If, come August 2021, you found yourself asking “Hey, where did The Jake Eldrenkamp Award go? Who’s our winner?”, you are not alone. Or, actually, you probably are alone, but that doesn’t make for as good of a rhetorical device.
What happened to The Eldrenkamp is actually quite boring, because what happened is that I forgot about it. And then a year went by. And then I remembered it again.
If you too have forgotten about it, the award’s full name is The Jake Eldrenkamp Award For Excellence in “Oh S*** he was Actually Way Better Than we Realized Until he Left and Now We’re Feelin’ It.