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The Thrill of Victory

This is a bit of a building year for the Scooby Snacks, and our season was off to a pretty slow start. Our first game was cancelled by wet field conditions. Our second game was a crushing 15-4 defeat on the banks of the Rideau River, made all the more painful by numerous mosquito bites. Our third game was called off because of lightning directly over the sod farm, but not before the other team had scored 6 points against us, while we had only just got on the board.
But all that changed last night.
The game started off much like the others. We are still learning to feel one another out on the field, and getting to know one anothers strengths and weaknesses. We ended the half down, at a score of 8-2. We joked that we were just lulling the other team into a false sense of complacency as we were walking off the field. Then we decided that maybe we should change our defensive strategy. When we took to the turf in the second half, we were a whole new team. Things just clicked. The poor DiscGraceful players didn't know what hit them as we started scoring...and scoring...and scoring. We came back. And we won. In less than 45 minutes, we scored 13 points and won the game 15-12. It was the kind of game you tell your grandchildren about. "It was a hot, humid summer, back in aught-six..."
Now I know why people root for the under dog.