You're my boy, Blue!

As you may know, while at dinner yesterday, this guy came up to us and asked how old Alex is and if he plays football.  Alex was very excited at the idea of wearing a uniform and playing on a team.  He plays indoors at the gym, but never outside in the Texas heat.  I was concerned and I had questions.  I thought about signing Alex up before, but the sign up fee was $85, plus you have to buy all the equipment, which is a lot of money for my broke butt.  But this guy assured me that all I have to buy is practice pants, pads and a pair of cleats.  With my baby all hopeful and no huge fee, I said yes.  The boy is built like a lineman so I'm interested to see how he does.

Tonight was the first practice and it rained the entire time.  Wow.  It was like watching professional training camp on tv.  The coach had them working.  He's not psycho, he let them take water breaks, but he's serious.  He's not obnoxiously loud or rude, but he is authoratative.  He's probably around 60 and pretty much what you'd expect a football coach to look and sound like in Texas. 

Alex was worn out.  He asked if he could quit, but one of the moms said it's only like that the first few times to get them conditioned and decide who'll play what position.  I'm gonna make him stick it out.  I think it will toughen him up a bit because I know I baby him too much.  I also think I'm gonna walk around the park instead of watching practice because all I want to do is tell the coach to lighten up.  I know it's for his own good, but that's my baby and he's not used to that.  Maybe we'll both thin out a little.  Practice is M, T, R, F from 6:30-8:30 until school starts and then it ends at 8:00.  I seem to have signed off my Friday nights for the next few months.  Just when I was finally getting used to having them to myself and doing stuff.  Ah well...

It turns out that Michael Huff sponsored our team.  He cut a check for the boys' fees, uniforms, helmets and practice jerseys.  Pretty cool, huh?  He started training camp today so he couldn't come say hi to the kids, but he may at some point.  I understand he owns a condo in the area.  

I have to see if I can find a Play it Again Sports around here.  Yes, I'm cheap, but if you saw how fast this boy is growing, you wouldn't blame me.  Plus I need to have the stuff by Monday and payday isn't until Tuesday.  Games will be on Saturdays if anyone wants to come.  Oh.  Does anybody want to buy a $2 raffle ticket?