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Who Doesn't Love Football in the Mud Time may have tampered with my memory, but the way I remember things is that when I was in third or fourth grade I asked my mom if I could play football and she was adamantly against it. Feared I would be crippled or blinded or victim to some other horrible physical tragedy. So I stuck with soccer and learned you could hit people almost as hard as in football, and you didn�t have any of those pads getting in the way. Anyway, because of my experiences as a child and my love of the game of football, I knew that if Ian (or Emma or Zoe for that matter) ever expressed an interest in playing organized football I would be 100% behind them.  So I was excited this past summer when Ian came to Heather and me to announce his plans on playing for his school�s football team. They have a 5th/6th grade team and a 7th/8th grade team which play against teams from other nearby Catholic grade schools.We signed him up, geared him up, and I�ve had a wonderful time watching him play out one of my unrealized childhood dreams. (The others childhood dreams being turning our house completely upside down so that the ceilings became the floors and my mom installing a fully functioning McDonald�s kitchen in our house from which she would prepare all meals in perfect McDonald�s fashion.) If this first football season wasn't enough to make me envious of Ian�s football career, last night � the last practice of the season before Saturday�s final game of the season � sealed the deal. It had been raining all day. Their practice fields were soaked and muddy. It was the last practice of the season. This is how he arrived home:  I don�t know if the kid knows how good he�s got it. posted by Brendan | 1:20 PM | permanent link |
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