Key Losses:<\/strong> Yui Lewis “And the News”, Dan “Danny Abs” Abdo<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Dark Rainbows struggled out of the gate in 2010 with losses in each of their first three games.\u00a0 However, the team rebounded quickly with wins in seven of their next nine games, including two against the Happy Little Elves and one against the Unicorns to clinch the prestigious (yet imaginary) Fairy Tale Cup.\u00a0 Despite this run, the team faltered towards the end of the season and could only muster a fourth place finish in the Hackett Division.\u00a0 Championship hopes ended in the Rainbows’ first playoff contest, when they lost to the Sky Fighters for the third time in 2010 in a 2-1 heartbreaker.<\/p>\n
“Last year blew,” noted the Rainbows’ loquacious captain Sean Reynolds.\u00a0 Clearly, the team has been feeling frustrated as of late.\u00a0 Despite the immense achievement of capturing their first Fairy Tale Cup in 2010 (which Reynolds claims he pawned), the team is starting to feel pressure from its boosters.\u00a0 Since the Dark Rainbows’ amazing championship run in 2007, the team has won just one playoff game, a 2-1 squeaker over the Mighty Squirrels in 2008.\u00a0 Certainly, the last few seasons have been disappointing.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Reynolds remains optimistic about his team’s chances for 2011.\u00a0 He proclaims, “The division of past champions (the Hackett Division) will be dominated by the new ‘run and chase’ style of the Rainbows.”\u00a0 Whether Reynolds’ new offense can conquer the division remains to be seen, but he makes an important point that every team in the Hackett Division has previously won at least one BTSH championship: Dark Rainbows (2007), Fresh Kills (2008), LBS, Inc. (F2003, 2004), Sky Fighters (S2003, 2009), and What The Puck (F2002, 2006).\u00a0 With this history of success, the Hackett Division may prove to be the toughest in BTSH.<\/p>\n
Entity They Resemble, According to Rich Glanzer:<\/strong> Jack \u201cCap\u201d Rooney<\/em> (old QB from Any Given Sunday<\/em>). Cap is a former champion on his last legs. He\u2019s still good enough to beat any team one time, but too old to do it on a consistent basis. The Rainbows are the holder of the prestigious (yet imaginary) Fairy Tale Cup. They can play their best for two games and beat the Unicorns and Elves, but a four game winning streak against the elite BTSH teams is a stretch at this point.
\nFast Fact:<\/strong> In 1999, P.T. Walkley legally changed his name to James “Jim” West after his favorite movie character.\u00a0 He changed it back in 2001.<\/p>\nROSTER<\/strong>
\nJennie Brown
\nJohn Cassidy
\nMike Dudolevitch
\nRobert Ee-lee
\nAli Fischer
\nJenna Flateman
\nLindsay Foehrenbach
\nJesse Gerstein
\nLibby Hartle-Tyrrell
\nJanica Lee
\nJohn Meyer
\nJohn Nielsen
\nSaburah Posner
\nSean Reynolds (C)
\nJon Rudd
\nBrad Thomason
\nTrevor “White Jesus” Tyrrell
\nMichel Walkley
\nP.T. Walkley
\nJosh Wilson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"P.T. Will Have To Regrow His Hair To Fit In Color: Pink Year Founded: 2004 2010 Regular Season Finish: 8-6-0-2 (4th, Hackett Division; 10th overall) 2010 Playoff Result: Lost to Sky Fighters in round of 16 Conference: Weyersberg Division: Hackett 2010 Leading Scorer: John Nielsen, 12 goals Team Song: Maino ft. T-Pain – All The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[153,12,18],"class_list":["post-3756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-team-previews","tag-2011-season","tag-dark-rainbows","tag-team-previews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3756"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3756\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.miyagimedia.com\/bruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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