Flag Football victory!

Monday night was fantastic. I've been playing in a flag football league for the past several weeks. We've been playing our games on Monday nights. It's a 6-on-6 co-ed league.

That means there has to be a minimum of two girls on the field at all times. Also, at least one out of every four downs has to be a "girl play," where an effort is made to have a girl advance the ball forward.

It's been a ton of fun. The problem is we haven't been all that good. We've got some pretty crazy athletes; we just haven't been able to put it all together. You could totally tell we haven't played together before and all that.

But yeah, so two of our players were varsity athletes in college. Meredith played field hockey at Indiana and her boyfriend Chris as a pitcher on Indiana's baseball team. Needless to say, we like when Chris can be there to be the quarterback. Not a bad arm at that guy...haha.

We improved solidly each week, but still lost each game...until Monday! We were 0-4 heading into this week's game. We'd seen the team we were supposed to play around the fields before, and we knew they were a little older, a little slower and a little more out of shape than our team.

So you're saying there's a chance!

Yes I am! We won 6-3 (touchdowns only count for one point in this league)! I missed last week's game, but the week before I had my best offensive showing, scoring a touchdown under pressure to pull us within one with time running down. This week, I had my best defensive showing, taking an interception back to the house for a touchdown and picking up a sack two plays later.

Good times man. Good times.

So we're now 1-4! I'm not sure how the playoffs work, but I think it's probably safe to assume unless all the teams make it, we need to win out even to have a shot. But we've got our confidence now, and we know we can do it. Our defense (which was our biggest liability in our four losses) has really hit its stride, and we're realizing the key is NOT to have all our receivers run deep on every play...haha.

In conclusion, let's go Kiss My Tight End!

Laaater!
-BG