Where rain maybe threatened our good time this morning, none fell upon us on this glorious morning and game of Ultimate Football… except a rain cloud did follow a certain team in the end.
New Rules were applied: 1. A team can attempt a kick from 25yds out through the uprights and earn 2 TDs. 2. A defender who intercepts a pass can free run but also give up his run and throw while running forward. Once pass is caught, he is no longer the free runner. 3. Thrower can not advance forward but can scramble back as many steps as possible and left and right but cannot break the defenders established line. Defender can press upon thrower which moves the line wherever the defender moves to.
Team Captains Da Bear & Cookie picked formidable teams.
Cookie Monsters = Cookie, Crabby, Rudy, Pad Thai, Matlock.
Da Bears 85 Team = Da Bear, Fandango, Warby, Festivus, Hei Hei
The stage was set and highlights were flowing.
- Da Bears 85 shot to a commanding lead 3 -0. Cookie Monsters fought back to even it 3-3.
- Da Bear made some awesome catches, an almost pick 6 with burning Rudy on the outside but the leaping leprechaun got him barely with two sweaty hands and a frightened heart that said “I’m glad I wasn’t a penny on Da Bear train tracks!”
- Rudy had some deep ball catches that solidified why he is a solid pick. This elusive SOB was leaving DeLorean fire tracks all over the field… his routes looked like Ray Charles taking a piss in the snow spelling his name.
- Festivus strategized perfectly on his offense and defense to be the biggest threat out there on the field. Swatting down passes and catching some hot streaking passes.
- Warby was unstoppable in his game play. The man was open every time. The man was reliable every time. The man… was THE MAN out there.
- Matlock, Cookie, and Fandango were good game managers and moved the ball well with the precision of surgeons cutting up their patients.
- Hei Hei with the BALL RIPPING grip out of Rudy’s small, elfish hands that made him the reason we call him “G.I. Joe” and “Army Strong”… Strong enough to earn that ball from Rudy.
- Pad Thai was way too quick and elusive.. always slipping coverage and being open and using his golden arm to move his team down the field.
- Crabgrass, even though he was harnessing his Mahomes from the Tampa Bay Super Bowl Loss and Eagles Super Bowl Loss, was able to do stuff that still had our defense confused and off balance. Picking his targets and using the scramble video game mode to find his footing to launch. Sometimes heroes bleed … Sometimes heroes live long enough to become the villain… Sometimes heroes need to start with “the man in the mirror, asking him to change his ways, no message could have been clearer, if you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change… It’s gonna feel real good, shamone!”
Today was a beautiful day for a game made for boys where we as men showed up and relived our backyards heroics.
COT: We still pray for OHES nurse.
“In your name we play, Amen”