I was going to run tonight, but I ended up getting a lot of running in that I wasn’t expecting. This morning I went to Scott and my brother’s flag football game. In their league, they need to play with a girl. A girl has to get the ball at least once in four downs. Today, there was no girl, which would mean that they would have to play a person down and would only get three chances to get a first down, so I stepped up and played along with my brother’s girlfriend.
Every Sunday, the Philadelphia Flag Football League has games in King of Prussia. There are ten to twelve teams every fall and spring season. Team America is the team that Scott and my brother have played on for the past year and a half. My brother’s friend, Chris, is really into the league and makes shirts every season. He made a special one for September 11, the day the fall season started. It had the twin towers on the back and said “proud to be an America.” Now the shirts the boys and girls were say USA and have the names of the guys from the Mighty Ducks on the back. Usually each team plays once a week, but this week there were two games Team America had to play.
The first game started at ten o’clock against the Saints. When I started playing, I didn’t know how good the Saints were, I just knew that they had played at the nine o’clock game and would be worn out. That was not how the game went. On third and gender in the second half, I was thrown the ball, but I had it knocked out of my hands by this dude who was a foot taller than me. I was really pissed. I had a chance to get a first down, but I just couldn’t. In the last two minutes of the game, Team America was up by a touchdown, until the Saints threw a long pass and scored, making the score tied, nineteen to nineteen. The Saints ended up getting running in the extra point, since there is no field goal, and they won twenty to nineteen.
The second game was at eleven o’clock against the Stallions. They played at nine o’clock also, but not against the Saints. The Stallions were a good team and had two girls on their team. Team America ended up scoring first, which gave our team a lot of momentum to keep going and not giving up after a loss in the game before. We were all tired as hell but it didn’t stop us. We ended up winning 27-19.
It was a lot of fun playing today and I was surprised by the endurance I had to run and play in both games. I don’t think I would have been able to even play for the first half of the first game if it wasn’t for the running program I started at the end of August. Playing today made me want to get back into the program. I really think I will start again in December, once school is out of the way.
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