absolute mania, football-stylee

the season opener against seattle was ridiculous. they started out getting a field goal on their first drive, then we scored and made it 7-3. from there it was back and forth until halftime; it didn't hurt that they had three turnovers in the first half. it sort of offset the fact that they were raping our pass defense. it was something marginally untoward like 24-17 in their favor at halftime.

the second half was a comedy of mis-calls, wasted challenge flags, poorly-timed penalties and the like. we got the ball after a rather incredible turn of events involving an interception by the seahawks' brady blade in which the pass richocheted off of three guys before rolling off the arm of my running back, squirting six yards across the field in the air and right into his arms. however, once we had driven halfway down the field, on a quarterback scramble for first down on third and long the quarterback simply dropped the ball (he wasn't hit or anything) and turned it back over. the seahawks were still up by seven at this point, and we marched downfield and scored to tie it with a minute left. not to be outdone, they somehow managed to cover 67 yards in three plays and not use a single timeout (the facts that we got called for a totally bogus pass interference and then their receiver made a catch with essentially half a foot in bounds that we couldn't overturn because we'd already used our challenge flag both helped). they kicked the game-winning field goal as time expired, only to be FUCKED when they got called for holding while the kick was in the air. they moved back 10 yards, time expired, we went into overtime. in which we promptly won, 41-38. freaking seahawks. they always give us the craziest games.

le touchdown strike:

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bowes runs it in from 48 yards out with 5 minutes on the clock for the tie:

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