9/6/19 Gonzalez Grossly Grounded Crockett?

    The outcome was horrible, no point in dwelling on that, final score Gonzalez wins 56-0.  If I can point out some highlights though, I will say I enjoyed the drive up there to Gonzalez, yet another small town in the middle of nowhere that Wife tells me she used to visit back in her days of working at ACC.  Even though the houses looked old and maybe some needed a little TLC, I really liked this little gem of a city.  Driving in, we noticed it had all the usual McDonald's and restaurants you would want in a big city, but in a small town package.  The crowd was full of beautiful women and girls who were all decked out in bright cheerful school colors and pride.  Black, white, and Hispanic people were all seated in a mixture which should be more normal for us in the big city, but honestly it doesn't happen enough.  Like Wife said, she noticed a goofy white boy dressed in the common cowboy look, normal for a small town, but then he was throwing up gangster hand gestures, like he was cool (he wasn't).
    There seemed to be a lot of hometown pride which is hard to see in the big city.  The stadium was not sold out, but it was the biggest outcome I've seen in a long time for a football game that wasn't the "big varsity" boys playing.  The team even had JV cheerleaders, not that they are required, but it makes a football game seem more normal, when you have a batch of young girls cheering for their guys.
    As an added bonus, at least for Javalina, his grandparents were able to come and watch him play.  My mom and dad arrived around 2:00pm and were able to nap and shake the burden of the highway only to get back in their truck two hours later, which they volunteered, while Wife drove us.  We left at 4:30pm and we got there just as the teams were done stretching and going to their respective sides, shoot we sat down as they did the opening kickoff.  I would still have liked for the temperature to have been some 15-20 degrees cooler at kickoff, we did manage to find good seating in the shade, thanks to the big announcer's box way up at the top.  The heat refuses to go away, it was 103 degrees at kickoff.
    Javalina continues to improve, even as more kids join the team, he has been able to keep playing both sides of the ball.  He even had a few solo tackles, which was cool to have the announcer mention his name out loud.  He had a vicious tackle where he wrapped a guy and then he spun on the ground to take him down, he needs to make that a normal thing.  I was worried the caches might put him in as center, the normal starter had like 5 grossly overthrown hikes to the QB that he had to just chase and just land on them.  This resulted in like three safeties which is no Bueno for anybody.  I don't think they had a reception for any yards.  Maybe they had one first down, if that.  Javalina did mention the QB from the first scrimmage is coming back, not sure where he has been, but I do know we need one that can run this team.