If that's how you want to look at it then sure. It'll be a "nice juicy little secret-revealing."

I dislike six o'clock games.

There are some good aspects about them, such as the fact that you have the rest of the night ahead of you, but for the most part, they give you little time to relax at the beginning of your weekend. As well, it doesn't help that the young squad of Team Gigantic is more accustomed to later games (me being part of those, though it could be a generalization).

Judging by my ranting, you probably could've guessed that we lost the game; we played abysmally. I don't think one member of our team had a good game by their own standards, including myself. We scored first (though I will admit, I was late; another reason to dislike a game at that hour), but then Academy (our rivals) had bagged four unanswered goals. I picked up a consolation goal in the last 2 seconds or so, and it was as strange as they get.

Jay had the ball, and decided to put a long ball in the corner for me. They goalie came out to claim it as it had bounced diagonally back into the field of play; it had hit the top of the corner wall section. The ball took a bounce on the ground, and hit it with enough force to place it inches over the goalie and his outstretched hands as he leapt to grab it.

The ball fell near where I was standing, so I took a few steps (I had been relatively stationary until this time) and lowered my head into it. It still had enough mustard to bounce off my head and into the goal relatively quickly, and as Derek said afterwards, "I saw the goal, and I looked at the clock. My head hadn't even turned fully and the buzzer went".

I came close to assisting another, as well. I had placed a perfect cross in, but a teammate did not flick their leg at it while they were in stride. They were about as easy as they come, and it was what I call an "idiot ball".

Yes, I realize that this is slightly demeaning (sorry, Derek), and that it does require a name change. Here's a picture that might make you happy. It was the first thing to come up on a google images search of "idiot balls".

The first thing to come up on a google image search of idiot balls.

Oddly, Academy was relatively friendly today. I got apologized to a couple times, helped up a couple times, and generally play was tame. As friendly as they were, the fact that they were playing the most terrible anti-football I've ever seen was not a nice thing for them to do to us (and me in particular, who ran between two defenders playing keep away for at least 7 or 8 passes). I can't really criticize though, because this is how I want the Eagles to play.

In spite of all this ire, I'm going to opt for some shut-eye, as I need to wake up in three hours for a snowboarding trip.