Friday, May 16, 2025

Birkie 2024 Giant Ski Race! Crazy-Good FUN!!!

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At 4:30 P.M., Thursday 2024 Birkie Week, Main St., Hayward, Wisconsin, the crowd was large, rowdy, and a little bit off-kilter in anticipation. Neither they nor the Giant Ski Teams knew exactly, or even remotely, what they had to do to win. Typical NIMROD, crazy-good NIMROD.

https://youtu.be/xLHOhk-RZh8

The BEST-LOOKING Giant Ski Team (Per Mike McFadzen)

https://youtu.be/LyFPfFwIlxA

The Team that Knows How to Spell "BIRKIE" - at least after spelling IRKBIE, KIERED, & BRIKIE

https://youtu.be/fTgIqzJ1HnI

The Team Called Hayward on Fire (that isn't actually from Hayward!)

https://youtu.be/AregNra-LgE

The Team Called 10 Balls & a Rack whose video had to be cut short because, well, the explanation of the name was indeed not family-friendly. (Actually, the video person messed up the video! - but here's their team logo).

5 Guys and 1 Girl. 10 balls and … okay, we get it!

This is Part 2. First teams must sink three baskets, or Frisbees, or footballs into garbage cans. Part 3 is an actual dryland Giant Ski. This here is water teams better not spill as they traverse Main Street - that's a 5-second penalty per spilled cup!

https://youtu.be/2WyxXZMCl5I

I called this team The Alice Coopers. They didn't know who that was. Ah - youth!

https://youtu.be/kd1IU0EMeRw

Some serious competition here, folks! (Key Mantra: Don't Spill! Don't Spill! Don't Spill!)

https://youtu.be/qlo3eWO8M7o

On to Part 3: The REAL Giant Ski! Are any ski lessons available???

https://youtu.be/BXy0PgIxedg

And the good teams got to sing a song!

It was delamination blues - one of the Giant Skis just couldn't stand the pressure. The winner is: Incredible Birkie Spirit! If you weren't there, you shoulda been! C'mon Giant Ski 2025!!!

American Birkebeiner

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