Craft Fair Weekend Part 2

I'm standing at the craft fair register watching the clock thinking "it's 8, the boys are warming up, it's 9:30 they just weighted in, it's 10:00 kick off I wonder how they're doing . . . then game over, it's kick off for the next one. I hope they're doing ok. I wonder how the coaches are acting." I didn't have a cell phone so I had no idea how it was going until I finally reached my husband at 2 and he said "It went terrible, kids are all coming off the field crying, both teams lost, some of our players were kicked off the team."

Isaiah's team (the one with coaching drama - you can read more in prior posts) played a team they could have beaten. But it was a fiasco - personal fouls, kid being kicked out, running backs were being smacked before the hand off was even made, issues between parents and coaches etc. Final score 22-7. Isaiah played linebacker and center the whole game and did get some tackles. The Association is will be at practice tomorrow to talk to parents and coaches. . . we'll see what happens then.

Mathia's team was intimidated before they even weighted in - when they saw the cornrows, goatees, and grills. This is an all black south central team. Danny's "brutha theory" is the more brutha a team has the better the team. Coach had announced to our kids this team was the best in the state (this team is blowing out teams who blew out other teams) All the kids were coming off the field crying. Mathias had a crying spell and coach yelled at him to "stuck it up and get control of himself". He did play most of the game and did get several touchdown saving tackles. He played both sides of the ball. They were up 21 - 0 and we'd only had 1 offensive play. They'd kick off and we wouldn't even get the ball - they'd get it. Final score 34-0. Pop Warner has a rule, if you run up the score the coach needs to write a letter of apology etc so at a certain point you can only run up the middle and your bench should be playing otherwise I'm sure the score would have been worse. "You were out worked, out hit, and out hustled. You had your pride ripped from you today." This was coach's bellowing final speech - did I mention he's intense??? Welcome to football - 7 to 9 years olds mighty mite division.