The flag football ninja

One of the things that took me off guard in law school was the number of extracurricular activities that I seemingly had to join. The reasoning behind this was that everyone’s grades will be pretty close to one another. Extracurricular activities would help differentiate you from the next person. That being said, everyone in law signed up for a myriad of extracurricular activities. Maybe its just me, but if everyone signs up for extracurricular activities... doesn’t that defeat the purpose of differentiating?

Law school is a land of extremes. For instance, when it comes to recreational sports they either were extremely wussy sports like badminton or incredibly violent like rugby. After seriously considering playing rugby for lack of a better sport, but, after seeing what it did to Brian Frye (a co-worker from my marketing days @ sasktel, who played rugby for UVic)... the only person i’ve met who had worse shoulder problems then i did... i decided against playing rugby. Brian was build like a bull, but he could barely lift his arms above his head.

Luckily, i wasn’t the only one dissatisfied with the selection of rec sports... My buddy Micah... from Idaho... felt the same way. We figured we’d be pioneers and start our own unofficial flag football team for UBC law. We joined the Point Grey flag football league which was run the the university. We play in the tier 2 competitive league and our current record is 3-1-1... not too shabby.

Oh yeah... our team name is “Penal Offense.” How perfect is that!!

Anyways, in a incredibly long and round about way of explaining the above picture... you all know that when my face gets exposed the cold for an extended period, my face swells up and I break out in hives. Since we play in the dead of night, it can get cold enough for my face to completely swell up if i don’t cover up. So i wore a balaclava for the first time last game. The opposing team actually called me the “ninja guy” when they called out who they were covering... awesome.

Here’s our rankings and our stats, they aren’t completely accurate... Vic and I got robbed of our touchdowns even though in one game we technically scored 26 points with only 3 touchdowns... dumb refs