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New York, NY - The world-renowned Radio
City Music Hall dance line, the Rockettes, added
a most unusual trophy to their illustrious mantel this past weekend when
they inadvertently defeated the Dayton Zippers in a Semi-Pro Indoor Soccer
League game, 5-4! The Rockettes were holding a "stretch and bend"
session at Madison Square Garden in preparation for their
newest Radio City show, a dance line interpretation of "Silence
Of The Lambs," when in walked the Zippers, who were actually
in the wrong place...at, it turns out, the wrong time! The Zippers should
not have been at Madison Square Garden but instead at the Madison Fair
Garden in Madison Clove, New Jersey, for an SPISL tilt against new Northeastern
Division rival the Jersey Non-Filtered Smokes. But the Zippers bus driver
thought the instructions to New Jersey were a joke -- who wouldn't? --
and instead dropped the team off at the infamous mid-town Manhattan arena.
The Rockettes participated in the first half without even knowing it by
just running their usual series of warmup kicks while the Zippers shook
off the effects of their 27-hour bus ride from Ohio to lead 3-1 at the
half. But in the second half, Mindy Flilf, the traditional 'pinwheel'
center on the Rockettes' kick-line, realized there was some sort of contest
going and and managed to spin different 'spokes' of Rockette dancers in
different patterns out towards the Zipper players. The Rockettes scored
four unanswered goals off high ankle kicks and then gave up a freebie
to the Zippers in the last 20 seconds of garbage time. The Rockettes are
now currently in first place in the SPISL, and with the league threatening
to fold this week, could win the de facto league title.
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