Broomball Success!

Team "We Grade Your Papers" won its first match tonight 2-1. It was awesome! I forgot how much I love running around on ice in sneakers with a stick with a hard rubber triangle attached to the end of it chasing a squishy ball the size of a grapefruit trying to hit it between two traffic cones placed roughly four feet apart. (Welcome to Broomball!)

A note on our team name: We're a team made up entirely of graduate students, which is somewhat unusual in intramurals because most doctoral / graduate students are usually too busy writing papers to do things like intramurals. However, we like a little bit of fun (or exercise, or excuses to put off doing papers) in our lives. We primarily play against undergraduates, and some of them are actually students of our team-members. (Most grad students TA - although I don't have to as an MDiv). Needless to say, it's great to threaten them with F's if they beat us. We wear red shirts to remind them of the color of the ink we will use to write that big F on their papers.

A little intimdation goes a long way.