Week 12, game 16

In which we play the Mutiny. The start of a 6 game stretch without Shrunken head...who had to report early for Coast Guard duty. I think all of us were relieved. I know that I was. I don't know that we were aware that we would be playing without the Lombard brothers for this game. This left us in a 1:1 rotation. The Mutiny has a large bench and are running neck and neck with Suicide Kings for first place in the league. It was apparent that we needed help in the first minute when they scored easily. El Capitan made some position switches, but it didn't seem to turn the tide in any way. The scoring just kept coming and coming. And the Mutiny fans kept cheering. You would think after it was 0-10, they would lose some enthusiasm....no.
Somewhere around 0-5 or 0-6, I decided this was a good time to win the bet with Capitan, so I tripped one of the Mutiny players and went smiling off to the penalty box. Hey, $20 is $20. Who wants to miss out on that? I played the rest of the game totally scared to trip someone again. I had tried to do this in other games with no success, but now that I knew how, I feared that I was just going to be some tripping assassin.
At the end of the second period, everyone was tired and pretty much over the game. The Mutiny never let up and we ended up losing 0-17. It was dismal. I did get some kudos from one of the Mutiny players which I thought was totally cool. I needed that. Having a hard time finding anything positive out of the loss. The Mutiny looked twice as good as the last time that we played them, leaving me to wonder....have we gotten worse? Or are we just the Green Bay Packers? Too rusty after the bye week?
After the game, I poked my head into the Mutiny locker room and apologized to the guy that I tripped and told him how he helped me win the bet. The whole team ate it up! I guess if we are going to lose to another team so badly, it should be the Mutiny. Who else tells you that you made a good play or laughs about you tripping them? Good luck to them on their road to the championship game.