Hi, i have a story idea for you.

I am a student/player at Arkansas Tech University, and I play for a team named En Fuego. We obviously got our name from Dan Patrick’s catch phrase, “dare i say, En Fuego”

We are returning for our fourth consecutive year and an attempt at a fourth straight undefeated regular season. Until last year we had a rough time in tournament play. We lost one game a year and every year it was deep in the school tournament. Last year we made the championship game of the All-U tournament at ATU. We lost, 7-6 to the Rollers on a botched two point conversion, in a torrential downpour!

More interesting, however, is what happened after that.

We decided to give the state tournament another shot (we lost in the semi’s in ‘07) and we not only beat the team that eliminated the Rollers (a team from the University of Arkansas called the Nomadic Islanders) but we made the single elimination tournament undefeated.

Fast forward to the finals…

We had the great luck to draw the defending state champions in the championship game. Outkast, from the University of Central Arkansas was a group of very experienced and talented flag football players.

We managed to take the lead on a trick play with less than two minutes to play, and had to hold them to win the game. They marched down the field to around the 10 yard line where with seven seconds left the Outkast QB was unable to stop the clock to get another play off and we won by “that much!”

Sorry to make the explanation so long, but after state we went to Southeast Missouri State Regional and won it too! We were 21-1 as of this time and were ranked #2 in the nation in the flagmag rankings.

Nationals didn’t go quite like we wanted. Our best two players were unable to travel to Tampa with us and our chemistry suffered. We went 3 and out at Nationals, but it was a great year nevertheless. We finished the season 21-4 and ranked #5 in the country.

This year’s team will have only four returners from last year, but we have assembled an all-star team of sorts from the best players from other teams.

We would love to have you document our season as we attempt to win back to back state tournaments (ATU hosts it this year, home turf!!!) as well as another regional tournament!

Thanks for your consideration…

August 28th, 2009 at 1:15 pm by Mark Freeman

Feature Story Idea:

We have a women’s flag football team at Vanderbilt University that has been in continuous existence for over ten years. The teams have been a dominant force in Vandy’s football program for years including a couple years when they played in the Men’s C league to find better competition. The team has competed at the state, regional and national level. They have advanced as far as semi-finals at the national tournament.

There have been coached by the same individual over all those years. AS an undergraduate he playing varsity football at Vanderbilt. He went on to graduate school here and this has been going on so long he is now a faculty member!

This is a great group of women who have found a tremendous social and athletic outlet through flag football.

September 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 am by Lynn Smith

TKE team at St. Johns University has won the championship last two years. I am a senior with an overall record of over 60 wins and less than 5 losses. We recently lost our 9th year player Ramy and now plan to dominate again and have our second undefeated season in a row. Went to Cornell last year and got third place because our starting quarterback got hurt in the first game of the tournament

September 8th, 2009 at 1:24 pm by Richie B

Feature Story Idea:

My name is Mike McCoy, I and the rest of my team are an all freshmen squad with one goal in mind. To be the first freshmen, undefeated football team in La Salle’s history. My personal stoy is of how I barely made it to this college and the motivations I have brought into playing in this league. I come from a very low income family from the suburbs of Philadelphia. My father passed away when I was 17 years old, and I was kicked out of my mother’s house, by the state, due to her alcoholic abuse problems. And was forced to live with my grandparents when i was 13. When all those troubles kept coming down at me from when I was younger till now, the only bright spot in my life was football, it always got me up everyday to keep on fighting and live my life to the fullest. the game is so pure and exciting to me, i do not know what i would do without it. My family’s annual income however iwas about 16,000 dollars per year if that, and college football anywhere seemed out of the picture because i wasn’t the best athlete on the field. When I was looking at colleges it seemed almost impossible for me to be able to afford college at all, until my grandparents told me to take a visit to La Salle.

As soon as I got to the campus I immediately felt like I was at home and loved the atmosphere, but I knew I may not have been eligible to go here because of my family’s money problems. My advisor told me there would be no problems about money, I would just have to pay for room and board, and that put La Salle University above my other school choices. Another concern was if i was going to be able to play football in college, and as of two years ago La Salle has not had a varsity football team. Which nearly took away all my hopes of playing college football. Then my advisor told me about the Intramural Flag-Football league we have here at the school, and when I heard of that news I was more than ready to sign up for the fall semester at La Salle University.

As soon as I got on campus I asked around to all the people I knew interested into the Flag-Football league, and I assembled a team within about a week after careful training to make the team. I am incredibly psyched for this upcoming season in a chance to win the contest for my school, then to the Philadelphia tournament and beyond. Whether my story is chosen or not i thank every involved for creating this league, because without it i don’t know if I would be where I am at today getting a great education at a great school.

September 11th, 2009 at 8:43 pm by Mike McCoy

This is Very Athletic Guys from St. John’s University, and we are going to beat TKE so u might wanna record that! lol

September 21st, 2009 at 4:11 pm by Steven Bitler

i play for the GOON SQUAD at IU we are the highest scoring flag football team in the country our last two games were 34-0 and 25-8 ( because the mercy rule stopped it) and we are all 1st generation college students, we think we can win the national championship. we have a player on our team with 16 sacks in four games

October 12th, 2009 at 1:36 pm by dominique black

Here’s a story for the ages.

The Little Giants have been together for 8 years now! Four years in highschool where we were able to have a 21-3 regular seasons with 3 championships. Some say we were a dynasty, well when most of us all decided to end up at Indiana University we could put that to the test. Our first year we went of course undefeated in the regular season and lost in the playoffs 3rd round (our college curse) to the Rugby Team whom ended up winning it all.

Next season was different. With motivation to win we picked up some bigger, stronger, faster guys. Again we went undefeated in the regular season letting up only 2 touchdowns (1 being from a pick-6). This year was our year. All pumped about getting one of the top seeds in the playoffs we again lost 3rd round to AKAK, whom correct me if I am wrong won it all.

2008 season had to be our season. As upperclassmen we were the ones who would win it! Again we started off strong with some new additions of speed and agility. Our defense was unbelievable and our offense was flawless. Again 3-0 during the regular season with half of the points coming from turnover possessions. This championship was ours! We had a bye come playoff time and walked over our second round, but the 3rd round cursed us again. We lost in double overtime to “Why So Serious?” (2008 Champs). Unbelievable to loose 3rd round again.

That leaves us with this year. 2009, 3-0 during the regular season and the 3rd round playoffs are this Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9pm. Of course who do we play…. “Why So Serious?”. This is our year of redemption! Little Giants WILL win! We have forgot what it means to be a champion, but that will be soon a memory of the past.

We have lost to 3 teams who have either won it all or come in second. I guarentee we will not loose another!

LITTLE GIANTS (2004, 2005, 2006 HS Champs, 2009 IU Champs!)

October 26th, 2009 at 6:49 pm by Little Giant