Super Bowl Fix

The Director may have sent the largest HURT contingent to the Loppet, but it wasn't the only game in town. The three-headed monster went to Old Forge to take on the final Junior Olympic qualifier of the season. As they have all season, the trio brought the HURT to the J2 field: A Huneck, 1st; B Halligan, 2nd; A Luban, 4th. Huneck was a mere 6 seconds off the fastest time of the day.

Bernadette O'brien also made the trek west for Team HURT and brought home the gold in the M6 class.

Halligan and Huneck hung around Old Forge and competed in biathlon Sunday. Halligan won the junior race, and Huneck, competing in his first biathlon, surprised himself by winning the novice class and by hitting 2 targets.

Sunday the Director himself sprang into action at the Dewey Mountain 5K freestyle. His father went along to try and win Peru Nordic's Super Bowl of Skiing and swipe the coveted foam finger. Since only Peruvians are allowed to enter this event, the elder Huneck went cleverly disguised as a mystery skier.

The two laps of the uphill, downhill course were made challenging by the fact that nearly everyone had done the Loppet the day before and by the 12 inches of soft snow that had fallen overnight. The race developed in slow motion and the "mystery skier" finished in the middle of the Peru Nordiques. Meanwhile the Director used his fresh legs and came away with the J3 win, showing the team how to earn big points.

Later, after the Super Bowl, the mystery skier was certain he would be given the finger. He had correctly picked the winner and the MVP. Only Peru's Keith Kogut had done the same. However, the mystery skier had come closer to predicting the game's final score than Kogut and had placed just ahead of him at Dewey Mt. But, like an election in a third world country, some sort of supercomputer denied the mystery skier the prize. The Director has spent the past two days searching the Internet for one of those supercomputers.

Meanwhile....riots and protests have broken out worldwide....