O-SIB’D-SGADFOT’L – THE GENESIS OF PUB LEAGUE
Following the conclusion of the 2007 baseball season, Pub League was conceived so the members of Bramslammers Team 15 could continue drinking beer & eating wings on Monday nights.
Over said cold beers and delicious wings, in the bar known as Keltic Rock in Brampton, rough details were worked out: There would a monthly gathering, with games. There would be a points system. The initially proposed Monday nights would attract a sparse crowd, so the first event was scheduled for a Saturday. Everyone would throw in a bit of cash for a prize. And there’d be a trophy at the end. The foundation of Pub League had been laid.
The birthplace of Pub League.
The first event was a success and Pub League is now the phenomenon we all know, with an alumni in excess of 150 participants. And, we realized following the first event that Pub League could generate some good revenue. So why not make a charitable donation? Then we could get all drunked up AND feel good about helping someone out, at the same time! Hence, every year Pub League makes a donation to Sleeping Children Around the World, a great organization. You can read about your donations through the link uptop.
Below – the rarest of all documents:
The very first email, sent on September 13, 2007, to schedule Pub League Event #1.
— THE ORIGINAL EMAIL —
—-Original Message Follows—-
Subject: O-SIB’D-SGADFOT’L #1
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:04:15 -0400
So, here is your reminder email for the greatest event in history
TEAM 15 AND FRIENDS OFF-SEASON INAUGURAL BILLIARD DARTS SINGING GAMBLING AND DRINKING FACE-OFF TOURNAMENT LEAGUE (O-SIB’D-SGADFOT’L)
First event is SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 15 2007 at the Keltic Rock Pub, Brampton, (sandalwood & kennedy) 7pm onwards
It’s not a house party, where you drift in at 11pm… we need everyone at 7pm to figure out the evening’s competition. We’ll branch off into partners or teams.
All are expected to partake in Darts, Billiards, Singing and Drinking. Poker if accommodated by the pub, I have some chips, Jay bring more. This will be a round-robin elimination format high-stakes evening that may deteriorate into complete drunkenness and incapacity to do anything mentioned here.
Invite all those not included in this email, get the word out, let’s fill er up. Anticipate a monthly re-occurance.
It is important to attend the first night, as there will be voting on who will complete the minutes, determining our mascot, official chant, uniforms and review/hazing of new pledges.
Note the AND FRIENDS part. All are welcome to rock the cashbar. Ouch.
See you there.
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There’s the email that started it all. The rest is history!
O-SIB’D-SGADFOT’L proved to be a mouthful, and was quickly renamed into the Amazing Super Stylin’ Pub League Ultra Group, which within a year was shortened to simply – Pub League.