Chad Englehart mostly remembers the reaction of everyone but Matt LaFleur and Sean McVay on that winter night in Northern Virginia.
This, after all, was a men’s flag football league, the kind that young sales managers, stock brokers or firefighters might play in late on weeknights in their free time. No Lombardi Trophies were won. And McVay came out this one night, eight years ago, in a pinch, with the team LaFleur helped organize back at the office short a guy.
Turns out, no one was ready for what was about to happen. The other team, rostered with a crew of weekend warriors, wasn’t, nor was Englehart, defensive quality control assistant Bobby Slowik, or the video staffers who were playing with LaFleur, once an all-conference college quarterback at Saginaw Valley State, and McVay, an ex–Miami of Ohio slot receiver.