The Ultimate Win

What do Hoosiers, Rudy, App St. beating Michigan, anytime Duke loses in basketball, and the Wake Forest Med School first year flag football team’s victory tonight all have in common?

The Underdog pulled off the shocker

Backlog

A few of us first year med students put together a flag football team for a league here at Wake. We didn’t really know what we were doing and barely squeaked out a win in our first game on Sunday. We knew we had the odds stacked against us for our second game against the big and bad second year med school team. This team had been ridiculously hyped up. They won their first game 19-0 on Sunday and had as their starting quarterback the president of the student government (who spent his college days as a backup quarterback at Davidson). We heard about how they had speed, strength, and 14 guys to shuffle in and out to keep their team fresh. And they had already played a whole year together.

Game Plan

We showed up with 8 guys (7 players on the field at one time) and immediately decided to install a new defense. We put 3 guys on the line and rushed 2 with the other guy on the line dropping back as a middle linebacker. We figured we’d have to bring some pressure on the quarterback and mix up our looks or he would just pick us apart. The defensive backs played a cover 2.

The plan for the offense was to take advantage of short dump down passes and to eat up clock.

The Shocker

We got the ball first and immediately drove the ball down the field and scored a touchdown (big time catch by Trey).

First play on defense The Scrapper (yours truly) drops back into coverage, picks off the QB, and takes it to the 2. We punch it in.

Defensive stand.

Touchdown us.

At the half we were up 20-0 but were fortunate that the other team’s qb hadn’t hit his stride yet. Second half came and they got to as close as 20-15 but with back to back sacks (including The Scrapper’s game-ending sack), we cruised to victory. And the first year med school class pulled off the ultimate shocker.

Players of the game

Ed (our qb-played quick and smart), Trey (defensive coordinator/stud), Carey (sack artist/sickest athlete ever), Jimmy (great coverage/spiritual leader), Brent(lockdown corner), Nick(reads QB’s eyes/cerebral), Scott (made the sickest no-look lateral pass in the history of flag football)…

It’s 1 in the morning and I’m still wired. I’m jacked up man. What a big time win.

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