GEFNFL 47th Season Week 1

GEFNFL 47th Season Game Review

9-13-2024 Week 1

Well Ladies and Gentlemen, week 1 of the 47th season of the GEFNFL is in the books!!

The weather was sunny warm and perfect for a game of football!! Teams started out with 5v5 as players continued to show up to the field, eventually getting to a 7v7 game once everyone was here. Due to technical difficulties with the camera, we did not get some of the early game and later game plays on video, but we did get most of the game.

Blue Team started off strong with a kickoff return for a touchdown by Zach Kraemer to start off the season with a bang! Red team then drives back down the field and score their first touchdown of the game. With a pass from Tyler Jones to Jose Chavez.

Blue Team starts their next drive just to get picked off by Paul Van Schaick. Setting Red Team up in good position to throw another touchdown pass from Paul Van Schaick to Kyle Weideman.

Blue Team then makes a valiant effort to drive back down the field, just to get picked off again by Paul Van Schaick in the endzone off of a tipped touchdown pass! Red Team then drives down the field and scores another touchdown with a deep pass from Kyle Weideman to Jose Chavez.

Blue team tries ones again to drive back down the field. Attempting to add some motion plays to their play calls to trick Red Teams defense, which managed to work until snapper Alex Schott miss timed the handoff on one play. Causing a red team to get a sack due to the ball hitting the ground.

Red Team manages to get the turnover on downs, driving back down the field to score another touchdown with a pass from Chris Montes De Oca to Tom Rodgers. Blue Team makes another good effort to drive back down the field again. Only to get stopped on another 4th downplay.

Red team drives down the field again, scoring another touchdown from Tom Rodgers to Kyle Weideman. Blue team then tries once again to get a drive going, only to get picked off by Omar Orozco for a pick 6 touchdown!! Things are not looking good for Blue Team. It would seem like some players on blue may have skipped out on some preseason snaps this year.

Blue team drives back down the field again, getting stopped once again in the endzone. Red Team then makes another good drive down the field scoring another touchdown with a pass from Omar Orozco to Chris Montes De Oca.

Blue team then is finally able to put together a touchdown drive and score with a redzone touchdown pass from Ben Hornak to Zach Kraemer. Red team doesn't waste anytime driving back down the field again though and scoring another touchdown with a rushing touchdown by Tyler Jones.

Blue team starts to drive down the field just to get picked off again by Tom Rodgers. Setting Red Team up at about midfield, which is then picked off by Rookie Nathen Hirt on Blue team for a pick 6 touchdown!!

Red team drives down again though to score another touchdown with a touchdown pass from Chris Montes De Oca to Tyler Jones. There were a few more plays that got missed due to camera difficulties.

Final Score

Red - 10 TDs, 3 INTs, 2 Sacks,

Blue - 5 TDs, 2 INTs, 1 Kickoff Return

Even though it wasn't the best game for players on blue team. Overall, it was still a good start to another GEFNFL season!!