MIZ-ZOU

I know I said I would post Thanksgiving Day pictures next...and I will, but I wanted to make sure everyone is aware of Mizzou's victory over kansas. It was a great last second win by Mizzou and it definitely changed a bad day into a good one. Yesterday was not going to go down as a good day in my book, but then Mizzou sacked Todd Ressing (kansas quarterback) in the endzone for a touchback, which lead to Mizzou marching down the field and kicking the game winning field goal as time expired. Poor Ressing...same thing happened to him two years ago in this game. Hahaha. Sucker. Now my day will go down as a great one in my book.

You may be wondering why my day was not a good one until Mizzou won, and that had to do with a combination of lack of sleep (totally my own fault) and a terrible flag football game. I came home from work yesterday and couldn't fall asleep. I slept maybe a total of three hours not consecutively, because I went to an award ceremony for Cara. If you have ever had the privilege of being around me when I am sleep deprived you know how cranky I can get. Being on a plane with a crying baby is more fun than me on less than 8 hours of sleep.

At the game we were playing the team that beat us due to the poor officiating last week. So, we were all pumped and feeling like we could pull out a victory. Things were going okay until Cara got injured. She took a brutal hit in the first half and slammed her head on the ground, which resulted in her being taken off the field in an ambulance. Turns out she partially separated her shoulder. After she left it was downhill from there. Granted we were probably all a little distracted from the fact that we just saw our star player get carted off in an ambulance, but bottom line is we played like crap. Our defense was terrible and I blame myself. My head was not in the game due to lack of sleep, being cold, and not having Cara as my safety net in the backfield.

We couldn't make anything happen on offense either. They were beating us by three touchdowns and had the ball with less than 2 minutes left in the game. Instead of just running the clock out (like you should do) they kept playing like they wanted to score again. This resulted in one of our players breaking her nose. Last play of the game, they go for a pass and as one of our players is trying to rush the quarterback she gets head butted in the nose and both players hit the ground. Our player walks away with a broken nose. Needless to say I was pissed. This play never should have happened. They should have just run the ball and let the clock run out on us, but I guess they wanted to kick us while we were down so they tried to score again. Resulting in one broken nose and one of our best defensive players being out for our next game.

So, it was going to be a bad day for me. Then Mizzou won and I am happy again.