The Valley girls are all far too familiar with Class 5A obscurity, finishing below .500 and without playoff berth for too many years to count before last season’s sub-regional berth.

My wife recently purchased four little light bulbs that cost a total of $8. The thing is, they were not the allegedly environmentally harmful 100-watt kind, but the permissible low-watt kind. They were, in fact, 15- and 25-watt bulbs.

"Underdog," for younger readers who might not recognize the name was an early expression of the '60s ironic-nostalgic mania for old-school superheros.