Coupeville Sports

Truth.

    One of many images I get when I Google “Han Solo finger.” Lesson to self: DON’T Google “shower boys” next time.

What exactly is a “Han Solo finger?”

I ask because, as part of the many stats my site tracks, one is search engine terms. And, according to my stats, the term “Han Solo finger” has brought people to coupevillesports.com FOUR TIMES.

That disturbs me on several levels. One, that people are googling “Han Solo finger” in the first place, and two, that it brings them to me. FOUR TIMES.

Of course, even more disturbing is the many times that some variation of “shower boys” pops up. Let’s just it’s WAY more than four times…

You let Brian Norris celebrate his birthday by posting a picture of eight towel-clad Wolf baseball and soccer players doing the group shot thing in the CHS locker room, and next thing you know you get a lot of traffic from people who I’m probably sure are looking for … something else than what I’m producing.

Some of it makes sense. There are a million variations on people looking up my biggest stories of all time — a fisherman who went missing in town and Hayley Newman quitting the South Whidbey girls’ basketball team.

Then there’s Jai’Lysa Hoskins, a superb Wolf athlete whose name can apparently be spelled 2,609 different ways.

The most frequently searched athlete, if you don’t take days to add up Jai’Lysa’s totals, is Wolf sophomore, and three-sport star, Aaron Curtin.

Rounding out the top five: Ana and Ivy Luvera, Wiley Hesselgrave, Allie Hanigan and Makana Stone. Jae LeVine tops middle school athletes.

But it’s the weird search terms that intrigue.

Apparently typing in “grandmas playing sports,” “dogs and cats living together,” “puppy eyes man,” “ol’ fattie” and, my favorite, “spike balls smell” all bring you to me.

He said, with just a hint of pride in his voice…