So our first year of tackle football was eventful. We were lucky enough to be put on a great team with great coaches! I volunteered at the beginning of the season to be the team manager (what was I thinking!?) and so I was super involved with the team. I found myself not only having fun, but truly loving all 26 boys we had on this team! Next year we will have to disband since some boys will be going up a division, and others will be staying put but I am so thankful for the opportunity that we all had to come together for one amazing season.
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| haha! The boys! |
We went undefeated this season. It was a "perfect season"! At the beginning it was easy, we seemed to be blowing my teams, in fact we didn't have a single team score on us until our 5th game. We were getting to the point, in some games, where we couldn't allow the boys to score anymore points for fear of "running up the score" which could cause trouble for our coach. Finally we met up with some competition in the Eastern Conference Championship, that game was closer than anyone was comfortable with, but we pulled out the win.
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| Junior PeeWee Conference Champions!! |
But this past weekend was when we finally met our match! We played a team from the west side that was also undefeated. Someone was going to know heartbreak for the first time, and I was not wanting to console 25 boys. We.had.to.win.
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| Spencer #40 (left) on the O Line. Ethan was home with the flu :( |
This game definitely came down to the wire. We were up 14-12 with 2 minutes left in the game. The other team had the ball and they were 1st & goal (at the 5 yard line!). They had been gaining a yard or two on us all day when they went up the middle, so this was very stressful. Somehow, we did only allow them ONE YARD on each down! We stopped them! However, we still had 52 seconds left and they had just turned over the ball on downs at the 1 yard line. We had to get the ball out of our end zone to prevent the safety.
Our O-Line created a nice little hole for our QB and he got right through... and then we took a knee.
WE WON!!!!
I am so incredibly proud of all these boys!
4 comments:
Unbelievable!! What an absolutely rush that must have been as a player and as a parent. How fun! :O)
Such an awesome game!! I know next to nothing about football, but it was still so much fun to watch the boys play and to see you and Dan so involved. I love you guys!
aah haa! Niakaela explained to me how you work the passcode below in order to leave a comment! I wasn't using the numbers!! Now I'm good. You don't have to change anything.
I'm really proud of the boys and their team! How great for them to be the state champions! Whoo Hoo!
Sounds sooo fun I can't wait until that is my boy. Or can't wait until we can watch American Football again. It sounds sad that I just put American in front of football. Means I have been away for too long.
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