Table v. Flag

Last Thursday, I headed to Village Inn after a disappointing game of bowling (I scored 89. Seriously, who does that?). As we sat around the table waiting for our food to arrive, David and James decided to play a little Table Football. Instead of flicking the sticky paper from the wrapped silverware, they decided to slide objects from the table. The point of the game was to score by getting the object to hang over the edge without falling off. Once the object was hanging off, the person that scored got to flick the item through the "goal posts" to score an extra point.

They started with a sugar packet and slowly worked their way up to bigger things. Next came a packet of jam --> a salt shaker --> a spoon --> the jam caddy --> a full glass of water --> the salt/pepper/sugar caddy --> a milk shake --> a plate of food. Extra points didn't exist after the packets of jam for most of the items were unflickable; but don't fret, they still tried. David slaughtered James with a score of 60 (or more) to 13.

After church on Sunday, Colette and I finished my Cafe Rio salad from the previous evening. Once we had finished eating, we sat around talking and decided to play a little football with the empty tin. I scored so many times that we eventually stopped keeping score.

We tried flicking the tin for extra points but a simple finger flick just wouldn't suffice. We decided to try using all of our fingers to score extra points. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time it didn't.

Colette going for the extra point

After a few falls off the table and some overzealous flicks, our tin got a little dented...

Tonight we played Flag Football. Last summer, Doug invested some money into some blue and orange fabric. He cut all of it into strips and donated it to the cause of Tuesday Night Flag Football. We have tried to make this game a weekly tradition but with vacations and busy schedules it hasn't always happened. However, we enjoy the times that we do get to play and I am sad to see the summer coming to a close. We start at 8:00 and play until we can't see the ball anymore. We create different teams every week. We don't keep score and we always encourage the opposing team. It's clean competition-some of the best kind. Tonight Doug mentioned that it was the best two dollar investment he's ever made and I must agree. Thanks Doug for making that investment, for it has been well worth it.

The kick-off

The return



The down

Closing Statement: Although I prefer Flag Football for the movement and the higher level of competition, it really doesn't matter which one you play. You end up having fun no matter what.