Who's afraid of the black man...

Nobody?

Apparently this is children's game here in Europe (Germany/Austria?). So here's the story...

Marvin, Jose, and I are driving on our way to a local school where we are teaching kids the fundamentals of flag football to build the relationship between the Seals football club and local youth. We were discussing drills or games we could have the kids do today during the hour or so we have with them. We talk about different versions of tag using the flags vs just taggin the individual or playing some type of capture the flag type game w/ the football being the "flag". Then Marvin explains to us a tag like game, similar to something I've played w/ a twist. It's call "Who's afraid of the black man". What makes it hilarious is that Marvin is a black guy from Austria and apparently growing up he often played this and would be the sole individual picked as the "tagger" since he was the fastest growing up.  The basic rules of the game are as such:

1. The game begins w/ a single tagger ("the black man" or Marvin, an actual black man in this case lol)
2. The sole tagger tags others who then also become taggers or "black men"
3. The initial single tagger states: "who's afraid of the black man". The group responds: "Nobody" . The tagger then says: "What will you do if he chases you". And the group shouts: "run". And the game of tag begins.

Now this sounds somewhat horrible, but we all died laughing at the cheer irony that A) Marvin often was the initial tagger at his school and B) that this game was allowed to be played at all w/ a name and back/forth responses like that. Ahh good times w/ my roommates

Updates...

Practiced for the first time in a week after hurting my shoulder in our last game. It felt pretty good to run around and catch some balls, also I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't hurt as much as I expected the next day. Still as a precaution probably gettin an MRI soon since it's a shoulder I had a prior injury to. Keepin' my fingers crossed on this one!

Also gettin pumped for this relegation game against Rostock soon, gonna be awesome to see how are team stacks up against these guys. Always excited for a challenge and the chance to compete. As we said at Willamette: "anybody, anytime, anywhere". So LET'S GO!!!

4 more weeks right now til I'm home and I can't wait for that first late night food run hahaha (craving some Jack in the crack or some Taco Bell lol :P). But really will just be great to get to some of the comforts of home. But now starting to think about what I'm gonna do once I'm back, and also whether this Seals team or another club will be interested in having me back next year? I'd love the opportunity and would definitely have to consider it if the offer came up. Let's see what happens!