FINALLY

It was a looooong, sad season for the 80lb. football team. Can you believe it? We didn't win a SINGLE game. So on the freezing cold night of October 30, as the temperatures dipped into the 30s, the parents lined up on the sidelines to watch what we assumed would be one more defeat.

When you're talking peewee football, losing all season doesn't actually put you out of the "playoffs". Teams are assigned to tournaments, where four teams compete in two final rounds to determine place from 1st to 4th. We had lost the Sunday before (of course), so we were playing the loser of the other game to determine who would get third place and who would get fourth.

Can you imagine our shock when our team scored? And then scored again? And then stopped the other team from scoring? Parents who had been huddled on the bleachers against the cold started following the team up and down the sidelines, screaming encouragement with all our might.

The elation that came when our sons FINALLY WON their very first game all season was indescribable. The kids were in shock, the parents were in shock. And just like that, we won third place, and got bright shiny trophies.Guess Nicky just needed some Green Bay weather to play in!