Weevil History

The Weevils started out with several Griffins from the Rec Zone and a spattering of others to make up the ranks. This team moved to the Factory Ice House when it opened and was put together as the Broadcasters. Daddy Weevils – Chris ‘Weber’ Rohan and Pat Thomas coined the name ‘Boll Weevils’ on a boating trip during mass consumption of ice cold beverages.

The Weevils started the 2nd season at the Factory and made a bunch of friends right off the bat. The Ringers were our fiercest competition on and off the ice. For several seasons we played in the C league searching for but never finding that championship season.

From 04 to 06, the Weevils were original and serious about hockey and beer. During 06 the league started getting more competitive and we had to split and make a B team and a C team completing the first phase of Weevil Nation.

06-08 was a great stint in the B league as the Weevils were in first place at the end of the season 4 times. But we never found that championship jacket.

Short Story by Weber~

On December 11, 1919, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields but forced residents to end their dependance on cotton and to pursue mixed farming and manufacturing. A beetle measuring an average length of 6 milimeters, the insect entered the United States via Mexico in the 1890s and reached southern Alabama in 1915. It remains the most destructive cotton pest in North America.

By mid-1921, the boll weevil had entered South Carolina. In a 1939 interview the Federal Writer’s Project, South Carolina native, Mose Austin recalled that his employer was adamant, “he don’t want nothin, but cotton planted on da place; dat he in debt and hafter raise cotton to git de money to pay wid.” Austin let out a long guffaw before recounting, “De boll weevil come… and bless yo life, dat bug sho rompin on tings dat fall.” Austin remembered the following spring, his employer insisted on planting cotton inspite of the warnings from his wife, his employees, and the agracultural experts.

De cotton come up and start to growin, and suh, befo da middle of May I looks down one day and sees the boll weevil settin up der in de top of dem little cotton stalks waitin for da squares to fo’em. So all dat gewano us hauled and put down in 1922 made nuttin but a crop of boll weevils.

By the late 30′s the destructive fury of the boll weevil was widely known. As America entered WWII, scientist hatched a plan to release the boll weevil into German and Italian crops to hamper the Nazi war machine. The plan was never carried out.

Because of the boll weevils’ remarkable resilincy, it was chosen as the first beetle to fly in space aboard Jupiter 13, in 1968. As the reader probably guessed, the weevil came back unharmed. Fearing the mission would be mocked by the public after its success with the beetle at the helm of the spacecraft, the U.S. government pulled of a huge conspiracy by creating the ficticious story that a monkey actually being onboard.

By the late 70′s the boll weevil had migrated all the way north to parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Agricultural experts noticed that the boll weevil was a quick adapter to environment and it’s shell got thicker, and small blade-like appendages began to form on the insect’s feet to better help rip apart the cotton bolls and “skate” from plant to plant. An evolutionary marvel, the weevils taught themselves basic field annihilation stratagy and worked together as a swarm to destroy a 100 acre farm by lunch and stil have time to raid the farmer’s fridge for any left over beers.

The modern day Boll Weevil has now achieved it’s true manifested form; with four full skates and a stick for a nose, the insect is comfortable slashing through a poor southern farmer’s field or laying waste to any and all opponents on the ice hockey rink.