Frisbee friends or football foes?
- posted: 27 Nov. 2007
- scrollsports@byui.edu
Some roommates get to know each other at a completely different level than friends do. They sometimes see each other at their worst as well as their best. Roommates can be rivals or best friends.
But what happens when two roommates play on separate competitive teams? Does this placement turn pleasant roommates into mortal enemies?
Jared Arnell, a sophomore studying construction management, and Aaron Simmons, a sophomore studying exercise science, play football on opposing teams and say there is a little competition between them. “I kinda wanted to tackle him [during the game] because I thought it’d be funny, but I didn’t specifically look for him,” Simmons said.
Arnell joked about the one time they came into close proximity to each other during the game. He said he had the ball and saw that Simmons, 6 feet 5 inches and over 250 pounds, was charging towards him. Arnell, seeing his dilemma, darted as fast as he could away from the oncoming Simmons.
These roommates often joke about their games with one another. Arnell told Simmons to let his teammates know how good a football player he, Arnell, was before the rivalry game.
Kyra McCombs, a sophomore studying English, said that she has a playful competition going on with her roommate, Rachel Emmot, a sophomore studying health science.
The night they played their ultimate Frisbee game against each other, McCombs, who played for the Lady Vikings, joked with Emmot, who played for the Lady Hawks, about how she was going to kick her trash.
But the roommates supported each other on the team as well as having a healthy competition.
“When I scored a point, she was the first to give me a hug,” Emmot said.
Each of these roommates acknowledged that they went to some of the other roommates’ games to cheer them on. 
