Kilroy
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- Nov 10, 2013
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Kohphi 350
2004 was a big year for the Bombers. The BigFooty Bombers were born.
Then came the cancellation of Kohphi‘s end of year holidays.
Those two events may seem unrelated … and Kohphi hadn’t even joined the Bombers yet.
The highly illegal ‘Gulf War’ in Baghdad had already begun and the SweetFA was in it’s fourth season when the BigFooty Bombers joined the competition.
Kohphi had his holiday planned to a place where he could just as easily spend days lounging on the beach, as he could be snorkeling amongst exotic marine life like leopard sharks.
When he was asked to postpone his holiday till after Christmas he went along with it.
Then came the devastating tsunami that wiped out the Kho Phi Phi Islands in Thailand, where he would have been on that day.
That’s where his username was born.
Four seasons later we had our first premiership and two seasons later in 2009, we were rebadged as the Baghdad Bombers and promptly won our second.
Harolad joined in S21 (2016), by which time we were again re-branded as the Baghdad Bandits - due to some foopy hijinx - and he persuaded KohPhi to join too.
They joined forces with others in re-directing the club to stop the cringe-factor and return to being the Baghdad Bombers again in S22.
As history will attest, they would go on to win back-to-back premierships in S23/S24 and the legend was born.
Kohphi would go on to recruit a formidable roster of future leaders and stars of the competition.
Himself a Qootball megastar, loved and adored by many, KohPhi continues to provide leadership and wise counsel.
As a poster he was twice voted top 5 in the Beez and is still around the top 20 all-time.
Life is too short to not have fun
To try to avoid pain is to give too many faarcks about pain.
It's the farrrks not given that makes all the difference
~ Kohphi
Congratulations on your 350th game mate.
Ophidian Old Boys
