Baby A attended a couple of games this week and was almost shocked at how different the sports can be. One of his coaches, I think the football offensive coordinator also coaches the girls' soccer team, and he is a young guy, who actually has a similar look to Mijo. It is a little weird and I don't know if I should be offended or feel flattered that other people want to claim my son, but the coach likes to tell other students that Mijo is his son. One way or another, our boy got himself on the field, which does not surprise us, we know how he is. He said he saw "Doc", the trainer, and asked her if he could come on the field to help. She said yes, and he jumped down there.
He said it was way too casual, the coach introduced him to all the girls during halftime, we then discussed "can you imagine the head football coach bringing some ditzy girl on the field at halftime and introducing her to all the boys...?" Definitely not, nobody is in a happy mood during a football game, we are all pumped up. Even during the boys' soccer game, he said the guys would get off the field, go to their bags, which were on the field, and they would be texting and on their phones. No way we could do that during a football game, the coach would make us run laps. The girls also had cupcakes on the sidelines to snack on. Mijo is like "we don't get treated with love like that, there's just too much going on during a game, we would throw up if we ate junk like that."
He was also surprised at the lack of leadership on the soccer field, especially with the girls. They all just kind of run around, there is no one leading them on the field. With football, we know who is running the show, same with the basketball game we went to, you can tell who the leaders are. Even the boys' soccer team had an equivalent guy to our quarterback, about as tall, but Hispanic, and you can tell he is the one they look up to. The girls all just kind of do their own thing, nobody stuck out as the one in charge.
Out as a civilian, he is seeing how different it is to be a football player, even a wrestler. Both those sports require the athlete to be strong, so being an athlete to him means spending time in the weight room, but to all these people in soccer, basketball, or even the volleyball his band friends were playing on Thursday, nobody else seems concerned about getting stronger. Compared to him, he notices everyone not in football being weak, nobody else seems concerned about lifting weights to get stronger.
On that note, he seemed excited that the wrestling coach told them he will be opening the weight room in the mornings for them. He had mentioned that the wrestlers in general, were not as strong as they could be, so he is trying to get a group of wrestlers to commit to lifting, including the girls, so they can get stronger for next season. This might mean I will be taking him to school early every day, but I guess if it helps, it'll be worth it.
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