Albany vs. Milaca

This was the first home game of the season. As the locker room got more and more humid it was getting closer and closer to game time. The boys were all quite as night. You could have heard a coin drop in the locker room. Many of the guys were preparing themselves for the game. We worked hard all week sweating like dogs. Preparing for the team like they were the best. Everyone was intense waiting for the kickoff. As the kickoff went all I had in my mind was to get the tackle. All of the motion went to the other side of the field. Then the runner got consumed by purple. As the defense started I was thinking that I don’t have near as much butterflies in my stomach as I did the first game.

One of the first plays went towards me and I saw the action coming my way so I shoved my blocker off and attacked the ball carrier. As I tackled him for a 1 yard loss I got a knee right in the gut. It felt like getting socked right in the stomach. Then we got the ball and started marching down the field. When I went in for the first time on offence I realized that one of the Milaca guys said something. Then the next play we broke away for a touchdown, and we got the 2 point conversion also. When we shut them out on defense again we got the ball back. The next play for offence I got the ball and ran it for a 4 yard gain and got tackled by like 3 guys and all of them were talking smack saying “stay down” and other stuff I can’t repeat. We then proceeded to go down the field and scored another touchdown and another 2 point conversion. The game was quickly 16 to 0. As we kept playing they kept trash talking. Only when they were on defense they would trash talk, on offence we shut them down every time. By halftime it was 23 to 6 we were up. One play the quarterback was scrambling out of the pocket and cut back towards the middle, to his surprise he found Devin Ritter waiting for him. Devin laid a hard hit on him that made a loud “crack” like two deer in a fight as their antlers collide. The quarterback got up looking pretty dizzy. He went off the field with a slow stutter in his step like a dazed chicken. Then the game went on and they kept trying to play the same way with a lot of talk and a little game. The whole time they were trash talking we didn’t say anything back we just kept playing our game, marching up and down the field. We were stomping all over them. Although Milaca didn’t score the whole second half they still wouldn’t stop talking. They had the biggest heads and would not shut up. It became 36 to 6 and the 4th quarter hasn’t even started yet.

Then it became the 4th quarter and we punted once to them. Then forced them to a 3 and out. They punted to us and it didn’t take long for us to go down the field this time to score another touchdown. That made the score 43 to 6. With around 9 minutes left we started to put in our second defense. There is nothing better to see than a team with a loud mouth get kicked by our second string defense. Our defense forced them to punt. Then our second string offence got a chance to prove themselves. They got a first down on a 10 yard burst. Then slowly gained about 4 yards then we punted it away to end the game.