As a DSFL team, my London Royals do tend to get involved a lot of the time with very silly penalties in key situations. Although really, a lot of those penalties actually haven’t affected the outcome of many of our games, since the score for the other team tends to increase so fast it wouldn’t have mattered much anyway. There is one exception to this in my mind though; week 9 at home against the Minnesota Grey Ducks. The score at the time of the penalty was 23-7, but our offense was really getting a good drive going at that point; we had taken 5 minutes off the clock, sure, but it was still progressing well - with a first and 10 from Minnesota’s 32 meaning we were quietly confident of at least 3 points coming our way. That was until Dreamster was called on a somewhat questionable Illegal Block above the waist, that set us back 10 yards away from the posts. Our team was despondent as we were once again taken out of realistic field goal range by an external factor and - even though we got back to the Minnesota 28 to make it a 45 yard FG - Curri missed wide right to make us pay for the refs belligerent penalty call. The team would then begin to play in a more angry fashion, and that was rewarded with a 4th quarter TD and 2 pointer to bring the game within a score. In the end though, we fell short of getting that TD to have a chance to tie… by 1 yard, as time expired when Rotini went down inbounds at the 1 yard line. Could we have one if the penalty hadn’t put us in a bad spot in the 3rd? Probably yes. But that’s just football, and I prefer to be proud of how our team handled the situation afterwards over complaining about the call any more than necessary after the fact.
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