| Team Bio:
| If chickens can’t fly then where did the phrase “don’t fly the coop” come from? Well, it all started in 1903 with two young roosters named Wilbur and Orville Wright on the outskirts of Dayton, Ohio. It was the Wright roosters, two University of Dayton cocks, who invented the first heavier than air Frisbee and ushered in the age of Dayton air superiority. Historians maintain the high flying Frisbee antics of Wilber and Orville were lost during WWI, only to be discovered again in the late 1980’s by a group of UD students who are now known as “The Godfathers.” The Godfathers founded “Calvin and Hucks,” which later became “The Sultans of Swing,” and finally settled on “Ghetto Force” until several months ago when the University outlawed the use of the word “Ghetto.” On any given day you will find Ghetto Force cocks and hens still scratching around the campus fields in search of the Ultimate seeds of life.
First Chickens In Flight will be primarily made of the University of Dayton Ghetto Force Alumni, “Get Old Force.” Our goal is to recreate the UD party atmosphere, where every door is always open and underclassmen never pay to party, on the ultimate field. It will be a team of all ages, comprised of the founding fathers from the 80’s and their chicks (the father son connections), the power rooster generation of the 90’s, the young egg crackers of the 21st century, and of course our inter-team mates.
First Chickens In Flight has players living across the country but is based out of Dayton, Ohio. We understand the difficulty running such an immense tournament and with the team’s close proximity would like to volunteer our services to and help out wherever necessary—being chicken we are well versed with picking at the ground.
It would be an honor to again play at Poultry Days, and great reunion for all our alumni. Thanks for your consideration.
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| Team History:
| This would be Get-Old Force’s third consecutive year as the “First Chicken’s In Flight.” In past years the team has finished a fowl 1-4 and 0-5, but this year we plan on improving. At P-Days the team offered thirst-quenching chugs off of the Cow-A-Bonga (cow shaped beer bong) to all attendees with whom our paths crossed, and will continue the tradition.
Get-Old Force has operated at varying levels over the past 20 years. Each year Get-Old Force meets at UD in the fall for the alumni vs. current team scrimmage, this year’s alumni squad handedly defeated Dayton’s X/Y split. This weekend the team will compete in Boogie Nights at Oxford, Ohio. For 5 years in a row the Get-Old Force squad attended the co-ed beach tournament DGUTD (Don’t Give Up The Disc), and has made several appearances at the Chicago Sandblast tournament under various theme oriented names. The team is made up of current and former players from club teams including Sub Zero, Steamboat, Gambit, Enigma, Age Against The Machine, Baha, Inception, Machine, Madcow, Forge, Sir Duke, Mojo, Hustle, and Big Ass Truck.
In addition to reuniting with old friends and meeting new ones at Poultry Days, our team will be raising money to fund the education of future University of Dayton ultimate players. Two years ago our alumni association created a scholarship endowment fund which, once reaching a sustainable level, will distribute one scholarship to a UD Ultimate player each year in perpetuity. This is our third year of fundraising and we will ask each “Get-Old-Force” member playing on the Poultry Days team for a donation to the scholarship fund. It is our hope to return year after year and to continue to build up the fund.
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