Mayhem!
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THIS IS COMPLETELY unrelated to Atari. Just so you know. 
Last night I played in the 8th game (of 10) of the winter season of my soccer league. We play weekly, year round, and I've been playing with this team, Mayhem, for about five years.
Last season we pretty much dominated, going 7-1-2 before the debacle of the championship game (which involved a sh***y ref, a red card, and losing 
).
This season, despite having mostly the same players, hasn't been so rosy. Before last night's game we were 3-3-1, had lost two in a row, and hadn't won since the 3rd game of the season.
So it seemed like more of the same when, by about the midpoint of the first half of last night's game, we were down 0-3. What made matters worse, immediately after the third goal our keeper was ejected 
from the game for yelling and cursing at the ref. Our keeper thought that the opposing scorer had scored off of a handball and was understandably incensed. Pretty stupid to cuss out the ref and get kicked off the field, though. 
Fortunately, our backup keeper is actually a better keeper (he just isn't willing to play as keeper all the time).
A brief digression about the league: it is a co-ed league; all teams are required to have no more than six men and no more than six women on the field at all times. For safety reasons, no slide-tackling is allowed, you can't attack from behind, and you generally have to play under control - if what you are doing might hurt someone you will more than likely be whistled for a foul. We play in the Seattle area on various surfaces; last night's game was on a crappy dirt field.
So the ref was kind and didn't give our keeper a red card, just two yellows, so we were allowed to continue play with eleven players. It seems the combination of circumstances fired up our team, and we began playing harder than before, determined to stop the losses. And stop them we did! Our 2nd-best player scored twice before the end of the first half, and so at half-time we were down 2-3. But we didn't let up! 
We dominated the 2nd half, scoring twice while preventing any further goals with some excellent defensive stands against their very fast, very good forwards.
End result? We won 4-3! Damn that felt good.
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