Friday was Senior night and there was so much activity, it came and went without a minute to sit and be sad, reflecting on this being Mijo's last season playing football. Seeing him injured most of the season has certainly put a new flavor in my spirit, before the season started, they had been talking about this game and that they were definitely going to shed a tear or two, realizing it was all coming to an end soon, but most importantly, what if they ended the season with another horrible record, what would that mean for them to put in all the work and maybe win another 2-3 games? At that point, we never expected Mijo to lose his season like he did, one never knows how fragile they are, one bad play and it was over.
The reality is that this is a new team, the QB finally emerged from his cocoon, and he is really something special. The last three games, he has just been running through defenses, making it look way too easy. He has a respectable group of receivers who he relies on, and they make that scoreboard go to work. The Cougars battled Travis this week, and it is a big rivalry, Travis had gotten the win the last two years, stopping us from potentially making the playoffs last year, on the last play of the game.
This season, we had none of that. Crockett was up 28-0 by the end of the 1st quarter and then kept on adding points, making it 42-0 by halftime. The second half of these blowout games goes by even faster. I went down to help put away the cave the boys run through, and by the time we had rolled it up into the bag, it is huge and heavy, at least a 4-man job, the Cougars had managed yet another score.
I really think the loss to McCallum was a necessary evil they had to go through, they had a 28-7 lead at one point, and then squandered it, letting them back into the game. They have kept the throttle on the last three games, scoring and scoring more until the other team breaks, leaving no chance to let them back in. I believe they learned that lesson there, as bad as it tasted at the moment, they won't do that again.
Travis finally did manage a drive for a score, but it happened almost at the end of the third quarter and took about 8 minutes, getting lucky to keep moving the ball with penalties. The Coogs returned the favor with one more score to make the end 56-6. The booster club had ordered these cute little paper crowns and at the end of the game we got to go down on the field and crown our boys, it was a lot of fun watching and celebrating with them.
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