It seems just when we got good at being fans, it's over. We've been a lot more involved this season, and I've been showing up with my flags and banners marking the football field as our turf, which is part of the fun. Funny how some dopey parents just assume the football field provides those flags and put them up for the teams. We finally know a lot of the parents and it was feeling pretty good to show up and feel like we are a community, but I guess all good things come to an end.
The game, on the other hand, was fierce, and not in a good way. LBJ manhandled our boys and left their mark. It is easy to see why they are ranked so high in the state. Usually, our QB has been able to run around defenders and finding holes to run, but that was not the case this week. It did not help that he was already slowed down with other little nagging injuries, he wasn't really able to throw the week before, his mom said his shoulder was hurting. He was hit pretty hard, his knee buckled, and he was taken out. Another of our receivers was hit helmet to helmet and he was taken to the hospital for concussion evaluation. That LBJ kid was ejected, the play was totally uncalled for. We also lost our other top receiver, who was also fighting nagging injuries. We were left with the QBs younger brother, who had been stellar at defensive end, to work the QB position, but he was unable to run or pass, so it was a totally rough night for us. We have a back-up QB, but as Mijo said, he is skinnier and smaller than our QB, they would have broken him, if he had tried.
Just looking at the front defensive line, those were big scary boys. Mijo's friend, who we give a ride to, most days, was saying they were talking mad shit, like "who let the little boy on the field?" as they looked at the guard that has been playing in Mijo's place, he is a good two inches shorter than Mijo, probably stands 5ft5in, and not very strong. Mijo's friend is 6ft2 and he says he was looking up at the guys and they were just faster and stronger. there was very little to do but take the beating.
It sucked all around, and I will even add, the referees were penalizing them all over the field, but it did not seem to matter much, there must have been 6-7 unsportsmanlike conducts against the other team, in the end, they still dominated. As down as our boys were, they have to remember they had a solid season, and for the first time in a long time, they are in the playoffs. It had been maybe 20 years or something like that, we had been told, plus they won 6 games this season, those are good things to feel good about, I am proud of our boys, they have come a long way.
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