We KNOW What 5A Means!

Last evening, through some awful coincidences: teams desiring to drop to 1A, teams being investigated for playing with 19 and 20 year olds, the North Pointe Falcons played against the Lake Havasu Knights for their homecoming game. Now, someone should have first informed those in charge that it is most desirable to play a team that might be a bit easier to beat for your homecoming game. I arrived early-working the snack shack again- and saw 50 of the biggest guys I had ever seen! As I walked by the police officer watching them all warm up, I commented on my son being one of the bigger players for the Falcons, and these guys making him look less that large, and he advised that I should tell my son to get a little hurt early in the game to get taken out, so he would not get hurt BIG during the game! Not a calming opinion! This team from Lake Havasu City had 50 players...we have 40. They have 20 players in the 200 pound range...we have 3. They have two that weigh 295, and one over 300!...we had none. It really does matter when you have a campus of thousands to pick your team from, vs. the 300 that Nathan's school has. There were no Freshman on their team...we have Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Now, I will give great credit to the Falcons...they just never gave up! They worked the ball down the field, the offensive line did their job, the defensive line worked their tails off. The score of 40-something to 0 didn't reflect all that effort.
Surprisingly, Nathan was upbeat! He really did some great blocking and stayed in the game the whole time with these guys that were way bigger than him! Jesse got time to make many good passes, and they even got to work with our backup quarterback, towards the end.
It was just too bad that we couldn't have just forgot this week...made it a bye week. We paid for charter busses to bring these kids all the way here and then take them back. They were nice kids...and it was great there were only a couple of injuries on either side, and none severe. Homecoming could have been later...and then they would not have been so...disappointed!