Friday Night Rivalry-Week 4

We had a barn burner this past Friday. The two teams were neighborhood rivals and it came down to the very end.

After having our pregame our crew hit the field. The field had some conditions that needed to be looked at so we had to speak with the Athletic Director. The AD looked into fixing the problems the best that he could so kudos to him.

Next thing you know the game is underway.

There were some turnovers and a little bit more penalties in this game compared to our games earlier in the season. The sidelines were behaved for the most part.

The visiting team had a kid that every time he touched the ball he was about headed for the endzone. Whether it was by rush, reception, or return. The first time he received a kickoff he about took it to the house. After the second time the ball was kicked off to him I overhear the head coach say to the kicker, "Don't kick it to him anymore. Kick it away from him." This was all in the first half. After a score in the second half the home team lines up to kickoff and the kicker kicks it to this kid again and he returns it up past the fifty yard line and almost took it to the house again. I turned around, looked at the coach and said "I thought you told him not to kick it to him." Coach shakes his head and replies, "I did tell him not to." We share a chuckle. Of course coach and the kicker had a heart to heart conversation when he arrived to the sideline.

Now it's in the fourth quarter and the home team is up by a touchdown. Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick. About a minute to go and the visitors have the ball inside the opponent's 20 yard line. 4th down and about 8. Time out. We being the third team meet in the middle of the field real quick and our White hat says, "Guys this is possibly the game. Be sharp. This is it." We all concur and move back into position.
Clean snap and the quarterback tries to roll somewhat to his right and is sacked immediately. Ball game.

Fun game to be a part of. Great sportsmanship and players just playing hard.

Our crew heads for the locker room and talk quickly about the game and then head over to our Umpire's house to eat. Man did his wife make a mean lasagna. We haven't ate that good after any game in all our years. Awesome! While eating we're channel flipping between the NCAA South Florida vs Kansas game and Friday night high school football highlights. We didn't realize it but the news was at our game. Next thing you know I see myself twice. Not that it's important to be on the news, but see it isn't a thankless job. Lol! It's all good. Nothing like Friday night being on the field amongst all the action.

Had to get up super early the next day for college football. The following week we have to high school games so I'm off a week from college ball. One on Friday and one on Saturday. Saturday's match-up is a doozy!