Fall Football 20-Fourteen

Well, back to school also means back to football!  It has been such an exciting start to the year.  First of all, Matthew's junior high had four football teams and two of them were A teams, and he had been on one of the A teams both years.  When he moved to 9th grade, there was only one A team and one B team.  As competitive as his grade is athletically, he spent the entire summer working his tail off to improve his chances of making the one A team, and wouldn't you know?  He became the starting middle linebacker on A team!  His first game happened to be at Lake Travis in Austin the first week of school.  Lake Travis is an extremely wealthy school district that beat us in the state championship several years ago.  The entire drive to Austin, I was nearly sick to my stomach.  On the first drive of the game, the Lake Travis quarterback threw a ball in the middle of the field and Matthew jumped up and intercepted it!  After that point, I have calmed down a bit and have thoroughly enjoyed watching Matthew play the game he loves more than anything.  We've seen him sack the quarterback and make countless tackles.  Go Matthew!

Mary Beth amusing herself during games.

Matthew was the team captain last game.

Then there is Thomas!  He is the starting center for his A team.  He also plays tons of time as defense end as well!  He is playing so well with clean snaps on offense and several tackles on defense.  We are so proud!  He also is playing his final season for Pee Wee.  As time consuming as it is, his coach called us this summer and pleaded for Thomas to play his last season as the team needed experience and bulk on the line. Coach Rojo has been T's coach since he was in 4th grade and we could never tell him no.  So, between T's Monday night school game, Matthew's Thursday night school game, our varsity game that we are season ticket holders for on Fridays, T's Pee Wee games and Baylor and Alabama games on Saturday, you could say that we are a bit overloaded with our favorite sport!  And we couldn't love it more!