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Controversial Competition
Joshua Schweitzer
On Thursday, October 11, the junior men faced off against the senior men in what was a very intense and entertaining dorm football final. At halftime, only one touchdown separated the two teams, which made for a very exciting finish. However, in the end the seniors thwarted a junior team comeback, coming out on top by a score of 12-0.
The juniors entered the championship game as the underdog, as the speed and strength of the senior men’s team was unmatched by any other team during the 2007 regular season. The seniors finished the regular season with a perfect 4-0-0 record, before sweeping through the quarter finals, the semi finals, and eventually the championship game.
“I feel complete for the first time in my entire life,” senior team captain Matt Dirato said. “There has always been a void in my soul. I’ve tried filling it with drugs, fancy cars and huge houses, but nothing would fill that rift. Now that I am champion of the dorm football world, I can honestly say that the Grand Canyon-sized whole in my heart has finally been filled.”
Aside from the many positives coming from Thursday night’s game, there was plenty of controversy swirling around campus regarding the two teams in the final. The September through October football league runs by the name of “dorm football”, yet the two teams that met in the championship final were not dorms at all.
“3G is the best dorm football team at Trinity Western University, as we never lost to an actual dorm”, a player from the dorm of Fraser’s 3G proclaimed. “The only team that we lost to was a team of senior students who thought that they were better than everyone else because they were ten times our body mass and because their parents chose to have sex before ours. Why is there even a junior and a senior team? I thought it was called dorm football! TWU needs to rethink it policies in regards to dorm football, because this is ridiculous.”
Is this dorm football player, and many like him, just a sore loser or does he have a valid point? Does Trinity Western need to rethink its team requirement policies, or does the title of the league simply need to be changed? Does it even matter at all? You be the judge.
The 3G guy actually has a point I think, just that he comes across as a sore loser and a little bitter (seniors aren’t arrogant like he seems to infer). And if you’re going to state something like that, one should have the guts to give one’s name (not sure whether that’s his fault or MH in this case though).
All that being said, here’s how I’d modify the dorm football structure:
1 possibility: Make McMillan a dorm, Robson a dorm, and Fraser (guys are there now right?) a dorm for the purposes of dorm football and eliminate the distinctions of junior and senior.
2 (another possibility): Keep the junior and senior teams as is but just put some restrictions on who they could “recruit”. I.E., only seniors or junior who are living on campus could play…no commuters, no alumni. That might help level the playing field a bit.
My two cents.