Don't let the current standings fool you: Team There Will Be Blood, otherwise and less interestingly known as TILJ, is currently 2-1. We were scheduled to play the Texas Law Review team tonight but, for reasons unknown to There WIll Be Blood, our opponents were "no shows," allowing us to log our first victory of the intramural flag football season. We were hoping to find another coed team to play with in lieu of our curiously missing opponents, but we were told no other teams had similarly been the victors due to forfeit at the second game of the season. However, as we were running practice plays, we noticed another team seemingly without an opponent and suggested a friendly scrimmage. Recognizing them as advertising graduate students, I asked them whether their team name was "Mad Men," which seemed to fluster them as they hadn't thought of the idea on their own. Forty five minutes, one touch down later, and two botched and unimpressive plays with yours truly as quarterback, the quip seemed to have done its unintended job: There Will Be Blood secured a second victory for the evening. Unfortunately, our hard earned scrimmage victory doesn't count toward our overall record.
