First Football Game of the Year

Today the League City 49ers played the Santa Fe Braves at LC. Cory plays for the junior team, and we won! Cory had a really good game. He plays wide receiver and middle linebacker. He caught a pass at the beginning of the game and ran it about 15 yards, getting tackled on the one yard line! So close! We scored on that drive, and scored again. The final score of our game was 14-6. Cory has played wide receiver for a couple years, and let's just say other teams know him... You can hear the coaches on the other sideline screaming 'watch 18!, cover 18!' ha ha. It's good to hear, but as a result he's generally covered so well he doesn't get the ball as much as he'd like. He was awesome today on defense and had one very incredible block on offense that helped our tight end get our second touchdown. One funny thing happened, Cory has like 4 pair of cleats. Each year we get him two pair, so he has two from this year and two from last year. Last years are a little small, but he can wear them. The cleats he likes the best were wet today because he'd worn them to practice in the rain the other night. So today when he left he got a really old pair of Nike cleats. George asked him why he was wearing those? He said "they're comfy". George was like whatever, they aren't in very good shape. So, first quarter, I hear Cory yelling to the sideline, "Dad! Dad!" and George doesn't hear him. So I see him hobble over to mid-field and show a teammate his shoe - it was coming apart! So then I yell for George and point this out to him. I told him I'd run home and get another pair of cleats. So I came home as fast as I could and got the wet cleats (stinky!) and a pair of under armour cleats that I think are a too small pair and took them back to the game. I guess after I'd left a kid who lives down the street who plays on the senior team had let Cory wear his cleats! So at half-time I got those cleats off Cory and tracked them down to their owner. It was a mess! I learned a lesson, though, to always keep an extra pair of cleats in the car!