Winter football ended yesterday. I can't say I'm happy its over, but I can now be productive on Saturday's again for a while. I actually lucked out. With all the bad weather here 2 weeks ago while Vicki and I were in Antigua, the season finale single elim tourney was postponed, so I got to play.
Vandelay went 8-0 in the regular season (a first for Vandelay's 8 years of existence) thanks to a veteran offense with the B.O.B. and Mark Hedegore at the helm, and with what I will argue as the best defense in the league. We hit the first week of playoffs as the #1 seed (another first for us) and cleaned the clocks of the lowly 16 seed. Then the weather worked in my favor and we wound up playing this past weekend to close out the tourney.
With a dominant victory against a 5-3 ODP Mudders team we entered the semis against the only team we played all through the regular season with a winning record - Team Jager.
In a nail biter that came down to a no-time-on-the-clock play on the 2 yard line after a first play of the drive hail mary that resulted in a pass interference call (I pushed off - he pushed back and I got the call with some effective acting) we failed to get it into the end zone and walked away 10-1 on the year.
Our girls played a great season. Our defense was tenacious (yes, we were a tenacious D this season) and our O was as effective as I can remember. We just couldn't pull it off.
Vandelay will be back next fall with what should be the toughest lineup yet. We will get Will's and Loren's speed back, ShawnRoss' monkey arms back in the center of the D, and Mikey hands back. Based on our performance this season without those guys, I'd say we are going to be tough to beat.
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