re: Twas the night before tipoff

Here is a limerick by Dixon Lanier Merritt

A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I'm damned if I see how the helican!

Here is a haiku by Quail

The pelican sang
"frick the heat, them stupid fricks"
And thus the Pels won