GAT DAMN SHIT ASS @#$! CRAP BUTT @#$! FART DING DONG @@#$@! CRAPALAPPA FRAKKING FART!!!
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So I'm playing the Undefeated Snohomie Panthers last night in an epic back anf forth battle. I get the ball in the 4th quarter up 17-14 on what... my 30 maybe... with 4:00 minutes left. I'm walking it up the field, eating clock like it's made out of french fries. Michael Turner is a 1st down machine. I march it down to his 3 yard line with about a 1:00 on the clock. A TD here puts the game completely out of reach. So I dial up my play, line up for the coffin nail score and...............
...baby monitor...
CANHawk Jr. is starting to sob. From past experience I know that if I can get to him in time that I can get him back down with very little struggle so I hit pause and race up the stairs. - At this point I need to mention that Mrs. CANHawk was scheduled to travel for work this morning and needed to be up and out of the house for the airport at 5:00am, so there was no chance at any help there for sake of a video game - He resists a little more than usual, perhaps the tension oozing out of me about not wanting to to leave Sno hanging and - perhaps more importantly - get that W was having an effect on him. But he goes down... eventually.
I race back down the stairs to find that the game had un-paused itself (It fricking does that!?) and I had taken 2 delay of game penalties. Great... so 2nd and goal at the 3 or whatever it was becomes 2nd and goal at the 13. Okay, I'm a grown up so I deal with it. I know I have to milk that clock so I dial up the iso dive out of the power I again. As the team is lining up.......
...baby monitor...
It's a little whimper again and there's maybe, what... 30 seconds on the clock? So I let it ride. I run the play, only half paying attention to what's going on - as the other half of my attention was on the sounds emminating from the baby monitor - I don't notice that Sno has loaded the box. I run for a gain of bupkis. Fine, whatevs. A nail in the coffin would have been awesome, but the field goal makes it TD or nuthin for Sno, so I hit the trey. Time to kick off, but...? you guessed it...
...baby monitor...
Only this time it isn't a little whimper. It's a full on whaaaa, followed by a thud, followed by a scream. Okay, I gotta go. NOW. So I hit pause and hope for the best. Race up stairs and find the kid has crawled over the guard rail on his Thomas the Tank bed and did a face plant - Mrs. CANHawk continues to sleep through it in the next room - and he's bawling his face off.
Fine. You win "responsability". I'll be a good dad and figure out what's wrong with Jr. Turns out he had over-pissed his diaper and it wa leaking onto his PJ's. The kid had only gone to bet 2 hours before, so where the hell all that whiz came from I do not know. I change his diaper at break neck speed, change his PJ's and get him back to sleep.
So I race back to the game. I guess I did get the kickoff off before hitting pause (which it had unpaused itself again... @#$!) because I come back and find the game in progress. I guess the computer just was picking default defenses and defensive assistant was controling my guy because when I get back, I'm on offense with the option to take a knee. By the time I walk (jog/skip or otherwise hussle) from my kitchen entrance, through my kitchen and to the couch in the family room to pick up the controler.... a dialogue pops up on the screen saying I have been removed from the game due to inactivity.
I guess Sno had thrown a pick against the CPU defense (?? I dunno, wasn't there to see it) and ALL I HAD TO DO WAS TAKE A KNEE to seal the win and the gat damn thing punted me for inactivity.
I am so incredibly pissed off at that set of circumstances!!! If it had happened in the first half, it would have been an 'oh well' moment, but for it to happen within SECONDS of a victory is stroke inducing!
So... Mr. Snohomie... that was an awesome game. Extremely competitive, great fun. If you're wondering just WTF happened to CANHawk... that's my story. So I guess we have to play that game again? it doesn't look like it made me lose by default, just rendered the game null and void. Too bad too cuz Julio Jones was having a career day; like 9 catched for 150 or something?
I look forward to a second attempt at this game. My apologies for bailing on you. It's really out of charachter for the kid to wake up that early in the evening, if it was after 1:00am I almost would have expected it, but 11:30 is unheard of for him.
Let me know when a good time for a second attempt would be and again, I totally apologize for flaking out.
Cheers.