Injury report

It's not even 9:30 AM yet and we have sustained an injury. No, it didn't occur during our cold pre-dawn run this morning. Nor did it happen after the run when we walked the dog.

It happened doing something we have never (ever!) done before.

We injured our thumb...wait for it...playing the Wii.

For Christmas, Santa brought the Wii for us the kids. Nearly two months later, we finally played it today. The Playmaker got Backyard Football 2010 this week. An hour ago, he taught us how to play. Then we picked our seven player team (Tom Brady, Chris Johnson, Brian Urlacher, Mario Williams, AJ Hawk, The Playmaker himself -- we made him, and one more player whose name we don't remember).

The Playmaker gets 45 minutes a day during vacation to play the Wii. All of those minutes this week have gone into playing Backyard Football. And yet, we somehow had the lead, 21-20, with 2 seconds left on the clock. We went with our base D (four DBs playing cover two) that had worked so well for most of the game. We were pretty sure he was going to go to Calvin Johnson in the end zone, so we rotated our safety (who was, ironically, The Playmaker) to his side.

And what did the real life Playmaker do?!?

He hit Adrian Peterson on a crossing pattern underneath coverage and went 21 yards into the end zone for the winning score on the last play of the game.

The Playmaker 27
Us 21

And now we have a sore thumb from using the controller or nunchuck or whatever-the-hell-you-call-it-thing.

Ugh.