Tonight was opening night for our local high school football team. There was a good turnout -- almost a capacity crowd -- but that will surely lessen as it gets colder and if they continue to play like they did tonight. We've got a pretty young team this year. Unless you're a private high school who can recruit players, it's hard to maintain a winning program year after year as your seniors graduate.
I was actually quite pleased in how the girls were dressed tonight (and not in the way that SOME of you might think I mean). Several of them did have on skirts and shorts that were too short but it was nothing like the skimpy, dare I say sleazy, stuff I've seen in the past, the clothes where I said there ain't NO WAY that your parents let you out of the house wearing that.
Here's a few pics that I took tonight:
First, a crowd shot. With the bigger crowd, the students took up more rows than they normally do so one of the end zones was pretty much blocked from our view all night long because the students never sit. And, from what I could tell, they don't watch the game either (I don't think we did much either when I was in high school.)
When I was in high school, I don't remember there being helicopters at every game (and, yes, PJ, helicopters WERE invented back then) but there is nowadays. The local news choppers fly from premiere game to premiere game in the metropolitan area shooting a small bit of footage to show on that night's news sports segment.
A shot from our seats looking down on the field (sorry that it's a little fuzzy -- with no flash, this was the best one I got actually):
A view of more of the stadium from the end zone. My sons' probable high school (since one never knows for sure what is going to happen in life) plays their varsity football games at the college DW and I graduated from so it is a nice facility for high school football. Interestingly, the high school football game crowds are much bigger than any of the college football game crowds when the college team plays there -- partially because the high school has about the same number of students that the college does. Tonight, we had to park almost exactly where DW and mine's first apartment was in the college's married student housing complex -- it is now just an empty grassy field because the apartment complex was hit by a tornado a little over three years ago and all 36 units were pretty much wiped out, at least structurally damaged enough that it made no sense to try to restore the buildings. (Note that DW and I had moved out 15 years before said tornado so we were not harmed by it in any way.)
Team meeting after the game -- another thing that never changes and another thing that I'm sure happens for more than 1,000 different high school teams every Friday night:
BONUS: Interestingly framed photo of DS6 -- I was holding the camera out in front of him without actually looking through the viewfinder or at the LCD screen and just snapped and checked (to see if the shot was good), snapped and checked (a bonus feature of digital cameras), to see if I could get anything good.
-- Rob
Hope you guys had fun!
That is the cutest picture of all!
I'll save you one!
Negative on the brownie. Who knows when I'll see you next! 
How about some cold water? I assume you're already sitting down. Close your eyes for a minute and turn out the lights if you can. 
BTW: I like both of those places. Just not what I call Mexican food. 
Take care of yourself Liz!
