A crazy fact about me is I have never actually won a championship in the many sports I play. This year seemed to be our year. We went into the Kiddush Club League playoffs as the 1 seed. We had a huge scare in the first round against the 8 seed but survived. And we went into the semis ready to survive again, without our best roster present and very much a next man up mindset.
The game started fine, we scored, they scored, was a very close game. Coming out of halftime we got a safety and the ball, poised to take a 2 possession lead. But we couldn't do it. Then some more back and forth, huge plays, we had the ball with a couple minute left and a 3 point lead. We were a first down away from icing it, but couldn't do it (they made some unbelievable plays), which led to them getting the ball back on the final drive with 1:22. They started driving, I made a touchdown saving play deep on a first down to knock the ball down, but there we were. 3rd down from the 10, man defense. I saw the ball was going to someone else and I pulled the flag at the 2 with ten seconds left. THey were in a rush to get set, and someone on our team felt we weren't set (Moro) so he called timeout. This gave them time to set a play etc. They ran a play to my guy who crossed over, I got my hand on it but he still caught it on a diving catch to walk off. I stood there stunned and in disbelief. I have now watched the play way too many times.
Football season was fun. I like to be commissioner, I like to lead Modiin. Playing time issues with friends became an issue, but navigated that to the best of my ability. We won some big games, lost the one that mattered, and that sucks.
If that wasn't bad enough, I had two more softball games that week in the playoffs, and we lost both. Actually was my best two games in a couple years, getting a bunch of hits against fast pitchers and catches in the field.
3 playoff losses in one week, in two different sports. Is that a record?
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