Football 2014

 What a whirlwind October was with Football!  Playoffs started the first Saturday and we kept winning and winning!  Painting cars before we headed to our last away game in Weber County and it was fun to caravan!  Brandon even got to touch the ball in this game because we were winning by so much. The coaches started letting every kid touch the ball that could.  Too bad it was a bad pass and he ended up fumbling....but he still got to touch it! Yay!

We went all the way to the Mini-Bowl....the Super Bowl of Pee-Wee football and the team we were against was another Kaysville team. An all city bowl! We were not excited to play this team. Brandon has one of their 'stars' in his school class and he talked smack all week long. We just told Brandon to be nice and tell him we'll see on the field.  Well, we lost in the last 5 seconds as that kid ran for a touchdown!

This is super controversial because there was a flag and then after being by the opposing team's bench and hearing their coaches, the ref picked it up and waved it off.  That set a couple of our coaches off and a huge fight started. Although no punches were thrown at all, a league official raced his wheelchair onto the field and rammed our coach who was the most upset.  Then, cops were called. It was a mess.

Here's the thing....the boys played hard.  We are so proud of them!  We love the coach that got in the most trouble (banned for life by the league and 5 years by the city from coaching). We would trust him with Brandon again in a heartbeat.  I am upset that the boys were shown by both teams the wrong way to win and to lose.  But, kids are resilient and most of the boys had gotten over it by Monday.

Mike & Sydney and I left the next morning for Florida and the Allied Convention. I was worried about Brandon and this kid that is in his class, so I emailed his teacher. She was awesome and during her morning talk with them, wrote Champion on the board and had the kids define it. Then, she talked about being a good winner and a good loser. 

Since we know many of the moms on the other team, I did put out some 'congratulations' over Insta and text, but I wasn't really feeling happy about it :)

Anyway, the day Mike, Sydney and I got home from Florida (literally an hour and a half after we got home), we went to the football end of the year party.  I did the video and it was awesome! Mike even said so! And all the coaches and parents want a copy.  So, that's where my memories of this football season will be recorded.  Hope next year is even more fun! 

We are proud of you Brandon!