Buzzards Marching On

Well March came in on the wind…and unusual warmth. I was up on the ski slopes last Saturday night doing some unintentional laying out as I tried to tame a snowboard for the first time. Then on Monday and Tuesday those of us out on the fields were in shorts and shirt sleeves for the most part with temperatures in the 60’s both days at game time. But wow was the wind whipping. And on Monday the wind was coming in from the south which it does not do very often so instead of our normal cross wind there was a definite wind abetted and wind limiting sides of the field.

Enjoy some pics from Monday…


After Frank dinged his calf he took a few pictures from us. This was the only one where you could actually tell there were people in the picture....Zoom in Shadow!!! Thanks for trying though.

Todd looking very patriotic...flag in the background, flag on the disc...I'm proud to be an American just watching him.

"Come back here you stupid disc!" - Scott

Kelly needing longer arms to reach this one.

Bob flicks to Tom.

Eric getting reading curl that long arm into throwing motion.

The Mud Bowl

~ first guest blog account...from Rodney.

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Once the solicitation email went out on a rainy Friday immediate responses were received to my surprise. We had Visor (which came in handy with the rain), Mallard, Phil, Kash, Rodney, Scott, Matt, and Travis.

The walk to the field was what I consider to be the longest walk yet. I figured by the time we got to the field the rain would stop and all would be well, but I think it only got harder.

The field was set and the teams were good to go. Play commenced and so did the mud! I must say that the field was worse than I thought it would be. 5 out of the 8 of us had cleats and the poor 3 that didn’t were all over the place. Travis and Mallard were slipping and sliding like they were trying out for the Olympic Figure Skating team.

Phil threw a short pass to Mallard about 6 inches behind his impressive reach and there went Mallard sliding on his shoes like a barefoot water skier would on a sunny day in FL. Then as impressive was his skiing so was the crash on to the muddy field.

Needless to say when the game was finished so was the field. The players had more mud than clean spots and not a dry piece of clothing existed.

All in all it was a great game. A rainy, muddy day on the Ultimate field is better than a dry good day in the cube!!!!

Today’s Forecast: Around 40 degrees, light breeze at 8 mph, steady rain and mud…. perfect. Game on!