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Player Diaries Week 5 Gilles Colon is the Gaiters most dangerous weapon. On the field the athletic superstar has gotten the attention of defensive coordinators everywhere, constantly receiving double teams and still managing to beat up on opposing teams. Colon, from Annandale, Virginia, came to Bishop's in 1999 never having played a down of football. Today he is a star on and off the field, and this season has allowed Gaiter fans to get that much closer to the team, by providing a season diary during the 2003 campaign. Here is the fifth installment of what should be an interesting series: After our game with Laval last week I didn’t write the weekly player’s diary. The funny thing is that when you win there is so much to say and when you lose you also have a lot to say. But after a loss like that, you don’t really want to say anything. Well, the season is more than half-way through, and I feel as if it is just getting started. No doubt that we have had perhaps one of the toughest first-half schedules in the country, but now we are left with one of the easier ones. With only three games remaining in the regular season we can do something that hasn’t been done at Bishops in a long time (well, at least since I have been here). We can finish the season at .500, with 4 wins and 4 losses. It is almost depressing thinking that in less than a month only playoffs remain. As football players, we live for the eight or so weeks, from September to early November. We train hard for eight or nine months, play football for two months, take one month off for rest…… and then start the training all over again. So in the last two weeks, when people asked me after the game “why are you in such a bad mood” - well it is because we “live football”. And it is the same thing after a win, you feel like you are king of the world. I want to have that positive feeling again when it is all said and done. We can’t pull off the perfect record, or even a winning record right now, but we can finish 4 and 4 (which last time I checked isn’t a losing record). There is nothing that I like more than being out on the field and lining up against a defender, or getting ready to catch a punt and making people miss. But recently even this has become a task and we tend to take these things for granted. It shouldn’t be that way. We can’t take for granted the time that we have here as student athletes. This is the message that I came away with this weekend after talking to old gaiter football players and alum. They told us that football won’t last forever. And one day it will all be over and we will be in the work force moving on with life. No one will know who the person was who scored the touchdowns at homecoming in 2003 or even that made all-conference and All-Canadian. So bust your butt now and enjoy every minute of it, they told me. And that is what I am going to do for the rest of the season. Gilles Colon #03 Go Gaiters = Beat Sherbrooke
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