This year's Blue and Orange...er...White game saw an fun new format change. Instead of 1O/2D vs 2O/1D, Coach Pease and Coach Kwiatkowski got to draft their teams. Now, I've got to be honest: I didn't think the White team had a chance. I figured the Blue team would roll them. I was pleasantly surprised when the White team pulled it out in the fourth quarter (of course it didn't hurt when Coach Pete notionally "injured" a few stars from the Blue team). It was a fun format change and I hope we'll see it become a tradition.
Enjoy the pics. I had the camera on the wrong setting for most of the first half so we're a little limited on good pics.
Huff warms up the O-line
Vinnie,
Gingg, and O'Neil visit on the sidelines
DB's warm up
KW's first reception happened so quick and was so unexpected that all I got was the aftermath
A few names that will haunt opposing offenses this year
DJ Harper looks
up field as Will Lawrence and Bronson
Durrant scan for defenders
Jeremy Avery goes down
I could kick my own butt for having the camera in the wrong setting. Bacon busts out a big run. Hope to see him in some
trickeration and
goal line plays this season.
Kellen lets fly
Coughlin hands off to DJ Harper or Jarvis Hodge
Darren Koontz eases off of
Coughlin on what would have been a
devastating sack for major lost yardage
Jeremy Avery breaks through
Trench warfare
Kellen passes to an out of place Chandler Koch
The blue team celebrates Titus Young's TD
Brotz boots it in for the PAT despite the celebration penalty
Coughlin unleashes in time to avoid
HoutA
few more guys to watch for
Hout brings down
CoughlinMore trench warfare
The new
SHOOOOOOOOE!!!! celebrates while Brandyn Thompson grits his teeth
The White team celebrates
Caves is flabbergasted that Mike T. doesn't want to take Prater's spot
Tim Ruben picks up a few yards after his reception
It was nice to see Mike
Choate get a reception
Drew gets under center...
...only to get taken down
I had the pleasure of
visiting with Tommy
Gallarda's father during a layover in Minneapolis earlier that day. We found the
Gallarda family after the scrimmage and Seth was pleased to get to meet Tommy. The family is very down to earth and friendly.
We informed Bacon that the
SEZ idiots were adopting him now that Joe
Boz had graduated.
Seth plays center on his Optimist team and was stoked to get some pointers from Thomas Byrd
We ran into Doug Martin in the parking lot after the scrimmage. I thanked him for hammering the
vanhole logo last year at the
Kibbie Hut.