I don't think the boys had enough time to get over the loss last week, the team on the field seemed defeated before we even made it into the stadium. Because traffic is shit here in town, it took us almost an hour to get to the stadium that was twelve miles away. It is ridiculous to travel into the city and unfortunately, this stadium is somehow basically, downtown, on 15th and Lamar Blvd. Anyways, we left the house at 6:40, this is as quick as Wife can get here from working in San Antonio, on a Friday afternoon. I thought we were leaving with enough time, but I guess not. When we got there, we then find the parking lot next to the stadium is full, and a sign saying to go park in the parking structure, which sounded bad, but it is technically on the same block, we just had to go find the entrance around the other side by getting on the road and driving around it. By the time we walked down from the third floor, McCallum had already scored. We walked our ways to our side of the stadium and by that time, they were on their way to scoring again.
Because the kid that joined the team from up north who became the center three games ago, decided to miss the game, Baby A was tossed back into the role. Maybe the kid's family had a real reason to go out of town, but some of the other kids were also saying he was homesick and wanted to go visit family. Fine, but you have made a commitment to the team and the season isn't over. Wait two more weeks and then do whatever, we haven't visited our families since the season started, there isn't time for it when football takes over all your extra free time. I'm not trying to say football is more important than family, but you have made a commitment to a group of people and the season is finite, it lasts about twelve weeks, you have to sacrifice your time, that is what commitment means.
Anyway, my son does a fair job at center, he did have 1-2 bad snaps. One ended up in the running backs hands and was labeled a trick play by the announcer, which I was a little impressed that my son could aim sideways, but I asked him if they practiced that a lot and he said that one got away from him, it was luck that the running back was there. The other bad snap ended up in the quarterbacks feet and he just fell on it. This would upset me more if we hadn't seen the lackluster effort of the team as a whole. The defense could not stop the running game, every play seemed to go for at least 9 yards or more. I don't think they had a third down situation until the second half. I can't say anything better for the offense as they could not get more than a first down or two and then had to punt, it was very disheartening to see our boys play like this. The coach put so much weight into last week's game and them having to win those specific games and make it to the playoffs that I guess once they lost, there is no point to the season is the best guess I can muster for the effort I saw. The final score was 56-0.
Next week's game is not going to be any better, I am guessing, and the weather is looking from the forecasts like it's going to be a cold one, the start of the game will be in the 50's and dropping. This game was in the upper 60's and I was miserable in a sweater. A jacket would have really helped.
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