Filed under: Band, Cheerleading, Family, Football, Football Injuries, High School, Kids, Life, Marching Band, Photos, Sports, Success | Tags: Band Competition, Football Injuries, LVHS, Photos, ULYFL
Zachary had a couple of great games this past week. Wednesday night the ULYFL Giants played against the ULYFL Bandits. The Giants won 20-6. It was a fantastic game and gave the boys a sense of “we CAN do this” which was needed after their first game loss to the LLFBL Rams. Saturday night the Giants played against the ULYFL Titans and won again, 8-0. The score would have been 20-0, but we had two touchdowns called back for some pretty stupid penalties. One was recalled for blocking from behind, a silly mistake. The second was recalled for holding, an even sillier mistake but it happens. The coaches were not too pleased about the penalties, but I think the boys were actually feeling worse about them.
Zachary on the move!
(Zachary is on the left of the photo with the long blue sleeves.)
Zachary was moved to a different position in this game and had quite a few important tackles. He was hurt during one of them in the second quarter. (more…)
Filed under: Football, Football Injuries, Friends, Sports, Teams | Tags: Youth Football
Well today we had our first games of the football season for the kids. We started our day off by arriving at the football field at 11:00 AM. My daughter, Bethany, was cheering for the Trojans who won their game. I think the score was 18-0, following a morning of Upper Loudoun teams winning games over Lower Loudoun teams. Bethany’s cheer squad looked really good for the little amount of practice they have actually had. Their half-time routine looked fantastic and it was obvious they had worked hard on it.
We had a quick break around 1:00 so we could change clothes and get Gatorade for my son Zachary’s game. Zach’s game started a bit late because at this point games were running about 30 minutes behind schedule. Typical by the time you get to the older boys’ games.
The Giants got off to a rough start in the first quarter against the Lower Loudoun Rams (even their 2nd string was HUGE) and the score was 7-0. During the second quarter, the Giants got on the board with a fantastic pass. “Goliath” (nickname for smallest kid on the team) had a beautiful catch and run into the end zone. The score was now 7-6. (more…)
Filed under: Opinions, Sports, Summer Olympics 2008 | Tags: Beijing, Olympics
I am probably opening up a can or two of worms, but there are some things I want to say about this topic. Please read the entire post, then if you want to comment or bitch about what I said, go for it. I got very little sleep throughout the games, and although I was sad to see them end, I was also slightly happy.
First, I think that the opening ceremony was incredible. I don’t think that we will ever see an Olympic ceremony equivalent to that in many years to come. Since China spent approximately $40 Billion, I can’t see how another country could even try to compete. That is one hellacious amount of change, but the entire Olympics was one heck of a show. (more…)
