Pace on Earth

Hang `em High

We played our last Super League game of the season on Sunday in NFLD and that game doubled as Scotty's last game. He didn't tell the boys before or after the game. He let us know with an email and a link to his blog (check it out). I had an idea that it would be his last Spruce game but I never gave it too much thought knowing I'll be playing with him again for the Loyalists in a few weeks. But as I read his look back on his provincial career the accomplishments are staggering. Scotty played over 70 games representing New Brunswick. That in itself is amazing. What's more amazing is that the number does not show the huge amount of time spent traveling around the province getting to training, or the countless trips to Gary Keeling (Physio) to compensate for a reckless disregard for his own body, or the untold thousands of dollars needed to step on the field all over the country. That number also doesn't mention that he is most likely the Super League's all time leading point scorer and that opposing team's knew a close game was only a stroke away if Scotty was on the field. Most importantly, that number can in no way translate how much fun he (and we) have had doing it; that can't be quantified. He started 16 years ago playing with local legends and became one of the most decorated players ever to represent the province and a legend in his own right. Now he will spend his early summers on the sidelines with Team MacAfee.

His late summers and falls though, well, we still get those. As I've told him before, you can retire from provincial rugby but you can't retire from club rugby. You can only change roles. Like becoming a kicking coach so someone else can slot them from 50. Get on that.

Thanks Scotty,

Si

posted by Vitamin S @ 5:31 p.m.