The Head Coach
From PiedPipersHouseOfPong
(Revised 2nd ed. – Copyright Dec 2008)
A few years ago in the City of Golden at the Campus of Mines
Was a formidable Head Coach - though he never drank wines
The Pongers would all learn Pong from Head Coach the most
Even though no beer or wine glass would he "raise in a toast"
Head Coach took on "The General" without so much as a quiver,
The General was then bloody, but the Head Coach had no sliver
It seems the Mighty General thought Head Coach bagged sand
Yet straight to the mat, the "once mighty" General would land
The rank of General was no match for the Head Coach at Mines
In full tribute to the Head Coach, the Pied Piper often toasts wines
Sandbaggers are for sprawling golf courses, not cozy Dens of Pong
In Pong rooms we enhance with music, wine, poetry and fine song
The Sandbagger so defined is "As Earth's lowest form of Life"
The Mighty General regrets suddenly causing himself strife
Back then, two "Giants of Pong" waged not battle, but War
In the end, the Mighty General fell straight down to the Floor
The emails were flying around with support for each side
And the conflict was open many hundreds of miles wide
Civil War teams in the running in their quest to be the best
Except the Miners sans Head Coach -- just looked on with jest
Pied Piper asked Lefty The Looper, What do you think of the War?
Lefty said "most hilarious" and quickly came a great laughter roar
Why in the end, should any Pong team become so utterly undone?
Shouldn't the game of Pong be void of conflict and much more fun?
And of what importance did it matter -- all of this penalty talk?
As The Head Coach threatened that his Pong team would walk
If you thought the ranked General was Mighty, based on a hunch
Fully revealed now is that -- "The Head Coach had General's lunch"
Perhaps we will never know – Did the Head Coach ever bag sand?
What's more clear to us now - is where "The General" did so land
In the end, Who was it that held the gleaming shiny trophy so high?
The Pied Piper of Pong smiles and points to "The Head Coach" guy
The Pied Piper of Pong