Old and In the Way
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Sun Nov-15-09 10:50 AM
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A shout out to Maine Maritime Football team! |
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(Disclosure: my son is on the team, so I'm not exactly an uninterested observer)
Maine beats Curry for the New England Football Conference championship game (Div.3). Best game I've ever witnessed in my 45+ years of game playing/watching (ok, i'm a little biased). Curry, the Boyd Conference champs were the consensus pregame favorites and had homefield advantage...but little MMA proved to be a worthy opponent. Maine has the #1 rusher in the country and the #1 rushing team (D3). They set the single game Div.3 record this year against Coast Guard, over 700 yards.
Maine got in the hole early, down 14-0 about 5 minutes into the game. They battled back to just down 21-20 at the half and took the lead early in the 3rd quarter. They went back and forth through the remainder of the game. Maine going up by 7 with a little over 2 minutes remaining...then Curry marched down the field and tied it up with just under 2 minutes. Maine started to stall on the last drive and it looked like the game game would go into OT.
Thank, a most amazing finish. With a few seconds left, a pass went incomplete, but Curry was called with pass interference. With 1 second left, Tyler Angel, the MMA quarterback, threw into the Curry endzone...pass was deflected and fell into Alex Coulombe's hands...touchdown! Unbelievable ending...the only one I can remember that was similar was Doug Flutie's last second TD against Miami in 84.
Sp MMA, the little team that could, is going to national championship round...ESPN will be choosing the match-ups today at 3:00...this proud dad and mom will be watching the show and wondering if we'll be taking a trip later this week.
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Sun Nov-15-09 11:48 AM
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1. Other than the Doug Flutie comment---congrats. |
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Mon Nov-16-09 04:45 PM
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5. What's that you are referring to tru? Maybe we should |
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Sun Nov-15-09 12:15 PM
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2. Awesome. I have a team to watch in the play-offs, now. |
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Fight song, please, Old and In the Way.
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Thu Nov-19-09 05:17 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcMQVCSdk-MI sent this to my son...I think this should inspire 'em. :-)
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Thu Nov-19-09 07:43 PM
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Now, root on my Iowa Hawkeyes to beat the Golden Goofers of Minnesota!
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Thu Nov-19-09 09:32 PM
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10. Do you have a video of the team singing it? |
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Thu Nov-19-09 10:06 PM
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13. I can't get my son to listen to me |
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Edited on Thu Nov-19-09 10:07 PM by Old and In the Way
doubtful the team will.....Hell, I'll try to get them to play this fight song. Stay tuned!
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Sun Nov-15-09 04:19 PM
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3. Cool! I know their hockey team is pretty good. nt |
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Thu Nov-19-09 04:24 PM
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6. I think you're confusing them with University of Maine / Orono.... |
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MMA doesn't have a hockey team, but we do love our Black Bears up here! ;-)
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Thu Nov-19-09 11:40 PM
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16. No, I know UMaine. I know someone who went to MMA. nt |
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Edited on Thu Nov-19-09 11:41 PM by Captain Hilts
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Mon Nov-16-09 04:33 PM
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congratulations to your son and the team!
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Thu Nov-19-09 05:19 PM
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This is a David vs. Goliath match-up...MMA has 800 students...Montclair State has 13,000....should be fun!
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Thu Nov-19-09 09:35 PM
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11. Good luck to the team from Castine. |
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Thu Nov-19-09 10:17 PM
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None of the local stations even mentioned the game.
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Thu Nov-19-09 09:51 PM
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12. Let me know if the team is ever on ESPN if I haven't already missed it |
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That was a really good game and would be interested to seeing your team play. Thanks for that. :thumbsup:
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Thu Nov-19-09 10:22 PM
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If MMA win..Stay tuned! It will be the surprise of the century...
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Fri Nov-20-09 10:15 AM
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17. I hope you get the chance to beat Mount Union. |
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