Turkey Bowl XI kicked off on the Friday after Thanksgiving at 1:00pm on the Onalaska Football Field as it has for the previous ten years. For those of you not familiar with the Turkey Bowl, it is a game of tackle football played by Onalaska High School graduates, most of which have never played high school football. We had 15 guys show up for the game this year. Every year we get slower and more injury prone but we always have a great time.
The Orange Team- as captain I choose to draft players of the larger stature excluding Justin Kruse and myself. I did this for one reason, last year I drafted my team on quickness and was forced to tackle guys significantly bigger than me for 3 hours. I hurt for about a week afterwards, no joke. Heather made me promise that I wouldn't play as hard as last year.
The Black Team- captained by Mike Anderson. He drafted his team in a brotherly manner, having two sets of brothers on his team. It proved to be the difference maker, as the black team beat us 12-7. I like to think the game officially ended at halftime when the score was 7-5. By the way, in case you think the score is low, each point is a touchdown.
Both teams together, shortly before we retired to the local watering hole for a few beverages and bags of ice to nurse our injuries. There was only one significant injury this year. Keachen Abing took a shot to the head early in the game. As we approached halftime, Keachen asked Justin and I if he had been kicked in the head. We looked at his glassy eyes and asked him a few simply questions. Do you know how you got here? No. Do you remember the last 30 minutes? How long have we been playing. And finally I commented, "At least you got an interception." When Keachen quickly responded "I did?" it was then we decided that he needed to sit out the remaining part of the game and had someone gave his wife a call to come pick him up. Someone did take a picture of Keachen to prove to him later that he was indeed at the game. Can't wait for next year. Maybe someday Isaac will be playing with us.
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