Kingsford
25-11-2003, 22:54
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A cool october evening dawned in the quiet city of Findlay. The town was overlaid with a blanket of thin clouds colored by the setting sun, trapping the cool air.
The town hall, it's brick structure accented by the bell tower, lay in the center of the town, peering over the two and three story buildings to the south, the tree dotted park to the east, the sprawling residential neighborhoods to the north, and the stadium and wheat fields to the west. At it's steps leading into it's doors sat a man, reading a book. He seemed not bothered by the steam that escaped his mouth upon every breath, or that he was not wearing a jacket, but rather intent in his book. To him each word revealed a new detail in this world he had become lost in, but he did not care, for the world of words far outbested the world that he lived in, and what he was about to experience.
Soon, the fading sunlight he was reading by was cast away by a shadow of a man, whose footsteps he had heard approaching. Not looking up from his book, he muttered the words "Thanks for meeting me here."
"Didn't take that long to get here. Maglevs move really fast, and Arkham isn't that far away. So... why the informal meeting?"
"Well, it just seems that inside an office, it's not as relaxed.. and there's press waiting just outside the doors. Here," he jestured to the nearby doors of the town hall "we are outside the doors ourselves."
"Yeah, so what did you make me come over here for?"
"Well, my good friend, I had a vision. There are some 40 odd major universities in both of our countries, correct?"
"43 with attendances over 50,000."
"Right, right. Well I was thinking. What if we had a sports league for.. well, every sport? It'd be a great way to benefit popularity for the universities, gain TV ratings, and find athletes for our pro leagues. Think about it.. we could have any and every sport that the university is willing to sponsor."
"That take years, even decades to implement, even if it were to pass parliament and council."
He then removed a folded sheet of paper from the back of his book and handed it to him. "In there, you'll find council approval, as well as letters of implimentation from Alotion International University, Toryo College, and Koehler-Rathje University. I've got Kingsford, now you get Oglethorpia. Take this to Parliament. We're going to have a College Sports League."
A cool october evening dawned in the quiet city of Findlay. The town was overlaid with a blanket of thin clouds colored by the setting sun, trapping the cool air.
The town hall, it's brick structure accented by the bell tower, lay in the center of the town, peering over the two and three story buildings to the south, the tree dotted park to the east, the sprawling residential neighborhoods to the north, and the stadium and wheat fields to the west. At it's steps leading into it's doors sat a man, reading a book. He seemed not bothered by the steam that escaped his mouth upon every breath, or that he was not wearing a jacket, but rather intent in his book. To him each word revealed a new detail in this world he had become lost in, but he did not care, for the world of words far outbested the world that he lived in, and what he was about to experience.
Soon, the fading sunlight he was reading by was cast away by a shadow of a man, whose footsteps he had heard approaching. Not looking up from his book, he muttered the words "Thanks for meeting me here."
"Didn't take that long to get here. Maglevs move really fast, and Arkham isn't that far away. So... why the informal meeting?"
"Well, it just seems that inside an office, it's not as relaxed.. and there's press waiting just outside the doors. Here," he jestured to the nearby doors of the town hall "we are outside the doors ourselves."
"Yeah, so what did you make me come over here for?"
"Well, my good friend, I had a vision. There are some 40 odd major universities in both of our countries, correct?"
"43 with attendances over 50,000."
"Right, right. Well I was thinking. What if we had a sports league for.. well, every sport? It'd be a great way to benefit popularity for the universities, gain TV ratings, and find athletes for our pro leagues. Think about it.. we could have any and every sport that the university is willing to sponsor."
"That take years, even decades to implement, even if it were to pass parliament and council."
He then removed a folded sheet of paper from the back of his book and handed it to him. "In there, you'll find council approval, as well as letters of implimentation from Alotion International University, Toryo College, and Koehler-Rathje University. I've got Kingsford, now you get Oglethorpia. Take this to Parliament. We're going to have a College Sports League."