My boys ROCK!

Saturday was a day of football. First up was one of my twin sons playing Pee Wee football. He plays on the grade 4,5,&6 team and they were playing against the big boys from the grade 7 & 8's. Kind of an inter-squad game.

Brady, my son, is a small guy - probably one of the smallest on the field. But, he's got heart, and he's fast. I honestly don't know how many tackles he had (he plays defense) but it seemed he was in on every play. I'll post pics after I get them uploaded. The offense didn't do so well and the team lost, but it was a close game - literally 3 broken plays that went for touch-downs against them and 3 dropped passes for touchdowns for them, and the little guys would've won! Was really fun watching him go at it. It's his first year, and he's still got lots to learn, but wow - he's FAST!

Next up, my oldest son, Khan. Khan's not the biggest kid on the team (though he is one of the top 3 or 4) - and not the fastest kid on the team (though he's one of the top 3 or 4) He is very strong, powerful, and fast - especially for a lineman! He plays both ways, and even plays on a couple of the special teams - he's rarely on the sidelines!

Poor Coaldale. The got clobbered by my boys team. Khan's official stats were 7 tackles and one sack - but I'm positive that when we watch the game tape tonight that we'll see it was more like 10 tackles. That doesn't tell the whole story. One of his team mates was in for 7 tackles, too - and most of them were him just running through the hole that Khan opened up for him.

I've got a picture of him on offense opening up a hole by blocking 3 guys at once. I've got a couple of other really cool pictures of him that I'll post here, too.

I'm not a football guy - I got cut from my high school team 'cause the coach was too scared I was too little and would get hurt. But I'm learning now, and it's way more fun learning by watching my kids play!

After the game coach asked me if I'd be interested in driving out and taping a game of the two main rivals that were playing about an hour away. So Khan and I did a road trip out to the game. Raymond vs. Claresholm. Raymond always has a good team - really strong program there. It's usually Raymond vs Cardston for the semi-finals (they are the two strongest teams in the league, but the league just can't stand to have to teams from the same area in the final, so they put them up against each other every year. The winner of this game always wins the league championship.)

We used to live in Raymond, so I know alot of the fans and players at the game. Was fun to chat with old friends I hadn't seen in awhile - though a few of them are more than just a little arrogant about their team. One in particular went on and on about how Cardston could never beat Raymond (never mind that last year the score was 14-7, and Cardston was playing with 5 starters, including their QB and my son, injured.) I hope my boys team kicks their butts this year!

We ended up leaving at half time - the score was 27-0, and we obviously weren't going to learn very much about Raymond watching this game.

More football to come!!