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In Golly lore, the Long Beach Flightless Birds became famous for the Double Pennant Revenge Reversal (DPRR) in Toroidal/Season 11 thru Toroidal/Season 14. Sure enough, the team responsible for the first half of the DPRR was their Ground Effect Crown rivals, the Salt Lake Turbulence .

• The Action (Toroidal/Season 11): Newton's Third Law stipulates that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The action, in this case, was the Toroidal/Season 11 drubbing of the Turbulence in the League Championship Series. The Birds bested the Turbulence 3-1, clinched the Cold League pennant, and won the Toroidal Cup. They asserted that the "ground effect" was inescapable, even on the looping topology of the torus. The Turbulence, meanwhile, began thinking of the Birds as a physical force whose grip, like gravity, couldn't be loosened.

• The Reaction (Toroidal/Season 12): The equal and opposite reaction happened the next postseason, Toroidal/Season 12, as the Turbulence swung the pendulum back in the other direction, riding out the chaos and defeating the Birds by the same margin, 3-1, before going on to win the Toroidal Cup themselves. It was a perfect, equal, and opposite reaction, and was a testament to Salt Lake's ability to analyze a problem and engineer a solution. As the Turbulence would say, the equations were balanced.