As you know, dear reader, this is my last season of coaching youth football and the last season of being so deeply invested in the kids’ sports. Sadly, it is about to come to an abrupt finish. We play the toughest youth team in the league and possibly the state. We put 6 on them last time but they put 40 on us, so round two is set to be a rugged rematch. To make matters worse we are down our RB1 and our starting tackle. That means a lot of shifting things around and a lot of preparing for the end on all fronts. Win or lose there is only one more week after this. With my older kids both injured, I am practically done with High School football as well. I walk my kid across the field for Senior Night and that is that. It feels anticlimactic.
It feels like it should end better than this. Oh well.
Some Thoughts:
- Kyle Rittenhouse is probably going to go free, because the prosecution sold. They basically proved the defense case that this was self defense. How is it self defense to go to your friend’s stepfather’s house, obtain illegally purchased (and hidden) firearms and then go off claiming to be defending something you’re not even associated with only to wind up in a gun battle you should’ve never been in. Okay, well, any gang shooting moving forward is also self defense.