They are two very different boys, for sure. Boy could not get enough new clothes, and he was always ready to go to the mall just to look around. The younger brother has to be drug to a store or taken under false pretenses, saying we are going somewhere else and then surprising him by turning into a clothes store. I guess we have started his school clothes shopping, in a weird way. I have now quietly ordered him at least five new hoodies, two before school ended with a wrestling motif, then another with a football motif and his jersey number on the back. I then bought him one he saw with the Dr Pepper logo and another from that I-cryo place we went to last week. I then got him a couple of 12-packs of socks, and now have even ordered him some underwear and tennis shoes on Amazon. The little weirdo is going to go into his third year of wearing the exact same style of Nike shoe, I just keep ordering the same Nike TR4 trainer shoe, in black. I actually think his freshman year he got the same pair but in red, so it might be all 4 years of the same tennis shoe.
At some point we will probably have to go to the mall to try on some new pants and maybe a couple of dress shirts or at least some polo shirts, although he has said he just needs a new bag of white t-shirts, since he wears a hoodie every day. The coach has already said they are expected to wear a dress shirt and tie for game days, so he will need to go buy a couple dress shirts and tailor some pants to his height for Fridays.
Yesterday we went to Dick's Sporting Goods, and he surprisingly got two pairs of football cleats. He got a pair of black high-top cleats like he normally does but then he shocked me saying he liked this one pair that was white and not a high top, which means his ankles won't be as protected but as he said, he will be freer to move faster. I felt uneasy about these shoes, but he was excited at the idea of wearing something so different to the norm. Another weird one was a pair of lineman gloves, which are supposed to be extra tacky to hold onto a runner if he can manage to catch them, since he will be playing defense this year.
I am excited for the season to get underway; they have been working so hard all summer, I hope it pays off in some kind of way. Contact practice begins tomorrow, I am making some of his boys a brisket for tonight, it was one of his friend's birthday this weekend, so they will be getting together here, probably celebrating with food and maybe a jump in the pool.
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