Spiel 6 Lubeck

Second post in a week! Alright I know its been a while since that has happened but trying to get back on track with my posting as well as getting some organizing done for my upcoming break here in July. I am going to try and travel around Spain, Portugal, France, Greece and maybe other places as well; we will see how much can be done in that short time.

As you may have read on the twitter updates we won our game against Lubeck. This game was our first game at home since the home opener 5 weeks ago, it was a nice change to not have to get on a bus and ride to our game. When I woke up in the morning and saw the rain I figured we would be playing in a wet game but an hour later or so the rain stopped and by the time of kickoff at 7pm, the field was dry and we were ready to go.

The lead-up to this game was a little interesting and unusual because of Ty’s injury he was unable to play and I was brought back to the defensive side of the ball to play safety. I was a little disappointed at first to have to switch back to defense because I am an offensive player and much rather enjoy beating the defender in front of me then having to stop offensive players. Surprisingly I really enjoyed my time on defense this week and also made a few tackles 3 solo and 1 assisted, unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of me making those tackles so you will just have to take my word for it.

All week I was taking repetitions on both sides of the ball hoping to be able to play offense as long as I wasn’t too tired to play defense. I didn’t know how realistic this goal would be since I am also on a few special teams so it was going to be a game time decision and talk about it on the sideline throughout the game to see how much offense I would be able to play. I knew if it was going to be as hot as the previous week it would be a lot harder but since it was an evening game and it rained earlier in the day I wasn’t as tired and was able to play most of the game both ways which was really exciting.

Here are a couple pictures from the game.





On offense I had a decent game, 4 catches for 87 yards and a touchdown. The stereotype associated with a lot of wide receivers is that of the showman and many like to celebrate a touchdown with a “dance”, but the people that know me from back in Montreal and university football know I don’t really do touchdown dances. Those that know me from high school well, they might think differently and say that I did like to celebrate when I got to the end zone or sometimes even on the way to the end zone.

I don’t really consider myself one of those receivers that do touchdown dances or celebrations but I will dabble in celebrations from time to time. During warm-up for this game, I was feeling very excited and was joking around singing/dancing as I was handing the ball to our offensive coordinator after each of my routes/catches I was joking around that if I scored a touchdown in the game I would do the electric slide in the end zone. Well, I caught a short pass and ran in for the touchdown but on the way I was staring at the field goal posts and instead of doing the electric slide; I dunked the football over the upright.



I have never been penalized for a celebration and didn’t want it to start against Lubeck, so instead of throwing it down really hard I made sure to get it over the upright and pick it up and hand it to the referee as quickly as possible. I think that generally referees will let some things go as long as it is done quickly, they don’t have to wait or chase for the ball and obviously isn't disrespectful to the other team (the respect aspect is open to discussion since some people believe any celebration is disrespectful and others don’t think celebrating is disrespectful, I am somewhere in between and think it is a situational dilemma).

Enough from me; let me know your favourite touchdown dance, if you agree or disagree with celebrations, are they part of the football? Why is it ok in other sports? Or any other comments.