Team Gilbert didn’t fare so well against Team Amelia. We started out well (Well, Team Gilbert wanted us to be called Beat Amelia, but as that didn’t happen, we needed the name change) but then some CHEATERS took us down! UGH!

Amazingly we were all extremely competitive — and ready to take each other DOWN when necessary! There was some decent ball playing going on that day at Training Camp — and I’m not talking about the Ravens! We even lost one of our players to a torn achillies — Q HOPE YOUR SURGERY WENT WELL!

So, with the Ravens, well, we haven’t been looking so hot in the preseason. Hoping that poor preseason makes for good regular season! Preseason is there to help is work out the kinks, which is what I am hoping we are doing. We’ll see how we look tomorrow…

My fall & winter schedule literally is based around the home Ravens games. I have missed only 9 home games since the team arrived in Baltimore in 1996, mostly due to illness or unchangeable travel plans. (Those darned weddings, don’t people KNOW about MY schedule? )

So right now I am pumped. WHY? It’s TRAINING CAMP TIME! I am a founding member of the Lavender Ladies, a group of football obsessed women who could rival most men in terms of knowledge and understanding of the game. This is a group founded by the Baltimore Ravens organization. The group began as RAVENS 101 — for women to learn about football. What they found was we knew plenty — we just needed an outlet & fun times and to be surrounded with other women who thirsted for more FOOTBALL!

So, again, the pumped-ness. Next Monday is a flag football tournament with the other “ladies” (yes, the quotes is because I use that term very loosely — “ladies” most of us aren’t) at training camp! This will surely be a blast & I can’t wait to play!

Next week look for my follow up to the flag football tourney. Should be interesting!