Last week we went to San Diego to see Kaden and his Fury football team in the NYS National Championship Tournament. It was so cool. Kaden's team, The Fury, played awesome and beat the three time defending champions of the tournament, along with another good team, the Hoyas, and made it all the way to the semi-finals before playing a 4 year undefeated club football team from Arizona. Kaden scored the first touchdown of the game, but we missed the extra point. Then the Blackhawks scored two touchdowns and one extra point so the score was 13-6. There was only a couple of minutes left in the game and we moved the ball all the way down to the 2 yard line. With 1 second left in the game, our quarterback Greg kept the ball and jumped over the defensive players and clearly scored...(we have video that shows his whole body crossing the goal line) but, the line ref said that he couldn't see, and so the three referees huddled and the ref that stood behind all of our players called it and said that our player didn't cross the line, "game over." What?! Our kids and the coaches were so upset!! I wish we could have thrown a challenge flag or that they would've reviewed the play and looked at the video...but no, the refs just hurried off the field. We still would have had to score the extra point to tie the game or a 2 point conversion to win, but they should have at least given the kids the chance to win or lose and not determine the game by a very, very bad call. Oh well, I'm certain it won't be the last bad call of Kaden's sports career...but wow, these kids can all really hold their heads high, they played GREAT!
Way to go FURY!
It sure looked like Kaden scored on this play, even though the ref didn't think he got the ball over... oh well, we scored on the next play anyway!
