in the hands of someone I think funnier than I. Conner Haenszel aka Princess aka Princess Darth Vader (He wears black cleats now but he will always be princess to me) will be the new blogger. If you aren't familiar with Conner, dude is also a fantastic handler and I'm excited to see what he comes up with.

Ghetto Force travels this weekend to avoid studying for finals play at regionals.

Thanks for all the great times - I am honored to have been a part of this team and doubly so to have been trusted with the Blog.

Finally, thanks for playing with me.

Later.

The Trap Wizard

Jamie Horne

Some of my favorite moments:

 First tournament I played in, never touched the disc the whole weekend

 Tough Mudder