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The Scene: The Iowa football practice facility, earlier today.
Let's see, what do we have on the schedule today: tackling drills, blocking drills, short out drills, short out drills, more short out drills... *sigh* Sometimes it's just like, what's the point... HEY! WHAT THE %$#@ IS THIS!?
WHO FILLED MY GLEAMING NEW PRACTICE FACILITY WITH 100,000 CUBIC YARDS OF SAND! I WANT ANSWERS OR THERE wiLL BE HEADS ON POSTS, PEOPLE!
Oh, hi Kirk! [puts down toy bucket and shovel] How's it hangin', pal?
Ken! What are you doing here? Don't you have a game tonight?
Oh, that team pretty much runs itself at this point. I came back because I was concerned about you. You look tense -- is everything all right?
Well, no, actually. The team can't seem to stop losing, I'm snapping at reporters, I chewed my gum so hard it went through my teeth and into my brain. And if you haven't noticed, my practice facility is filled with sand.
Oh, I can explain that. I brought that in.
YOU did this. You... you... YOU JOWLY WASTE OF A HAWAIIAN SHIRT I WILL DESTROY YOU I WILL COVER YOU WITH GRITS AND TELL GREG YOU'RE BREAKFAST I WILL MAKE YOU WATCH THE MICHIGAN STATE GAME UNTIL YOUR EYES BLEED -- say, wait a minute. Why are you wearing a Hawaiian shirt?
This? This is why I came here to talk to you. This is why I dumped all this sand here. I've learned a new way of life during my time in Florida. Everything's easy living, Hawaiian shirts, margaritas and sunshine. Unlike here. You've got a real Bataan death march vibe going here.
Hey, we're relaxed. We know how to have fun. Just last week I let the team have a movie night.
C'mon, Kirk. It's Ken, you don't have to lie to me. You guys are so tense you're apt to strangle Pat Harty with his sweatpants. Today I want you and your team to relax. And there's no better way to relax than ... BEACH PARTY! [puts record on phonograph]
Hey hey hey -- what are you doing there? What's that album?
Living in Miami has opened me up to all kinds of new experiences. I just recorded my first solo album down there:
Ooh, here, it's starting! Get the team together.
[A jazzy beach party riff starts to play and is soon accompanied by drums, bass guitar, and a smooth baritone voice, which sings the following words]
Well we got a new dance that's sweeping South Beach
[duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh na]
It looks real funky and it's easy to teach.
[duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh na]
You just flap your arms and then you bend your knees.
[duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh na]
[duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh na]
Even Andrei Kirilenko and his pigs are doing it!
I am probably going to regret this, but what the heck.
See, life doesn't have to be all misery and grinding, torturous, incremental trench warfare! And neither does football!
Hey, yeah! I'm really starting to have fun now! I could get used to this!
Oh, wait, it was all just some crazy dream. The practice facility isn't filled with sand. I didn't just dance to beach music in a skimpy bathing suit. Andrei Kirilenko didn't do the KOK-a-doodle... *sigh* I miss Ken.