Winter Big Turkey Bowling at Sunset Thursday 6:30pm

Call it a Rookie of The Year award. Jan Zimmerly may have still been wet behind the ears in regards to the ins and outs of an Underdog League, but when she assembled a team of six enthusiastic bowlers in the six hours before the Thursday night league started, showed up first, AND had a great time, she showed some true Underdog grit, and her potential to be a seasoned vet. Congrats Jan. Now if only we can find a name for your team.

This week's POTW honors go to Melissa "The Intimidator" Collett, and let us tell you, it was a long time coming. Melissa's got the pep in her step every week; she hustles to organize her team, she cheerleads, she makes suggestions about who looks like a good POTW (not this week). She is curious about rules, regulations, statistics, Underdog innerworkings, and has in fact challenged us to a ping pong death match in our corporate headquarters. If her team wins, they get some Underdog shirts, if ours wins, we get to program KEXP's music for a day. That's fair, right? Right? Hello?

Everyone likes a winner, but everyone LOVES an Underdog. While it's traditional practice to give the MVP (or POTW to you out there at home) to someone on the winning team in a Championship games, what kind of underdog league would we be if we did that? Truth is Jen Lefaive was en fuego Thursday night. She wanted that championship so bad she could taste it. Or maybe that was the Redhook she kept winning. Still, she gave as noble an effort as you can give in a losing cause, bowling a 162 in the semis, and a 181 in the death match. Sorry Jen, better luck next season. Have a beer on us. Oh wait, we already gave you all our coupons.