FRIDAY.
i got to hang out with
Alyssa,
Frankie and
Timi, but only for a little while, I had to go home before 9. Its an unsaid rule, but I wouldn't want to wait for my mom to tell me so. My dad's home for 3 weeks (or 4) so every day is spent at home, or with family. I left at around 8pm.
I slept early because I was already up by 5am. Before I got to "really sleep", I got this message from nico regarding the next day's game. The message was just about him not making it to the game to coach us. It's totally fine with me, I can lose in every game/match over and over, but the fact that we simply don't know what to do is hard to face and accept, again, and again.
SATURDAY.
we arrived at xavier around 12noon.
The guys' game was still on 1st half. Griffins were against the Arrowheads. In their last game, the latter won with 70 pts. That's equivalent to 10 touchdowns and 10 conversion points. There weren't enough guys. On their next game, a few only showed up. And when they needed to ref this one game, NO ONE showed up. As in NO ONE!
So for our game, we were against Team M. THey are the women's champion. Yeah, they're fast and good. They're not like the Rogues who are like tall and all macho, but they've got SKILLS and a great coach (Paul Le). Oh yeah before I forget, Chris and Lou coached us. Flakey gave tips to our line people and to me, like when scrambling or looking for open receivers, or just about taking my time. I tend to rush myself that's why I often make bad passes. Those bad passes are usually short, thus, the opponents are able to intercept it, catch the ball and run it. There's this one girl from Team M, the half of the Manalo Twins, I don't know who's who, so she's just gonna be named GIRL.
Strike 1: I don't remember if I'm playing qb or safety but I was running to the left side of the field.Oh, I'm offense here. I think I threw the ball, I rolled out left that's why I was already going to the left side, then suddenly I felt someone push me at the back. I went down, faced down. My palms really hurt.I kinda shouted, "hindi ba pushing yun?!!!!!" I repeated it a couple of times, then no ref called it, then she comes with the "naninindak na face". She was trying to explain that it wasn't pushing, lalala...and i just said "asking! just asking!" Stupid for me to say that! Halatang nasindak ako. Katakot eh. Besides, they were all so serious. So fine, let's just make fun of what happened to me and oh yeah! Let's just laugh at Liz!
Strike 2: We were kicking for the special teams. Is this start of 2nd half or just a fourth down? I don't remember. I was beside Krissie, I think. Team M caught the ball and so I was after that girl who caught it. I was about to reach for the girl's flag and actually DEFLAG her, then there SHE goes. She pushes me really hard on my left shoulder. I fell down, AGAIN! ouch. So okay! That was a legal block. I think. But ouch, that hurt!
Strike 3: The twins were both playing D line. They crashed and went on my side and I got "pancaked". Line people should be pancaked, but unfortunately, I got pancaked. They were supposed to go for my flag LANG, but I don't know why I felt weak after that down. Oh yeah, they hit me really good. Both of them.
Strike 4: I was qb again. I threw the ball short. The ball was for lani, or marion or marga. I forgot. Haha. Then, SHE caught the ball. Then she ran the ball, no one got to her, so I just ran, followed her direction. Imagine two lines drawn, one is horizantal(me) and the other vertical (her) and when those two lines meet, they make a right angle, a letter L, a corner of a square. Thank God! I deflagged her! She wasn't happy about it. I gave her flag back, I smiled,and I didn't get any smile or whatever. So that was fine.
It's just a game, I told myself. We get hurt. We lose, others win. We win by having fun. We win by learning things about ourselves. We win by not thinking of losing and then giving up.
Did my last sentence make any sense?
I don't know what's happening to our team.
There were the guys' team.Then a girl's team was formed.Then there was ONE BIG TEAM.Then there were 2 Griffin entities.Then, we dont know when, there'll be only one entity, or none at all. No Griffins anymore.....? I don't know.
I want to play, end of story.
GRIFFINS BOWL 2005, Lingayen Pangasinan.
It was super fun.
Where did all the fun go?
