One Down...Two To Go...

Cameron's football season ended on Saturday night. (He's Number 87) It was the premier middle school football event of the year - The Spartan Bowl! (something like the 35th annual) Cameron's school has won this prestigious contest 34 out of 35 times (or so I've been told...) so the outcome was pretty well predestined. In fact, the final score was 52-14...(Note the on-field celebration)
There are just two middle schools in our town and they are divided based on which side of the main street you happen to live on. The strange thing for us is that we have to drive right past the other middle school to get to ours!
What really perplexes me is how the athletic prowess of the teams can be so lopsided. Earlier in the year, one of the best football exports this town ever created (they are REALLY serious about their sports...) had been watching Cameron play baseball and asked if he was going to try out for quarterback because of the strength of his arm. Then he asked which school Cameron attended and when I told him he said, "that figures - all the good athletes go there"!
The worst part for the kids in all this is that they ALL go to the same high school. So they instill this ultra-competitive 'us and them' through middle school, then expect them to come together as a unified student body as freshman!
Oh - the wacky world of school sports...

Our football season is not over yet! Jackson and Caeden are now in the playoffs.

Caeden's team has LOST EVERY GAME and yet they are in the playoffs. John says they just lulled the other teams into thinking they were really bad and they are going to come through and win it all in the end. I say, they are just really bad!

Jackson's team lost their first game on Saturday so they will be a force to be reckoned with in their playoffs.

However, none of this really matters today. The only question that needs to be addressed...WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INDIANS?! I guess the answer is "Go Rockies!"