March Madness

Are you a basketball fan? Have you been glued to your TV watching March Madness? Everyone in the Woodpile certainly has been. Our team has made it to the final round. Oh, you’re thinking human basketball teams. You really should tune into CSN (Chipmunk Sports Network). Chipmunk basketball is far more exciting and unpredictable. Just think about it for a moment … we have four paws and a nose to dribble the ball with. Have you ever seen a human dribble with their foot?

Well getting back to the Woodpile Furballs (please don’t ask the origins of that name), the team has historically ranked dead last. This season they gave a 1,000 seed a month scholarship to a star player and we made the playoffs. As I was saying things can be a bit unpredictable. Our star player tripped over a ball during warm-ups for the game and broke his two front paws and is out for the rest of the season. Due to injuries throughout the season the team didn’t have any backup players. The coach needed a replacement player and asked for volunteers from the audience. (Now you know why we have historically been dead last.) Mrs. Spot at that very moment raised her paw to point out a banner on the wall to her grandchildren … Well, I can kiss that 500 seed bet I made on the game good-bye. Official rules for Chipmunk Basketball have no age restrictions and no gender requirement. The only eligibility rule is you have to be part of an education institution. Mrs. Spot being a teacher qualified.

Mrs. Spot, “The ball goes where?” [This was her first time at a basketball game!]

She got the hang of nose dribbling quickly.

And mastered nose passing on the first try.

Here she is chasing a loose ball during the game.

For a grandmother, she moves faster than the youngsters. She noses a rebound.

Being a creative thinker, she contemplates pushing the ball back up through the net …

… but instead gets called for goal tending.

 “Swish!” Even as she dodges a leaf thrown by a disgruntled fan from the opposing team. (Yup, that fan got ejected.)

Mrs. Spot makes this three pointer look easy.

A half second before the final game buzzer, down by one point, Mrs. Spot slam dunks the ball for the winning score but her moment of glory comes crashing down, literally. “Oops, I didn’t do it!”