Belgian Griffins - Lille Vikings: 30-0

Soccer fans will see the above score as immense, but this isn't soccer; it's American Football.

Yesterday, the Belgian National American Football team played a practice match against the Lille Vikings, and won by four touchdowns and a field goal. Unfortunately they missed one of their conversions, hence 30 points rather than 31. They actually even scored a safety in the final seconds of the match, but the officials did not count it.

Still, that's a good score, so congratulations go out to all Griffins.

The game took place on the new field of the city of Andenne, in Namur—in fact, it was part of the official opening ceremony—and will be the home field of the Andenne Bears team that plays in the LFFAB, the french-languaged American Football league of Belgium. This field is now probably the best field of its type in all of Belgium, and I imagine we will be seeing it more often from now on.

Anyway, the main reason I was there was bifold. The first was called Joris Verhelst:

Number 85, my brother. The second was my D50. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to get a good action shot of my brother. He's a Tight End, and did get his share of the game; but when he did, either I was too far away, or someone else was in the picture, or—as happened all too often yesterday, since the lighting was rather dim—the picture was too blurry to make out anything interesting.

All in all, it was a nice day, and the ending was really great:

See you next time, Griffins!