Our son got a notification from his coach on Monday that he qualified for a letterman jacket. I think this is cool and a great motivator for the time and energy he put into the game. As far as I understand and what I have read, letterman jackets are given for participating in varsity level activities and our son did manage to play on the varsity team of his school this past year. It was a tumultuous season, to say the least. First off, he didn't do much preparation all summer because we had been saying he wasn't going to go to school in person, due to Covid-19. Then the coach put out the message and of course he got all excited and I guess we fell into it because we like seeing Mijo happy. It was a weird about face on all our parts, even my folks had been lecturing us to not let him play, it was too dangerous, only to have him go out, along with his younger nephew in 7th grade and even my niece go out and support as a cheerleader. For all my parent's fears and consultation, they were out there watching the games, as best they could. It might just be a football thing here in Texas, I don't know, but it is an awesome feeling to see your kid run out on that field and fight for school honor, and a jacket.
I said tumultuous because not only did he not know that he was going to play and didn't do much training in the off season, but he was put on the varsity squad but barely got into any practices. He was very much a back-up role in the beginning of the season and kept wondering if he would get kicked off the team and sent back to the JV squad where most of his classmates were. He took some harsh criticism from the coaches who did not hesitate to bust his ass to play harder, but that him a better player and we saw that from the first game where he got on the field for two plays to the end of the season where he was starting on both sides of the line, playing offense and defense culminating in him being chosen for 2nd Team all-district honors at the end of the season. To think he got recognized here in central Texas, on a 5A team where a lot of big schools play, I think is a high honor.
I just wish the little knucklehead would listen better. He said the coach told him he could go pick up his jacket today, so naturally I got all excited at the idea of going to pick up some gold colored jacket with a cool ass Cougar showing on the upper right breast and maybe even his name, figuring the coaches would order him a 2XL jacket, but no. We went to campus and they had the order form on which to order said jacket. There are so many nuances to make that it almost seems too confusing to do it at home. He can choose about 6 different fonts for his name to be written on the back, being Hispanic, for some reason, he already chose the classic Old English lettering, and it goes from there, such as what other sports to add, he can upgrade to leather sleeves for an additional $75 and so forth. I guess we will sit with Wife this weekend and figure it all out. Either way, congratulations to my husky boy, he sure works hard for his team.
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