Football Night Again

Most of what we did yesterday was just passing the time to get to the real drama of the day - the football game. After last week with the disappointing performance of the team, we were all hoping that the "real" team would show up. This was a home game and it was Seniors Night, which means all the Seniors were introduced with their parents before the game started. Here is a picture of the pre-game ceremony:

We arrived at the stadium just before this ceremony, and just as the Sophomore game was concluding. The Sophomores ran all over the other team - East Aurora - and I believe the final score was something like 43 - 6. It was a sign that the varsity would probably have an easy time of it also.

The first quarter was almost a repeat of last week as our team turned the ball over 3 times and had several penalties that killed drives. In spite of their poor play in the first quarter, they led 14 - 0. The "real" team showed up at the start of the second quarter. There was no stopping them. Austin had 3 touchdowns in the game with scoring runs of 6, 20 and 15 yards. He also had several long gainers and the team came together and played near flawless football. Although I took many action shots of the game - including Austin's touchdown runs - I had a setting that was wrong on my camera and all the action shots were blurred. What a bummer! I will see if Mark was able to get some clear shots so  I can show them later. Nonetheless, the team was leading 51 - 0 when the Coach started playing the 2nd and 3rd team players at the start of the 4th quarter - so we left, since Austin's day was over. This is a picture of the scoreboard just before we left:

It was a thrill to watch the team play the way they are capable of playing, but even a greater thrill to watch Austin play so well. He really does have the talent to go far in this sport.

There will be one more game that we can watch next week in the regular season before the playoffs start 2 weeks from now. The team has already clinched a spot in the playoffs, so we will hope that the team continues to play the way they did last night.

There is nothing scheduled today, but we need to take care of a couple things before we head out on the 25th - such as having the tires rotated on the Jeep and getting our flu shots at the local Walgreen's Drug. Other than that, we are looking forward to the next game tomorrow, when the twins take on a team that is located near Chicago. Later...