Tyrch’s BodyBlog

As of April 22, 2008 I retired from playing football. The injuries that have been mounting have finally become too much to deal with. The laundry list of injuries range from battling gout to having tendonitis in both elbows since last February. I felt it was high time I listened to what my body has been saying. For now I am just going to rest up and heal. As these injuries start to heal I’ll be getting back into the gym. Now that I’m not playing ball anymore…I can actually try and cut some serious weight. My goal…260lbs.

Well life after the old regime has been a bit hard. All of the BS and mind games are gone, but we were left to reconstruct the team after a majority of the guys decided to pack it in. The new coaches are good football guys and the new players are just there to play. A lot of the whining and playing favorites is gone. There has been a lot of turnover from last week’s game to this weeks game. I just hope we’ve got enough talent to get the job done.

Last week I only managed to play about a half before I sprained an ankle. It was one of those fluky things where I was trying to make a tackle on an interception and my foot got stuck on the turf. It has heeled a lot fast that originally thought, so I am going to be ready for a rematch with the Slaughter. I just hope the rest of the guys are ready to go for this one.

Another game another loss. This is getting a little old. Basically we played the played, arguably, the worst team in the league and lost. To be honest…our defense couldn’t stop an old lady crossing the street. The offense did as much as it could scoring 53 points. We were in a track meet until our starting QB went down at the end of the 3rd. Overall….we lost 62-53 as a team.

This week we play a .500 team in Marion, OH. There are some changes coming to the coaching staff being that our OC quit the night before the game and a new coach was added earlier in the week. At this point…all we can do is get better. Hopefully we can get somethings figured out as a team and finally get that elusive 1st win.

So we lost again this past weekend. The score was 60-34. It was one of those losses that just make you start questioning everything you’ve done up to this point. I did not play in the game due to an "acute gout attack". I can honestly say that this Gout thing has been the absolutely most painful thing that I have ever dealt with. I would have easily traded another knee surgery over the pain I got in my big toe from this thing. I’m just glad it has started to go away, so there’s a decent chance that I am going to play this week.

That’s about the biggest thing that I learned from this thing…this team really needs me at Center. My backup, who is a good friend of mine, didn’t really have the greatest of showings. He’ll tell you he hates playing Center anyways. He’s more of a Guard/DT type. Center takes a little more finesse than those positions. He did a good job, but there was way too much pressure on the QB for my liking and I there were one too many sacks given up by the line as a whole.

On to Flint. Flint is an expansion team looking for their first win, like us. We’ve, at least, been able to score points against people where as Flint could only muster 8 points against their division rival/expansion team Saginaw. I’m hoping that we can get into the winning column this week and build some steam for our two game road trip that follows. Stay Tuned!