Week 4 vs. Orlando Predators
This was by far the craziest game I have seen yet and this game was the epitome of
Arena football. YOU ARE NEVER OUT OF THE GAME.
The game started off bad for us. We had trouble hanging onto the ball. I think we
lost three fumbles in a span in the first half. Before we knew it we were down 40-14
in the second quarter. When I was with the Marshals, we never got down 40-14. To
make things worse we were playing Orlando and they are our rival. But our team
never backed down. We played hard the whole game and waited for the ball to
bounce our way. We ended up getting a fumble on a kickoff return that sparked our
team. With that turnover and scoring on consecutive drives, we were only down 12
at halftime. Plus we got the first possession of the second half and we were within
five points. We went from being down 40-14 to 40-35 in one quarter.
Then they scored, then we scored, then they scored, and we were about to score
but we fumbled on the one yard line while trying to stretch for a TD. They turned
around and scored on their next drive. We answered with a TD then they kicked a
FG to bring the score to 64-49. A bunch of people left the arena thinking the game
was over.
After a pair of defensive stops, we scored a TD with 39 seconds left to go. 64-56 bad
guys still. Onside kick didn't workout. They tried to run the clock out but we
stopped them with good defensive plays and timeouts. Their kicker could have
easily put the game away with a 22 yard FG, but missed. That left a whoping 16
seconds left.
Stafford completed a pass to Lawrence Samuels, a 13 year veteran, who stretched
across the goal line with 0 seconds left on the clock. 62-64. We went for the 2 point
conversion and got it on a broken play scramble by Stafford. Into overtime we go
and over half the fans left not thinking we could ever come back.
We got the ball first in overtime and ran out of gas, we couldn't move the ball and we
missed the FG. They got the ball and drove down the field and kicked a FG to win it.
It was a shame because that would have been awesome if we could have won that
game after being down 40-14 and down 8 points with 16 seconds left.
Oh well, that is how the game goes.