I just wanted to share my experience from Black and Blue 4 being a part of the blue team. I enjoyed every minute of it, it was soo amazing! As a bench manager, I sucked; I pretty much did the same thing that I do when I am at my seat, yell my freakin head off and swing my hands like a maniac. But I am pretty sure that is why I was asked to do it! I wish I could have been more effective at it, but hey it was my first time! Anyway, I had the chance to view a great deal of skaters that I normally do not have my eye on, see their quirks and understand (and sometimes not understand ) their decisions on the track. I spent the majority of my time ensuring that we received all our points that we scored. Not always did it go my way, but in no way did I feel that there was any bias in the decisions made. The first half was incredible I was on cloud 9, my team was racking up points and shutting down jammers. By half time I was dancing like I had never danced before! I remember finally looking at the stands at half time and saying “Holy Shit, there is a lot of people here”! As I watched the insanity known as Full Contact Musical Chairs, I could not believe the roars from the crowd, it was soo loud! And once again I placed my musical chairs bet,(mumbling obscenities under my breath at Magic) and lost.
The second half started up with me back on cloud 9, this is when I made the mistake of smack talking Ida Bitter on the Jam line, bad, bad, bad idea; number one – I love Bitter so it is hard for me to do, number two – when that girl get some wind in her sails nothing can stop her! Regardless, I cannot express how proud I was of my team, win or lose everyone played so well, it almost makes you cry (but I am no wimp; except when watching the notebook, then I am a total wimp)! It was so great to be a part of something so amazing; don’t get me wrong I love being a fan, but just this once it was nice to be something more. With the final jam being the deciding factor to the game, I couldn’t help but think about how if this was someones first time seeing derby, they have got to be in total amazement! Speaking of which, I had to teach my class the day after the bout and I had two new students; one of them kept awkwardly staring at me (I assumed it was because I am a young instructor) then he says “were you at Roller Derby yesterday” to which I reply “Hell Yeah!”. It turns out one of his friends had won tickets to the bout, so he was invited, he said it was some of the craziest stuff he had ever seen! Will be seeing him in March!
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone on the blue team, I love you all, you freaking kicked ass out there!

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