Whether Off Constantly wins, or loses, we always make the walk to the Noyer Food Center to pick out and decorate our “team cookie.”
No, this is not your standard cookie. However this is a whopping 12” chocolate chip cookie, with personally decorated icing on top. It’s nothing short of delicious and artistic to say the least.
It all started after our first game of the season last semester at Irving Gymnasium. We were all feeling a bit hungry and decided to stop by Noyer Cafeteria. After picking out my usual chicken poppers and fries, the dessert counter caught my eye. I couldn’t decide which of the delectable desserts I would indulge myself with. Then out of the corner of my eye, after eying the cheesecake, I saw a colossal cookie. Even though I couldn’t eat it all on my own, what better to celebrate our first win, and at that time perfect season, than a gigantic, icing doused, warm out of the oven, chocolate chip cookie. At this point the tradition of the Off Constantly team cookie was born.
The more than patient and interested lady at the counter asked what we would like to have the cookie say. We wanted to keep it simple with “Off Constantly” written around the top, and our current record, at that time 1-0, on the bottom. Then we asked her to just add random icing in all the open spots. She seemed confused at first because she was usually asked for happy birthday, happy anniversary, or other common occasions. She then did the unexpected by handing me a box of gloves and the icing decorators. I was more than willing to step it up for the team and make a delicious, edible art of sorts. Sure my first cookie was a big challenge, but after that they just got easier and more enjoyable to create and more importantly devour.
Besides the “Team Shower,” this is single handedly one of our biggest rituals we have as a subculture. It will live on until our season is over, and if there is a team next year, I hope we will let it live on, as long as somebody has a lot of dining plus, or some hard to come by college student cash.
I like the cookie idea haha. It's very interesting. It sounds like you guys have a lot of fun doing what you're doing. Also, props to you for keeping this site entertaining :D
ReplyDeleteLol..the cookie is hilarious. I had to look at it for like 5 minutes to figure out what it was.
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