Spirit Animals

An email circulated around my team regarding "spirit animals".  Without going into top secret details, I came to the conclusion that my derby spirit animal is the Vulpes vulpes, aka the red fox.  It's not about the colour, I'm not a red head, but there are a few reasons for it.

First of all, they are darn cute:

Also, apparently their eyesight is quite poor and near-sighted, just like mine.  And I like they they are considered "sly" and smart, that suits me just fine, too.  Fast, predatory, opportunistic, hunter- these are all things I want to bring to my derby.  The truth is, I only ever saw a fox once, and it kind of looked like this:

 

Which is how I feel at the end of a bout or scrimmage.  

But honestly, even though I know I'm getting to be a better player, stronger blocker, and much more experienced on the track, I still mostly feel like this:

Also cute, also blind.  Lacking the fierce.