First game of the season...

This is Joshua's picture from the first day of school this year.

Christopher had his first game of the school year today. It was the Green and Gold inner-squad scrimmage. In the south, Football is #2 on the list. #1 is God and #3 is Family.

This was a DAY of football, starting with the 65 pound division starting in the morning and ending with Varsity playing under the lights in the evening.

Christopher plays on the 8th grade team. In a show of solidarity, the coaching staff asked that the 8th graders show up to watch the 7th graders game.

The 7th graders probably got to play for 6 minutes before the game was called on account of lightning.

Did that end the day? Of course not... the teams retreated to the field house to waite it out. It thundered, it lightninged, it rained... and the show went on. Christopher's team had the opportunity to play - which was cool, although it was late. I think they were scheduled to play around 5pm, but they didn't hit the field until almost 7pm.

If this is any indicator, it's going to be a looooooooong year.

The big question is... how did Christopher do?

The team played a 20 minute game. He was in for maybe 4 or 5 plays which is better than last year. He played defensive end, and was in on 2 tackles. 1 was a solo tackle that everyone else joined in on after he made the stop.

Last year was his first year playing. This year, he's making a lot of improvements. He's getting off the ball faster too.

I'm not one of those over indulgant parents that will scream and yell and all that. This is something that he enjoys doing and something that he must do for himself.

Pictures to follow soon.