Aaaaaaaaand it's the kickoff!
"Meet the Favres" played some down and dirty sandy flag football on Monday night. Everyone on the team except 1 is deaf and most of us have never played competitive football in any form.
I tried out (briefly!) for my high school football team, the William S. Hart High School Indians. This year, it looks like my school is not the number 1 team in my area (which has grown tremendously from 4 high schools -the 4th was graduating its first senior class- to 6 full size high schools in 10 years). I got frustrated when the coaches basically had no willingness to work through my hearing loss and thus I had to walk out of tryouts. Been into volleyball 100% ever since!
I hope this team learns quickly, as there are a lot of little rules in the game such as 2 women must be on the field at all times, there must be 3 people on the line and standing shoulder to shoulder to snap the ball, players have to shout a count to 3 to then go after the quarterback.... it's a madhouse on the field when you can't rely on your ears to play!
We're gonna practice tomorrow and hopefully we'll be a bit more cohesive now that we've tasted how the game is played.
Some action shots below. All photos courtesy of John Slaughter.
I wonder how do you manage to play with CI on?
ReplyDeleteI actually don't play with it on - there's just way too much action going, and with the sudden turns and jerks and accidental bumps, it's liable to go flying. So, off it goes.... and the other team gets an advantage of audibles. Well, we get our signing going so maybe that's an advantage in itself ;-)
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