Happy Birthday America!!! I celebrated my 236-year-old freedom from the tyrannical throne by tackling college students. We played the College All-Americans today, and we came out pumped from the kick-off. Actually, I think we were pumped from the time we woke up this morning. We followed our game plan exceptionally well—we had a ton of positive tackles and shut them down up the middle, while hitting holes ourselves and running around them.
The All-Americans had a few brilliant moments and scored 12 points on us. However, we overwhelmed them with 66 (I think) points of our own. I got some run at wing in the second half and scored twice. Now, I’m not your typical wing, so I didn’t run around those quick little young’uns—they got the stiff arm—but it was a lot of fun seeing the field from a different position.
All in all, we played great. My MARFU roomie, Eli, had a great game at scrumhalf. My current roomies, Bui, showed off her stiff arm of death at fullback. Ashley, another of my MARFU teammates, played a beastly game at lock. Our forwards, in general, dominated the pitch. When they weren’t winning the CAA’s ball in rucks, they were running through the defense and scoring tries. We really clicked today—ironed out some wrinkles and progressed in our attack and defense. By Saturday, I expect that we’ll be firing on all cylinders.
Following the matches, we all gathered in the lawn and had ice cream and cupcakes to celebrate the fourth. And by that I mean we had fruit options, but I went for the Fat Boy ice cream sandwich. I also had a Philly cheesesteak and a couple (ok it was four) fries at dinner (woo hoo for 10% nutritional cheating). I have to say that the food here at UNCo had been pretty darn-tootin’ good. They’ve had a variety of options, even fried food for the band campers (I’ve heard that grease and batter are really good for blowing into instruments and finger mobility). However, the Philly cheesesteak left something to be desired—as in, I desired more steak and more better steak—but then how can one expect Greely, Colorado to perfect a cheesesteak from Philly. Colorado, I hear, is better with green chili.
There were also fireworks tonight. We had been told that there would be none, due to the fires and general dryness of the state, but Greely put on a dag-gum good show. Happy Fourth, everyone!
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