Both kids did Flag Football this year. I didn't put Allison in it last year, thinking I would put her in a dance class instead but I just don't have it in me to pay for a dance class when I am such a sporty person....AND I would rather take them to the same place on the same day rather than different places, if you know what I mean.
Allison is a girly girl..which is good. I think she wanted to play this year because I played catch a lot with Matthew last year and she wanted to do that with me more.
She kind of enjoyed it a little but wasn't super aggressive.
Her team was the Bruins.
There was one other girl on her team....but that girl has four older brothers that are all really good so she knew what she was doing and scored touchdowns for their team.
Allison's team only won one game all year. Then they went to the Bowl Game (the last game of the season but plays other team with a similar record) The Bowl Game was against our friend, Colin's team, whom was the one team they beat during the "regular" season. Even though Allison's team lost, I was actually happy because that meant that the other team finally got a win, which is so nice for the kids.
Then there is Matthew. This is his second year playing...though not sure if you could really tell.
He did want to play...
About half-way through the season, I noticed that one of the two quarterbacks, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS through to ONE kid. ALWAYS.
I really enjoy watching football but I have never been able to tell what he play is going to be by the way the team lines up like other people but THIS quarterback I learned that he ALWAYS throws to this ONE kid.
The kid is usually pretty good at catching it but this game I think he may have caught one out of the twenty that was thrown to him.
There was one time Matthew caught the ball that this particular quarterback threw...but that is because in was in the area of this other kids. I think it was a bad throw that happened to be in the area of Matthew.
Anyways, after that game I confirmed with the coach that he didn't call for every pass to be sent to said kid. Of course it didn't but he said this kid is usually pretty good at practice and so the QB just looks for him. It also came up that Matthew chose to sit on the bench the whole time during practice. I was shocked and appalled. I couldn't believe he would do that.
When I asked Matthew why later, "Because I am not any good."
THAT IS WHAT PRACTICE IS FOR SON!!!
SOOOO, we had a discussion about wanting to play and what practice was for and I started coming to practice to watch him instead of watching walking the area for exercise.
He started wanting to play, wanting to do the drills and his coaches were completely surprised at his efforts and the complete 180 effort from him.
He did better, but not well enough to help the team much.
His team was the Bulldogs
(All the team names were from College football teams, Georgia Bulldogs, Bruins is from California Bruins)
Matthew's team went into the Bowl Game without winning a game.
They ended up winning that game, which, like Allison's team, the other team had only won one game in the regular season, which was against Matthew's team so it was a great day for everyone I think.
Matthew has been wanting to play catch outside more.
