Saturday, June 16, 2007

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = Unfair Advantage

My cousin Victoria just graduated from high school. (Congratulations Victoria!) In order to celebrate the occasion appropriately, a bbq with friends and family was in order. The weather was nice and Pat, having a little soccer fever from watching the Gold Cup matches all weekend, decided to get a little pick-up game going. In order to make it fair they split the teams by the sum of their ages. That left Pat against everyone else.
Some people might think that 5 against 1 is an unfair advantage, but not for my Pat. He managed to dominate the Munchkins in the first half. So much so that they had to reevaluate their strategy. Jonathan was the first to try some new moves.
It seemed to slow Pat down a bit, but apparently not enough. It wasn't long until Kyle began implementing phase II of the new strategy.
This seemed to even up the competition, but it didn't satisfy the Munchkins. They were out to win.
Just when Pat started thinking they couldn't pile anymore players on him they launched the sneak attack from the back. (I'm still not sure how she got there!)
In the end, it was draw. The Munchkins managed to slow Pat down enough that he couldn't score, but unfortunately for them, they had no players left to put one in the net.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's a my boy!! Super soccer player and child magnet!!

Shauni