I guess Batiuk’s not gonna bother refreshing our memory about this Mickey character, or how she, a kicker, scored the winning touchdown 11 years ago. He’s content just to have her mentally undressed by a locker room full of teenage boys while her stepdad looks on.
Gang, that wraps up my turn in the SoSF barrel for now. Be sure to tune in tomorrow when a brand new surprise special guest author steps into the breach for the next couple weeks!
Son of Stuck Funky 
So she scored a TD? Even though Bull asked how her leg was feeling yesterday? I’m thinking either Batiuk doesn’t understand football at all, or really doesn’t give a crap with his writing. Or a little of both.
Maybe he meant she kicked the extra point which put them over the top? Which is great and all, but no major feat for a decent kicker, and certainly not something that will provide one with any insight or strategy as far as the game as a whole is concerned. And anyway, isn’t this team supposed to have a losing record dating back to at least the Nixon administration?
He went through the trouble of dredging up this Mickey character just for the sake of this somewhat sleazy gag? So he’s already done a “Goats win unlikely championship” arc? OK, so if that’s the case, the only noteworthy thing about it happening again is the Owen subplot…the one he’s steadfastly ignoring for the most part. Yep, that sounds about right.
She must have picked up a bad snap and run it to the corner of the goal line as depicted in panel one. Ok then. Other than that, TB must believe male pattern baldness sets in around the age of 17, judging by this group of high school students.
It just makes no sense that Bull would ask how her leg was though. Her leg didn’t win the game.
Les [thinking]: My GOD that was a magnificently insufferable smirk in the upper left-hand corner. I’d better do my cheek stretching exercises step up my game; no sporto is going to beat ME in the fleering department!
What’s really unrealistic is that she wouldn’t realize immediately that the team saw her as meat, not an unlikely point scorer.
@Paul Jones, A normal woman in her late twenties sure, but we’re talking Westview where self absorbed narcissism is the norm.
So, she scored the winning goal in her Homecomeing (?) gown with no protective gear apart from a helmet. That makes even less sense than putting your mascot into the game.
@Epicus Doomus & @Rusty: Kickers do occassionally score accidental TDs, even in the NFL. Here’s the Green Bay Packers’ Chester Marcol scoring a game winning TD in sudden death OT, to beat the Chicago Bears, Sept. 7, 1980. (You can skip about the first 45 secs. if you want. The replays start around 2:20, where you can see exactly what happened.)
Even back then, Ohio’s high school athletics association must have had an exception to the mandatory football equipment rules in the national rulebook.
More child abuse, this one Bull committed on his own stepkid.
@Epicus. You should hear the punch to today’s trip I thought of…
I just realized she is wearing long sleeved gloves and what appears to be a gown after seeing some more comments. So she was the team’s kicker, probable homecoming queen, and played in her gown. WTF.
Just as no one can be a success because that might diminish Les’ status, so no actual male athlete can ever be good at a sport, because that would diminish Tom Batiuk. (NB: It’s perfectly okay for female athletes to succeed, because they’re not threatening or something.)
@Rusty–It’s called writing, you hidebound literalist!