Overall, a losing season, but we had a blast, everyone learned, everyone improved as the season went on. As a team, we let in fewer and fewer goals and kept the games much closer as we went along, eventually culminating in a win over a team that finished two spots above us in the standings and had thumped us 6-1 the first time around. We also finished 3rd overall in spirit points, and ended up with 11 goals when all was said and done (7 regular season, 4 playoff).
Goalscorers on the season:- Canadian_Bhoy, JonO, RPL Producer (all with 2)
- Damiiano, NooNeR, L-Wag, Jack, SuperMar (all with 1)
- JBang (1 own goal, but it was a beauty!)
- CB scoring our first goal of the season. After showing up 30 minutes late for the game.
- Related to that, CB is never allowed to do King Kong Bundy slams without the trademarked black, single-strapped Bundy suit again.
- Sparky’s first touch… tripping over the ball in the warmup while trying to take a shot. Fortunately, his first game touch was much more solid.
- In the third game, Sulfur and one of the opposing players engaged in “Ballet… Matrix style” (as Sparky described it). The takeout at half. And the casual “oh, foul!” call afterward.
- Pinkie taking down a long pass like a pro in the middle of the fourth game and then casually kicking it out of bounds for the other team.
- ”... and then I ate the bowl!”
- Damiiano backhanding a girl on the opposing team in the sixth game, and the exchange after going something like “Are you ok?”, “No I’m not ok – you hit my tooth!”, quickly followed by “Don’t you ever fucking touch me” when Damiiano tried to help her up. And we thought that he had a way with the ladies.
- Sparky going in against one of their players in the seventh game, both ending up on the field, and the ball going over the netting into the middle of the Ultimate game.
- In the last game of the regular season, we became the only team in the league to play three girls on the field at once… and we looked good while doing so.
- JBang, as noted above, scored her goal of the season in the first playoff game. Unfortunately, she managed to put it past L-Wag and hit nothing but mesh. The shame. The shame.
- SuperMar. First playoff game. 10 feet inside their half. Tees up the ball. Hoofs it. Everyone stops. Stares. Admires. Including their keeper. Which is likely why it was (as Jordan used to do…) “nothing but net.” Amusingly, their keeper spent 10 minutes post-game trying to duplicate the feat. With no success.
- trane made it out for the second playoff game, stepped up to the plate on defense, and despite missing several games on the trot, performed admirably. Then stepped up to the plate at Shoeless and paid for a bunch of drinks.
- And finally, at the end of that game, scored tied 1-1… RPL attacked the ball in the corner, pulled it out, ran along the goal line and smashed a shot through their keeper for a 2-1 lead and our first win of the season!
- Joe and Kim – The nachos they brought? Wow. As Sparky put it “Who ate all of the nachos?”
- Otherwise, we spread the players of the match around astoundingly well with the girls taking 7 of the 10 all told.
- JonO – our captain and nefarious leader missed the first game of the season. Not a good example to set, but there was something about a wedding. With an open bar.
- trane – he missed our third game because he was in trouble with the Attorney General…
- Damiiano – he missed our first playoff game because of a groin pull… or groin tug. We never got it clear. And honestly, I’m not sure that we want to have it cleared up. Wow. That makes it sound even worse than it likely was!
- L-Wag – she missed the final game of the season and had the gall to blame it on spaghetti, drinking, and snowboarding. Like any of that is more important than footie… well… drinking might be. Hard to tell really.
