I was just looking through all my pictures this morning and found some rather interesting ones from our Pain Train teams. During our sophmore year in college, many of my friends and I played various intermural sports at Western. We played all sorts of different sports (some that we did much better than others) and had a lot of fun doing it. We played football mostly every year and although we mostly struggled, we did get a win one of the years. Our sport was whiffleball. For some reason, we just clicked and ended up making it all the way to the championship game. What all intermural sports participants vie for at Western is the IM Champion tee-shirt and that was on the line when we played in the championship game. We had beat the team we played that night, but they had a new guy on their team and were able to come away with the victory. We made a good run at it, but feel short. It was fun regardless. The sport we never should have tried was basketball. We had a few guys that had played basketball before (myself included), but we just didn't have what many of the other teams had - guys that could dunk. Our last game, we played another 0-3 team and fell in a close one and that pretty much closed the chapter on basketball for us.
Pain Train wasn't really about wins and losses though. One of the best things about Pain Train was how much we and our fans got into it. Just getting ready for the games, all wearing the high orange socks and joking around before the games was the best. We always had the most fans at football games, even though we usually were getting dominated. It was kind of like a high school feel - many of the girls would make little cards and put them on our dorm doors. One of our members Colin even started a Pain Train appearel website with a logo that he created. We would all come in together with out orange jerseys and although we probably didn't strike fear in anyone, we certainly made a few heads turn. I remember sitting in class once and a kid was talking about IM Football and said, "those kids with the orange jerseys looked like they were having fun." Those games were some of the best times that we had. We looked forward to those nights of Pain Train games, even though most times we knew the outcome would be a loss.
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We played basketball one year, Ive got some pictures. They made Drew take his Jones Sode cap off his neck even though he had it covered with a turtle neck.... Those Bastards.... Keep writin, im enjoying the stories, its bringin back good memories.
ahh, remember when colin half-tackled the guy underneath the rim during out last game? haha, those were some great times.
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