New Mexico Game

As I sit here writing this Blog (weird word) it hurts to get up because we had our second game of the season last night and all I do is run and get hit for 2 ½ hours so as you can imagine im pretty sore today. At the old age of 27 my body cant take as much of a beating as I used to and growing up with 4 brothers probably cut a few days off of my recovery time. Some already know that on Friday night Chelsie and I got engaged and ill let her elaborate on the whole “how did he do it?” but yesterday we played New Mexico who I really wasn’t all that impressed with. On the first play of the game we had a play call just for me and I ended up scoring my 2nd TD of the season. We jumped ahead of them by 15 in the first half but in the second half we had 4 people get hurt so they chipped away and ended up taking the lead with about 2 min. left in the game. We got the ball back and got a couple penalties to start the drive so it was very frustrating. It was third down and we only had a minute left in the game and I told my coach to run the same play that we ran the first play of the game which I scored on. At this point I was exhausted and really only had 1 more play in me so I made sure that I got open. We were about 35 yards out from the end zone and Wissler (our QB) put a ball in the corner of the end zone and I snagged it for the go ahead touchdown. I looked up at the clock and there were about 50 seconds left which is a lot of time to score since the field in arena football is substantially shorter. Since our defense is very sketchy we actually ended up giving the game away with 8 seconds to go on a 4th down play. I was fired up. It would have been nice to be the hero of the game but oh well. I think im going to start playing defense because our team needs help. New Mexico wasn’t that good and im pretty sure in a couple weeks we will beat them down there in New Mexico. That was our last home game for 3 weeks and we will be traveling to Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico. So far it has been a great experience to play in these games against some pretty good competition.