starting the season...

i played in my first flag football game last night and it was AH-mazing.

colettie, amy, and i are playing with ruf (reformed university fellowship) this year. our team appropriately called the "ruf tuf" girls.

we haven't had our whole team get together and practice yet (which is mostly my fault, since i planned a lake trip on practice), so we met up about an hour before the game to get our positions and learn a few routes.

we played against a sorority who had practiced pretty intesnsely it seems. the quarterback had a armband with the plays in it for goodness sake. anyway, i'm a running back (i think)...i can't throw a football worth anything, so its perfect. get the ball. run. thats my kind of position. so about second quarter or so, i get a lateral pass and weave my way dwon the field to get a touchdown. glorious.

only it got called back because i was "guarding" my flags. which i wasn't. i ran with the ball tucked under my arm like anyone would naturally do. apparantly in flag football you have to run with your arms straight out and the ball in front of you or you are so called "guarding". i think it happended about twenty times. for one, who naturally runs with their arms sticking straight out? plus, i'm a runner...my arms need to pump at my sides. but i guess i'll have to get over it, since thats the rules.

it was a pretty intense game. since my touchdown was thrown out, the game was scoreless until the fourth quarter. then, they scored. which should have gotten called back because amy (who is amazing at rushing) stripped the quarterback of her flags before the ball left her hand...which would be a sack. but no. their touchdown counted (i know, i'm bitter). anyway, we finally scored with an awesome long pass into the endzone.

we sat at a tie game when fourth quarter ended, which meant overtime. on our first play in overtime, we scored with our quarterback running it in. we tried for the extra point...corrie threw to me, but it went behind me and i barely missed it. then they ended up scoring and one of our players pulled the girl's flags within inches of the endzone. still a tie game...and that was the end. kidna upsetting that we didn't continue into overtime, but oh well.

anyway, pretty boring/unexciting overview, but we had tons of fun! i'm so sore today...like everyone else. i'm so stoked for this season.