The Sign Guys are well known for clever, witty, on-the-spot, in-your-face, signs! These guys had signs to taunt everyone, Referees, skaters, Reverend Jim, even themselves! The sign guys could always be found dead smack in the middle between turn two and turn three, with a pile of blank signs, beer, and markers. Now for the past two bouts I looked to my left, …nothing. Maybe we can put out an amber alert, for something is truly wrongwith the scenario. Anyone who can remember the last time you have seen The Sign Guys, please alert your local authorities of that location. Maybe Pain Austen has stole The Sign Guys, for her own amusement in D.C. (we are onto you Pain)? Maybe Schwo had a hit-man take them out, because he could not take the Schwo-Mo signs? All I know is derby is not the same without those Sign Guys!
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I spotted some people with signs down here, but they all said stuff about World Bank and IMF instead of derby and none of them said anything as clever as ‘Schwo-Mo”
If they can’t be recovered, BRRG should hold a contest to become the new sign guys. Contestants should come up with ten clever things they would have put on signs for the two bouts of this season. Entries can be posted on burningriverrollergirls.com and voted on by fans. Winner gets two season tickets, a large dry erase board, and two white hats.
However, the best solution will be to recover the original sign guys. The Turn Two Boys losing the Sign Guys is like Superman losing Lex Luthor or The Smurfs losing Gargamel.
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Maybe they weren’t as bright as we thought. Maybe they keep showing up at the old West Side location thinking that they have the wrong day or something? They are sitting outside right now with used signs as a lean-to until you return? It could happen.
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Both of these replies made me laugh really hard!
Bumpin’ Jack Flash
Cookie Monster
Derby fan and stats volunteer
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So…here’s the deal — we are still alive and still living in roughly the same places we always have. As much fun as Pain Austen might have shown us in DC…she left us crying at the airport as we held up our “Please Don’t Go” signs and made puppy dog eyes at her.
Our vigil at the old, beloved rink (where people didn’t have to stand in three inches of piss and overflowed shitter to take a leak) ended shortly before the second bout when phone calls went out to coordinate an effort to make new signs for the new season and new facility. The day of the event though — everyone backed out wit more important things to do related to their personal lives (for me, it was a multidigit research paper before graduation from CSU this spring).
That leaves us with the upcoming bout in May. The intention is to FINALLY make a triumphant return…but being the enigma that we are, having heard there was no couch installed for our exclusive use, and knowing how the signs would interfere with the view for people behind us in the NEW suicide seats — questions remain as to whether or not the new facility is really conducive to the Sign Guys.
(And the reason we know so much about that stuff is because a Sign Guy from season one scouted the first bout for us…)
So…maybe we’ll be there in May…maybe we won’t. But the love we have for the BRRG is still burning in us…and our day will come again.
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Soul Eater
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May 4th, 2009 at 10:06 am
FYI, the bathroom situation seemed to be handled at the second bout and hopefully from now on. They were pretty f’ing disgusting at the first bout. Apparently they didn’t believe us when we said we brought in a lot of people!
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Ivanna Destroya
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May 4th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Lamest excuses I’ve ever heard. Quit your bitching and come heckle us with funny signs!!
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WC
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May 4th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
The first funny sign I want to see is how Ivanna Destroya should be jamming more!
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R.E.
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May 4th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I think I met her sister once, she was just recently married I believe her name was: Ivanna B. Destroydbya!
I find it hard to believe that they went all the way down to west side. I believe that both of them are very smart. I learned this at a Halloween party hosted by Pain Austen after speaking with one of the sign guys, and his friend which came as a sumo wrestler. I honestly think that they are intimidated by the new location, but there is always a seat at turn 2 if they are scared!
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I think the “I had a paper to write” excuse is the lamest. Graduation is sooooo overrated.
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