the rainy season

yes. those of us in the state of georgia are suffering from a historic drought. for about two months now, we've been told to shorten our showers, refrain from running the water while we brush our teeth, and reminded that "every drop counts". i myself have tried my best to be conscious of my water usage and minimize where i tend to waste. you may see no relation whatsoever with this drought and flag football, but i will soon make clear the irony of it all.

in september, i signed up with a flag football team...for the most part, we all know eachother from RUF but were not technically associated with them this year. i wasn't in charge of the team name selection, but when i found out our name was a mouthful "we make it rain", i was a little puzzled. it wasn't quite witty or intimidating or relating to our association with one another like all other team names in our league. i was told it derived from some rap song where "making it rain" references throwing money into the crowd or something. okay. still doesn't make a whole lot of sense. but we went with it.

well, our first game it sprinkled the whole time. our second game it misted. our third game got rained out. our makeup game got rained out. we managed to make that third game up finally, and our fourth game was dry, but we lost that one. we made it through our entire fifth game before a thunderstorm broke out. we only had a little precipitation for the first game of the tournament. it began pouring halfway through our second game and they had to call it quits for the night. our third game of the tournament was the semi-finals, but no rain was to be had. we lost.

maybe you can see the pattern, but i'll make state it a little more matter-of-factly. despite us being in a severe drought, somehow it rained practically every thursday night for us. we thoroughly enjoyed the irony, and though through this post i've basically skipped over the juicy plays of the season, that is probably the best way to summarize. we played well, had some great catches, near misses, knuckles separated, bruises, scrapes and everything else related to a great football game. i somehow managed to rip the shorts off a poor girl in the tournament. that was entertaining.

jonathan came to almost all of our games and brought his camcorder, so he's planning on making a clip of the season and all. perhaps i'll be able to post it on here. anyway, all in all it was an awesome season of rain.