Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for September 15, 2016

Maybe she wants to be an assistant trainer.

And Coach We Forget Her Name walks into the sunset … NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN

That massive alien claw in P1! Heather and Coach Dawes are lucky to avoid being captured and taken back to the mothership for a thorough probing. Of course, years of Milford showers means they’re prepared for the worst.

It would have been fun if Gil had told Barry to figure out what he loved and go do it.

And even more fun if Barry had said, “Um, can I start now?”

heather burns is better than rug burns

So how much longer before she’s on the football team?

Hey Mop Man. The only thing that could have made yesterday’s MUT better. would be if you used the color version. It would have looked like the first ever Sunday Gil Thorp. Good call on Coach Dawes too, She’ll join the Thorp kids among the disappeared.

In all reality , Heather when she joins the the football team will go through a period of rejection then grudgingly acceptance and finally become a beloved hero as she kicks a winning field goal to win the big game. OK nothing to see here move onto basketball .

Well, looks like soccer season is done already. I guess they’ve decided to move things along after baseball season took 6 months to end. We’ll have football from now ‘til the end of the year. And wouldn’t it be great if Heather was going out for QB on the football team rather than kicker? That would shock the world!

@carlmi: about 1 week (or Milford speak, it’ll be February, after basketball season in your town starts).

@Mr. Reality: Could she be the one who brings Gil back-to-back championships?

She’s not going out for the football team. She’s simply modeling the new Milford recommended outer wear for high school students who stop to get milk and bread on their way home after practice.

To be brutally honest, in P3, that’s one giant coffee bean they have and a field where the yard markers are painted 90 degrees from where they should be.

Do we know who is saying “Don’t laugh” in P3?

P-1: another High School Coach/Student scandal begins as Heather looks lovingly on the “brutal” coach.P-2: after their first encounter, Heather thinks…P-3: OK, don’t laugh, someone painted the yardage numbers perpendictular

This story arc looks like a real yawner. We need some real dysfunction (the normal Milford amount) to liven this thing up.

Not sure where this meandering plot line is going but, judging by the last I am confident that it will take at least 6 months to get there!T. Dium

So according to the coach, if you don’t 100% love playing soccer then you should quit and only do something you totally love? Which if applied to everyone would resort in not having a full team in just about all of the sports. And speaking of full, your morning is not full if you don’t read today’s Mopped Up Thorp.

Wait, so Heather saying, “can I start now” means at that point she quit the team and is off to find her passion? (I assume based on the “I should be sad but feel like skipping” thought.) Dumb.

Heather goes out for quarterback of the football team, thus ensuring a competition between her and Plawecki, or was that Piasecki, or whatever..

Sign Man usually makes signs of course, but Sign Man could easily paint yard markers in the correct orientation. JUST CALL SIGN MAN!

Everybody missed it! The coach told her she was a starting Senior. After so much brutal honesty, she just wants to go back and start now. WATSON, GRAB YOUR COAT. THE GAMES AFOOT. (Sherlock Holmes on Soccer) Stay tuned, Thorpians for the “Brutally” drawn out 50 shades of Heather.

@Ellisburkes & MOP: also Lou could be killed by a drunk driver sort of a deja Lou