Non Ultimate Topic

So, I don't know if any of you watch Sportscenter religiously like I do, or if you follow the NFL closely. But the other weekend Donovan McNabb made some comments about black Quarterbacks in the NFL....

"People are trying to dig too deep in this whole situation," he said. "I wasn't pinpointing particular people. What I said was the fact that we (black QBs) have to do a little extra. No matter the style of play you're displaying, there's always going to be criticism."

"There's not that many African-American quarterbacks, so we have to do a little bit extra," McNabb tells HBO. "Because the percentage of us playing this position, which people didn't want us to play ... is low, so we do a little extra."

I honestly don't get why he brought this up. I don't want anyone to think I'm racist because I don't like what he said, I just don't understand why the race issue always has to brought up. I mean, how many starting black quarterbacks are there in the NFL right now? I don't know but I'm guessing maybe 5-7. Ok, Donovan has a point there aren't alot of black QB's....so what? I want one of you to name a starting white running back in the NFL.... hmmm tick tock tick tock. Ok, name a starting white cornerback in the NFL, there was just an article on MSN today saying "What happened to the white CB?". Then look at wide receivers, I know there are white wide receivers but how many are considered to be the number 1 WR on the team.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, why bring up race? It seemed to me like he was getting called out on his shotty play and going 0-2, and came up with some sort of reasoning as to why it may be harder on him. But of course I'm not a black man, and I most likely will never truly understand what he is saying or where he is coming from. I guess personally, I feel like our society pulls the race card way too fast sometimes.
(Ex. "Duke Lacrosse Scandal" "Michael Vick Case" "Barry Bonds")

I dunno, I guess I'm kinda confused on the topic, maybe it's because I grew up in Eden Prairie and I've been kind of sheltered my whole life. But please I don't want anyone to think I'm racist or anything, this is just something that I was thinking about and I'd like to hear some opinions.

David

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Heavyweights

So I have realized that Im not very good at posting about tournaments, the main reason being that I don't really pay attention to everything that well. Usually I just get too into the game and don't really remember the fine details of everything. So, here's a brief summary.

Saturday.....

Goat vs. VBB
Goat was good. Every player was like 6'3 and taller, or so it seemed. And they could all throw and were athletic. I sat out this game because I didn't warm up enough before we started doing a huck drill and i tweaked my hamstring. We never were really in control of this game at all, they went up a few breaks and that's kind of how it finished. I think the final was 13-9 or something like that. I do believe that if we played our best and played two good halfs of ultimate we maybe beat them.

Last Call vs. VBB
This was an important game, we needed to win this one in order to make top two in our pool and move up to the power pools. This game was pretty back and forth the whole time, we were just exchanging O points most of the way. Then I think it was 9-9 and we pulled upwind. I got down on the pull as fast as I could (which i like to do) and marked my guy, which was the force side handler. He positioned himself a little too far downfield, at least I think so. And the handler in the center had the disc, I was eyeing this guy the whole time and you could sort of tell he had tunnel vision. So he threw a pass downfield and I had a pretty nice layout poach D. Rob picked up it quickly and threw a backhand to Nickel Slots for the upwind break. It felt pretty good to do something worth while. Then we got two more breaks after that and won the game.

Sir Duke vs. VBB
Not really an exciting game. They had like two guys who did all the work, the blonde long haired kid and the sweat pants guy. I will give the blonde haired kid credit, he worked his ass off the whole time and played pretty much every point. But, this team wasn't very good, noone could really break except for the two and they also had a small number of players. This game was never really a challenge, and we win easily 13-8 or so.

Power Pools.....

Big Ass Truck vs.VBB
I dont really remember this game much probably because the day was getting long and hot. I do remember that their offense was pretty efficient at times and didn't have much trouble scoring on us. Sorry, thats all I got. Bat wins by 3 or 4.

Madcow vs. VBB
These guys were dicks. First and foremost.....dicks. And I know people will say "oh you cant let a few bad apples make you hate the whole team" but yes I can, and I do. Kent, however, is a really nice guy. This game was also back and forth alot, offense scores easily, theres does too. But we broke them a few times I think and took a pretty comfortable lead late in the second half. They make alot of bullshit calls and then continue to argue and talk about them for like 15 minutes. This one guy called travel on Joe Dimes like 10 times, when all he was doing was catching the under and pivoting out. Maybe if the guy could actually defend Joe he wouldn't have to make up travel calls so much....dick..... But we were up 9-7 and I think we were pulling, they score their O point and then break us so its tied up at 9's. Then....they break us again and they're up 10-9, our O line works hard and puts it in to tie it at 10's. In the middle of that point the horn blew and the game was capped at 11, so Universe. We put up a good fight in the last point but just couldn't pull it out, but it really isn't fair when you've got 7 guys on the field calling bullshit the whole time. Que sera sera.

Sunday....

Sub Zero vs. VBB
We were all waiting for this game again, I think there was a little bit of nervous excitedness running through everyone. We started out on D and they score fairly easily, using their tall athletic receivers who all look exactly alike on the line....Do you guys do that on purpose? Matching hats, wristbands etc. Our O line looks good and we trade O points up to 3-3. We pull upwind and get a D, which I then decide to turnover on an IO backhand break to Karl. Thankfully, we get it back and march it up wind to score for the first break of the game 4-3. But then they took a timeout and had a little run. They scored their O point and broke us twice in a row. From that point on we traded mostly and they ended up winning 11-9. I was happy with how we played this game, but it woulda been nice to win..... Feel better Jerome.

Frontline (madison) vs. VBB
I dont want to really talk about this game. We start out strong taking half 8-5 and we receive downwind to start the second half. I think our small rotation of O line players are feeling a bit fatigued and we get broken a few times in a row. We end up losing this game by 3 or 4..... Tough loss, I think we got tired out and our hearts weren't fully into it.

Overall it was a good weekend, hot, the fields are still really hard on the feet but it was worth it. The 9 1/2 hour drive back to Duluth sucked balls, especially since i drove the whole way, and got pulled over. Tail light out my ass, but I got let off after going 95 in a 65....eek.

Time to rest and eat pizza.

becky