"Winning!"

Today DD had her first high school pep rally and cheered at her first game in the high school stadium. The freshman boys played their old rival from the town I work in 20 minutes away. I say "old" rival, because our high school's team was moved to 3-A and the other town is still 4-A, so the rivalry of decades is now the first football game of the season when it used to be the Grand Finale. When I moved here in '95, I attended that game and thought it was the funniest game I had ever been to. I got there 30 minutes early and had to sit in the very top corner of the stadium. The yelling was so loud it was deafening. At half time, as the opposing team filed out to their designated room, they were screaming at us and flipping us off, and our town was screaming at them and throwing stuff. It was WILD. Of course, their guys had killed a goat (our mascot) and left it on the football field, and our guys had killed a few deer (their mascot) and hung them on the road to their town. As I say, good old small town Texas rivalry.

So tonight, our freshman boys, who DD has grown up with her entire life, had thought they were going to get creamed. Their town's football program is legendary and has gone far in the playoffs every year, while our town, not at all. As a matter of fact, they pretty much ran our last head coach off since last year's season was 2-8...

Anyway.

We started out and all parents kind of winced at each other. But from the first play, we saw that this team had heart. First the other team lead, and then we did. We couldn't believe it! We were actually beating these guys! Then their team scored a touchdown and field goal and lead by 10. Then we scored but were still behind. All of a sudden, the other team fumbled and our quarterback ran it in - yea!!! We were ahead 24-22!! Then we fumbled and they got the ball and had enough time to score. Then they threw the ball and we intercepted with only a few seconds left!! Winning!!

THAT'S what I'm talking about!!