Editor's note: Former UNLV wide receiver Casey Flair writes a weekly journal for the Las Vegas Review-Journal as a member of the Locomotives of the United Football League

On Saturday, we played the California Redwoods, the team we defeated in Las Vegas in the first game of the UFL, and the only team that stood between us and the bid to the championship game.

California, coached by Dennis Green, was a much improved football team since we last played.

The Redwoods came out firing on all cylinders offensively and calling all the right defenses. We struggled through the first half.
 

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