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Life Blogging!(true story)

Vikings  7   Away 18  4th quarter. 10 minutes to go.

It was our(vikings) ball. We had to score twice in ten minutes and we didn’t even need the extra point. Just two touchdowns. We start our drive off pretty good. It was about 3rd and 5, I don’t quite recall, and we threw a pass to our tight end. He catches the ball and runs down the sideline, stiff arming about 3 people and jumping over one tackle, to the end-zone. We get the extra point. Now we were down by only 4. We had to score. We kick the ball off to the other team. They throw an incomplete pass. They run a sweep for about 5 yards. Then they throw another incomplete pass. Now it’s 4th and 5. Then they run for a first down. Then they go through another 1st down through 4th down, but are stopped short. Now it’s our turn. We run the ball, and the next play pass to, you guessed it, the tight end. This time he catches the ball, but a flag goes up. He stops. Our coaches yelled at him to keep running, so he takes it down the sidelines, just making it into the end-zone before being hit. The flag was on the defense for pass interference. which is when they make too much contact with the guy trying to catch the ball. We got the extra point, so now the score was 21 to 18, us. Now there is about 2 minutes left, but none of us realized this because the clock said about 4 minutes. We had to hold them. Then our genius kicker kick the ball to their biggest player, and he gets to about their own 40. The start a drive getting them to our 13. They had a first down, and had to get to the 3 yard-line to get another first down. They throw a pass, which is deflected. Then they run two plays in a row to the left, but we held them to 4th and about 5. They run a fake to the left, and the running-back takes the ball to the right. He breaks a tackle, but is then stopped about 3 yards short by our linebacker. Then something unexpected happened. The referee takes his hat off, and lifts it above his head. This meant it was the end of the game. Our team had made an amazing 4th quarter comeback. Now we’re 4 and 2, or 4 wins and 2 losses. Their entire team was mad, and didn’t say a word. Our team usually isn’t that good, so you could hear them say, ” I can’t believe we lost.” This is my amazing and exciting life story.

If you were at the game, or played in it like me, please let me know if there is anything I’m missing.

footballkid5410

I listened to a podcast about bees. I would have watched pod-casts on football, but they didn’t seem very interesting, and then while looking up animal pod-casts I found a site called Animals Aloud. I went down the list and that’s how I found the podcast on the bees. I learned that bees, when put with different paintings of flowers were attracted to Van Gogh’s painting the most. They did this experiment by using bees who had never seen a flower before, and connecting a tube from their nest to a box with different paintings(well, poster copies of them). They would record every time a bee landed on a painting, where it landed, and how long it stayed there. Each experiment with each “painting” was 4 minutes long. Van Gogh’s painting had 146  approach flights, 99 of which were to flowers. His painting had 15 landings, and 13 were on flowers. I thought it was really interesting, especially considering that in a poll, the sane painting was the number 6 favorite painting in the world as rated by humans. The bad news is they had no place for me to comment on it, so I couldn’t tell them how I enjoyed it.