One more yard, if only one more yard. This was a weird feeling close game. We were late because Wife was stuck at work until 4:00pm and then she got stuck in some BS construction going on somewhere out in the middle of nowhere on I-35 down south of San Antonio. If that didn't suck, we then had to go through the shitty slow drive through downtown Austin which I was hoping since it was 7:00pm it would be a tad normal at least. No, we crawled through there, but once we got to where the highway splits, we picked up speed again. We missed most of the first quarter, but we got there to a 0-0 game, so it seemed ok.
As we sat down, Northeast (used to be Reagan) scored the first touchdown. It was near the middle of the second quarter. Crockett got the ball, lost it in three downs, punted and Northeast drove in another score. It seemed futile and that things were getting out of hand, with the score at 14-0. They came back in the 3rd quarter, scoring on a long drive with a short run and 2 point conversion. The score looked better at 14-8, and then towards the start of the 4th quarter Crockett scored again and the score was then 14-14, missing their 2 point conversion, but making the first one. The next series sucked because Northeast got the ball after a kickoff and scored in one play, just a quick QB scamper around the edge and he was gone.
At this point, there were about 9 minutes left, Northeast was up 20-14, Crockett got the ball and lost it on downs. Northeast had it for a set of downs and also lost it with a weird punt that went sideways off the shoe and probably lost them 8-9 yards. Crockett had around 6 minutes and 40 yards to go. They ran a great series of plays, mixing in short passes and runs to get inside the 11. They managed to get a fresh set of downs when they got to around the 1 yard line. They just needed that one yard and the score would at least be tied, and to boot, they had also run the clock down to less than one minute. They ran it for no gain, had an illegal procedure which moved them back 5 yards, gained the 5 yards back on a 2nd down run, then back at the 1 yard line they went on back to back passes on 3rd and 4th down that both got blocked and fell way off the mark. It was so close and yet so spirit breaking to see them loose this one.
They played a fairly clean game, hardly any penalties were called. There was a small brawl when the QB was pushed running out of bounds and he ended up taking out a girl trainer and rolling out onto the track. Baby A had rash burns around his neck, he said guys on the other team tried to choke him and pull him by the hair. He was hugely upset after the game and took the loss very personally. We tried making him feel better by showing some perspective. Wife's coworker's kid, playing in La Pryor at the time our son was hurting over the loss, was being driven to San Antonio to have his broken arm tended to. This sobered our son within a minute or two, he got out of his funk and started talking to us, asking questions about the kid.
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