military_irish
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...I watched one game of it yesterday and they have way more heart than ND, I kid I kid.
I just wanted to throw out a story to get the vibe to try and change at least for a moment. Too much negative talk, considering it was a win for ND yesterday.
I am currently out of town and near Houston. My fiance's dad ask if we would like to go watch her little brother play in his youth football game. I believe he is only 10. We arrived alittle late but WOW is all I can say. I understand why Texas has so many great players come out of the state. They had more fans than some of the high school games I played in while in Indiana. The parents and fans were completely into the game, screaming, stomping on the stands, they even had cheers made up to get the whole crowd involved.
To the players though, these kids were probably 8-10 or 7-10. I am not sure what the exact age groups consisted of. There offense was complex considering they were so young. They had shifts, motions, OL pulling, audibles. Things I would never have thought would be in a youth football game. The only they could not do was punt or kick off. I think the kick offs went 20 yards or so.
The QB for the team my fiances little brother was on was maybe only 3ft tall, not exaggerating either. But he threw a laser spiral about 20yards to a receiver and the kid ran for about a 45 yard TD. Then their RB, had moves that you see on a highlight reel. He was cutting back against the defense, doing spin moves, leaping over kids, and stiff arming kids. They didn't look like kids were playing, they looked like they actually knew what they were doing. Not "o they look so cute trying to play football", they actually knew how to.
They did have alot of intesity too, after every play if the offense did something good they would be hype jumping around and the crowd would go crazy, if the opposing defense made a hard hit the same thing happened with their fans. Pads were popping too, suprisingly to me.
After that game, we were waiting for her little brother because they had won 32-0. Her dad was telling me that there are four different age groups and they all play back to back.Their team was the Titans, so for the four age groups there were four different Titan teams. Anyways the next age up which I would assume was 11-13 or so they look like real athletes ready to compete on a big stage. They had all of their Under Armor gear on. They had mowhawks, dreads, face paint, whatever you could think of. They weren't small either. One of the kids was almost as tall as me, I am only 5'9 but still that is tall for a younger kid.
Anyways that is my story for today, just thought it was crazy how serious they take there football in Texas and at such a young age.
I just wanted to throw out a story to get the vibe to try and change at least for a moment. Too much negative talk, considering it was a win for ND yesterday.
I am currently out of town and near Houston. My fiance's dad ask if we would like to go watch her little brother play in his youth football game. I believe he is only 10. We arrived alittle late but WOW is all I can say. I understand why Texas has so many great players come out of the state. They had more fans than some of the high school games I played in while in Indiana. The parents and fans were completely into the game, screaming, stomping on the stands, they even had cheers made up to get the whole crowd involved.
To the players though, these kids were probably 8-10 or 7-10. I am not sure what the exact age groups consisted of. There offense was complex considering they were so young. They had shifts, motions, OL pulling, audibles. Things I would never have thought would be in a youth football game. The only they could not do was punt or kick off. I think the kick offs went 20 yards or so.
The QB for the team my fiances little brother was on was maybe only 3ft tall, not exaggerating either. But he threw a laser spiral about 20yards to a receiver and the kid ran for about a 45 yard TD. Then their RB, had moves that you see on a highlight reel. He was cutting back against the defense, doing spin moves, leaping over kids, and stiff arming kids. They didn't look like kids were playing, they looked like they actually knew what they were doing. Not "o they look so cute trying to play football", they actually knew how to.
They did have alot of intesity too, after every play if the offense did something good they would be hype jumping around and the crowd would go crazy, if the opposing defense made a hard hit the same thing happened with their fans. Pads were popping too, suprisingly to me.
After that game, we were waiting for her little brother because they had won 32-0. Her dad was telling me that there are four different age groups and they all play back to back.Their team was the Titans, so for the four age groups there were four different Titan teams. Anyways the next age up which I would assume was 11-13 or so they look like real athletes ready to compete on a big stage. They had all of their Under Armor gear on. They had mowhawks, dreads, face paint, whatever you could think of. They weren't small either. One of the kids was almost as tall as me, I am only 5'9 but still that is tall for a younger kid.
Anyways that is my story for today, just thought it was crazy how serious they take there football in Texas and at such a young age.
