Indoor Soccer Week 1

Most of you won't care about this blog, tough shit. I'm going to give a weekly update after each game.  I entertain all of you for free each and every day, you can suffer through one soccer post per week.

Week 1 of the indoor soccer season started last night and ended in exciting, yet ultimately disappointing fashion.  

The final result was a 10-10 tie (this is the disappointing portion).  As a competitive adult I have a huge problem with anything that is allowed to end in a tie.  While we all understand the league is for fun, leaving the game as a tie is a very bitter tasting result.  We're adults, we're not children playing tee-ball where they don't keep score.  I think we can handle winning and losing and still understand that its all in fun.  I fail to see the harm playing out an additional five minutes would have caused.  We played for 60 minutes and scored 20 combined goals, that's a goal every three minutes, its not like it would have taken long (that's what she said). Ok, enough with the negatives.

The exciting part came when our team miraculously scored the game tying goal with mere seconds remaining on a great assist from our goalie, The Huz.  Aside from the tying assist, The Huz gets this weeks game ball for two additional reasons.  First, his nickname is The Huz, I've typed it three times already and am still trying to think of more ways I could mention it.  I'm a huge fan of nicknames that begin with "The" so there was a good chance he was getting the game ball even if he had completely sucked (he didn't).  Secondly, two deserving candidates were disqualified for scoring own goals, fortunately for those two (who will remain nameless as not to bring shame to their families) the own goals will not result in the same fate as poor Andres Escobar (pictured above), this week anyway.

PS: Our team is still searching for a suitable name (The Alt Tabs was offered, however I've been told that corporate sponsorship usually comes with corporate funding, which we here at The Alt-Tabs do not have).  Currently we're recognized by our default name B-8 or our jersey color (yellow/gold).  Please leave a comment with possible team names and I'll submit it to the team for consideration.  That's right, one of you could be lucky enough to name our indoor soccer team (no cash, reward, or any other form of prize included, just the self satisfaction of bringing joy to a B-league adult co-ed indoor soccer team. If that's not enough for you then you should probably take a real long look at yourself in the mirror and evaluate what your life has become).