As I write the very first sentence of this Tuesday Toss, I’m already worried that the column will be too long. And for me, your verbose, long-form ultimate scribe, to be fretting about that this early, it’s troubling.
I have strived to embrace brevity more regularly this season—if you haven’t noticed, the 2018 Toss has been closer to 5,000 words than 7,500 each week—but sometimes there are just so many stories to be told.
The Raleigh Flyers beat the Madison Radicals into an existential crisis nearly two weeks ago. Madison is one of the flagship franchises of the AUDL, and they’ve never before lost a game in such humiliating fashion or by such a wide margin.