Buzzards Circling the Septic Fields

"The weather is here, wish you were beautiful"…extra credit for the first one who writes a comment to this entry with the source of that classic lyric.

We wandered out today to play on the north fields and found the manhole cover removed (now it was marked with a cone but if you’ve seen "Shadow" run, you know this isn’t adequate safety measures). Also, there was the matter of the big blue and silver mobile sanitation engineers vehicles that was leaving 6 inch tire treads in our far end zone.

So we moved the field north a little more (playing north to south instead of the usual east to west). With Mallard in charge of surveying field dimensions we wound up mapping out a 100-yard long field by about 35 yards vice the 70x40 ish that we normally try to play. This combined with our new found emphasis on the rules and trying to pull with both teams on the end zone lines made for some interesting starts but I must say that we managed pretty well.

The long narrow field with the moderate breezes forced a short passing game for both teams that seemed to work pretty well. Brady definitely brought his “A” game yesterday and sliced and slid for a couple nice open scores, finding seams in the defense. Derek & Sniper returned from their IMT duties to rejoin us and the contact was at a minimum as “Boom Boom” especially cognizant of his ramblings only ran over one player today…and to be fair, the hang time on the throw that Lindsay was waiting for when he got hit, could have been timed with a sundial.

By the way, a belated “Thank You” to Travis for putting together our new team logo. I’ll let you know when I’ve posted the schedule for the mandatory lower back tattoos.

The weather has been perfect lately. Need to get in a good game today as tomorrow looks like it’s going to be a washout….although…and this could be a delicate subject…”real Ultimate players” are undeterred by a little rain. I’d be up for playing a rain game tomorrow if we have enough others.