Jon in Pasadena

I'm glad you can still spend get together from time to time. They grow up too fast!

If you have the personnel for it, it's brutal, but effective. When we looked at the film of our opponent's offense their last few games we calculated they ran like 92% of the time. Either power, counter, or toss/reverse over and over and over and over....

Just for laughs: Last week we had a comeback win for the ages in our second game. The opponent had legit NFL-sized players (265lb fullback, 310lb OG, 315lb OT, etc.) They run that nasty-ass old double wing offense. Boring but effective. They're used to just steamrolling smaller teams like us. We were down by 21 pts three different times in the 1st half, but then our D slammed the door, and we came back and outscored them 36-8 in the 2nd half. Craziest HS game I've ever watched. My kid had 18 tackles (2 TFL) and after two games he's ranked 2nd in league, 16th in California, and 79th nationally. I know that can't last, but we are enjoying the heck out of this season as long as we can. What a great sport! 🙂

Then he must have mastered the "Transmogrify" incantation.

My offense runs entirely through the Tight End. "Skinny post" is our favorite. Heavy set... not so much.

Isabella all purpose yards: N/S = 20 E/W = Half Marathon

Love how Abbey runs.

I kind of like the color. Anyone know if they come in Men's ?

Before, during, and after!

I had totally forgotten about that welding term, thanks!

Count yourself blessed. I always imagined it derived from the (very) old days when dropping a dime meant making a long distance phone call. So if the QB makes a long distance hookup with the WR, he dropped a dime. But I have a very vivid imagination, so it could have had a totally different origin,.

Horrifically, my company's management. I die a little bit every time I hear it.

Walk the talk.

It's been a minute since I last heard that one.

Pretty sure she gizzled his spizzle.

Just toss some pickle juice on that sucker and he'll be fine.

Another vote for Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) A couple others I liked: Astro Boy Prince Planet

Numbers are definitely down overall in California since 2015 when there were over 100,000 kids playing 11-man tackle HS football. Still, according to CIF there were > 84,000 last year in 1025 High Schools across the state. Our school is one of the top performing academic High Schools state-wide, nor really known for athletics per se (although we do have a few names out there in various sports). The last couple years we've been rebuilding the football program here, and have put together an excellent coaching staff, IMHO. The parents as a group are very supportive, donating time, $$ and even the use of their homes for after-parties, etc. We have a partnership with Children's Hospital of LA to ensure the safest possible environment, training staff, equipment, etc. We have > 100 kids in the program this year, and the JV squad is also looking strong (undefeated last year, 1-0 so far this year, looking good for the future.)

Great advice, but it's 95% likely he won't ever have the frame to play high-level College ball (honestly even D III would take a miracle) but his grades are solid, so he should have a lot of good options.

Some may recall my LAMP post around this time last summer, about my son's first Football experiences. Recap: He joined his High School's varsity team as a Junior, having never played football before (but watched a lot, with me!) and went from zero to playing significant snaps by the second half of the season. They had a pretty good season last year, and made the playoffs for the first time in many years. Flash forward to this season, and he's now starting Linebacker and the centerpiece of our DC's scheme. We had our first game this week, and crushed 'em by 6 touchdowns. Shut them out the last 3 quarters. My little berserker led the team in tackles (10) and TFL (2), sacked the QB on a nice blitz, made the "Play of the 1st half" by blowing up a screen pass that would have gone for a huge gain, and generally wreaked havoc and destruction. It was crazy fun!

Aw, thought ya had sumpin' juicy. Guess nah.

Better in what way? Do you have some inside dirt on Hailee ?

We must purify our essence !! and... First thing the rookies were taught at camp: Do NOT get between Aaron Kromer and his beach chairs!

Guess I must have missed the Kalil Pimpleton era.

This post explains so much. 😈