The Mites and the Parrots fought like a couple of angry birds from the opening kickoff. Poly took a 6–0 lead. Then Pickett moved the offense sixty yards with seven straight completions. He dived into the end zone for the tying score, but the extra point fluttered right off the post. The teams were so even that it seemed appropriate that the game would end in a 6–6 tie. “We didn’t lose,” Paul Smith told his teammates after the game. “So that means that Mighty Duck stays.”
