Resurfacing looks to be the secret weapon poised to topple the Dogs from a glorious season.  Apparently North Park University has hired an incompetent bunch of licensed contractors to carry out their schemes for total pitch dominance in the city of Chicago.  Due to the efforts of the University to create “…the best damned soccer field this side of the Mississippi…”, the Dogs will have an extended three week bye, resuming play October 12^th when it will be well into nip freeze weather and flirting dangerously close to ball frost temps.  When asked about the lockdown, the league operators, Sports Monster Chicago responded, “We value your patronage, please accept these bar dollars for some shit hole pub where our supervisor knows the bar-back staff as a token of our appreciation and total lack of respect for you.”  Always looking to the next win, several players plan on honing their skills during the bye with weekly drinking events and visits to favored porn sites on the internet.  Said Nathan Melotte, Captain of the Dogballers,  “The team should be able to rally after 3 weeks of nothing but eating, drinking, sleeping and the occasional walk up the stairs but what concerns me are the finals scheduled for mid November.  The ball is hard as a rock and every time you try to make a header, well, you know what Christopher Reeves felt when he fell off that horse…… what, too soon?”