Last night was kind of weird as far as the football game was supposed to be. There were new faces and I could feel an electricity amongst the players. Javalina said he was excited because their true quarterback was finally eligible to play and although I thought it was him given the passes he was throwing, Javalina said the kid I thought was their starting quarterback was actually their 7th grade quarterback who had left last year for another school but is now back. This kid was throwing 40 yard passes without much of a set up, just flinging them out there with his arm. I remember in 7th grade, I walked amongst the team once and this little 7th grader was already taller than me and looked imposing. I loved seeing him in there and the other quarterback, it just gives the team a chance to win, finally.
But my blogs are usually about us and I have to mention Javalina in action while the team waited for the other team to not show up, the coach sent them over to an area where there was shade. The quarterbacks were wowing us with their practice passes and just as I start looking for our boy, I see the husky crowd over there going at it in the shade, all the linemen. Why am I not surprised when it turns out Javalina has all the other guys lined up to come and make contact with him. He is constantly measuring himself against the other guys, I don't think he can help himself. We asked him after wards why he was being a hero taking on everybody and he calmly said "I fell asleep in the meditation room and I wanted to shake myself awake, so I had some of my buddies come and hit me to try and tackle me." Apparently, before the games, they are given a light snack/meal and taken to the locker areas where the coaches turn down the lights and make them contemplate for awhile. He said they used to act a fool in the dark, but now a coach stays in there to make sure they stay calm.
So back to the big picture, this was their bye week, yet Seguin who is on the schedule for next week wanted to push up their game, so we were told that is who they were playing. Then they call that they aren't going to make it. Who knows if the game will be put back on the books for next week or if they will officially have their bye next week. It is now two weeks that they don't play, thanks to last week's threat of rain. I guess we will see. One more thing with our overly testosteroned boy, as we are sitting at Don Dario's enjoying a relatively rare and early middle of the week dinner, Wife was here to accompany us as a family, although Boy got stuck at work, Javalina can't sit still, he was all frustrated. He kept complaining that he wanted to take on whoever and just wanted to make contact. As a last thing, he moves everything out of the way and throws down the gauntlet, with a "Come on Dad, let's arm wrestle" there in the restaurant. It is a good thing that I used to lift because this boy is dying to become the strong man in the house. He gave me a good challenge, but I am still the alpha male in our house, for now.
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