DoGs and Tasers

Unfortunately things did not go as planned and my team was left walking up to the second highest podium spot yesterday to get our silver medals. We put up a good fight but our offense just wasn't as good as we needed it to be in order to win. All credit to the US representatives (DoG) who capitalized on our mistakes and won the gold medal.

We were just a bit tentative to start the game and I think the first point was the key point of the game. We started on offense and worked the disc up the field only to throw it away in the endzone. The thrower and receiver were both unmarked and we threw it away anyway. That just made us even more tentative and that was all she wrote. I think that had we scored that first point it would have gone a long way to relaxing our team and we would have won the game. We put up a good fight to get back into the game but it was just too little too late. We even had the disc three times to tie the game at the end but we kept giving it back and you can't keep giving those guys the disc; they're just too good.

I'm sad about not winning but if we had to lose, at least we lost to those guys. Even though I could have been playing for them I don't have any regrets about my choice of team/country. They were very humble in victory (it's always easy to be humble in victory) which eases the pain a tiny little bit but not much.

The US team are a great bunch of guys as were my Team Canada team mates which made for a fun post game mope-fest/celebration....

...which leads into the fun that happened at the Beer Garden after the game was done. It was pretty much just the players from our two teams sitting around having a few drinks to wind down when an American "Guts" players came by in a severe state of intoxication. I have never seen anyone as drunk as this guy. I don't know how he was even able to stand. Long story short, he got very belligerent towards one of my team mates, JR. I tried to talk him down but he was just too far gone. A few other players from both teams were standing around and the next thing I know he is trying to lunge at JR and I end up tackling him and pinning him to the ground with Greg Husak holding his left arm and DC holding his right arm. After lying on him for a couple of minutes some of his team mates came by to try to take him home. I asked them if they were sure that they wanted to deal with him because UBC security and the RCMP were on the way. They tell us it's okay and we all let go of this guy. He started to fight his friends and they end up tackling him about a minute later. Finally campus security shows up and they pin the guy again. Almost right after the RCMP show up and take over. Drunkasaurous Rex keeps fighting the cops and he just won't give in so they Taser him. THEY FREAKIN' TASERED HIM!!!! Right there, in front of us!!! The guy is so drunk it has no effect on him. They finally manage to cuff him and carry him off. I'm going to save this guy the humiliation and not post the pictures I took of all of this on Facebook... or maybe I will. I haven't decided yet.

That was my exciting Friday.

More about the rest of the tournament later.

DF