We Are All Business

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It was a late game, 7:30PM kick-off 50 degrees and light drizzle. The Sheboygan Badgers vs. Sheboygan Eagles. This has turned into a grudge match between the two teams. Always meeting at the end of the year for the championship, the regular season match-ups turn into hard hitting, low scoring one up-man-ships.

Runs up the middle for 3-yards and a cloud of dust as the boys pile on each other. It was a chess game; who can make the least amount of mistakes and which team can capitalize on those mistakes.

First, second and third downs were getting quicker and quicker resulting in punts for both sides. Half-time came with both teams working for their first score.

The second half was more of the same, defensive stands for loses or short gains into the 4th quarter. No mistakes by either team, stay calm and fierce.

We made the first mistake on a punt return with 4 minutes to go in the game. The punt by the Eagles was high and true and I saw it coming before it happened. Our return man came running up and the ball slipped through his hands. With the ball on the ground there was a pile of boys with the Eagles coming out with it on our 10 yard line...a score was immanent.

That is when it happened, we teach never give up on a play, follow it and always run to the ball because you never know when the ball is coming out. The Eagles ran to the right and there it went, ball on the ground and an Eagle player jumped on it first but it squirted out behind him and it was nothing but red on covering it up. We now have 95 yards and 2 minutes to go in the game and I have all three time outs, it is all tied up 0-0.

We go into our 2-minute drill, yes my lighting team has a two minute drill and they ran it to perfection. No huddle run to the right for 10 yards (1:45 left), No huddle to the left for 8 yards (1:30 left), No huddle run to the left again for 10 yards (1:15 left), and again no huddle to the right for a gain of 2 and I call time out (two left). My QB comes over to me as I am walking out on the field, with a smile he says "43 scissors coach", I smiled and said "run it" and walked off the field.

My running back faked left with a huge jab step and started up the line. We reversed it with a second hand off and the running back hit the hole and was gone for 60 yards and a touchdown with :41 seconds left in the game. That was how it ended 6-0 Sheboygan Badgers. We are now 3-1 with three games left, the chase for the championship in on!

Classic Battle

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The warning came out around 4PM, fog alert. Heavy fog rolling into Sheboygan. Game kick-off was scheduled at 6:00PM.....Place: Sheboygan South High School Field....Teams: Sheboygan Badgers Vs. Sheboygan Steelers in what is to become an immediate classic, one of the best games played, a back and forth defensive battle with low scoring, lots of punts and the team that can stick to their game plan the longest wins the game.

The team captains assemble at mid-field shaking hands in respect of each other but that was the last friendly jester before kick-off. We are to kick off to start the game and are subjected to the Steelers open style offense, marching the length of the field in 6 plays to score. As they line up to go for the two point conversion our kids buckle down and slam the Running Back in the back field....badgers 0 Steelers 6.

The battle is now on, back and forth the teams went with fumbles on both sides due to the heavy fog making the ball slippery. We punted, they punted until with 2 minutes left in the half we break a long one to the 10 yard line...the clock ticking, time outs all used up we get a play off, my quarterback keeps to the left, he hits the corner on his way to the end zone...at the 5...4...3...2...1......to be pushed out of bounds at the 1/2 yard line as the clock shows 0:00 on the board to go into half time....it was demoralizing, the kids heads were down, they didn't need to be.

The coaches get the kids together, go through pep talks, what changes needed to be made for the second half but time was getting short as I stood behind the coaches waiting to say my peace. I was proud of them, they played hard, score or not but their heads were down. I had a minute and a half left and all I could hear was my Dad in the back of my head and I had to smile. So this is what I said "Boys, where would you rather be? It is Thursday night football, we are playing on the high school field, fog is heavy and we are are in a smash mouth game. Eyes on me and give me a smile because it doesn't get much better....break it down" and I walk away knowing I had them.

The second half we came out and smashed mouths, hard hits, grunts everywhere for both teams when we hit first. QB breaks left again, 30, 20, 10, and at the 5 he gets tripped up. I grabbed my Running Back and looked at him and called a 43 Blast, "score me a touchdown"...."yes coach". He did just that. We lined up for the conversion, ran it straight down the middle and pushed the pile across the line. Badgers 8 Steelers 6.

That was how it ended in what is maybe the best played game between two teams that I have been involved in.

As I waited for my turn to address the kids at the end of the game I thought that I needed to thank my kids. Little did they know what they gave me that night, they were proud of themselves but I thought it was important that they know how grateful I was.

"I am proud of you and after you break down for the badger cry I want to shake every one of your hands before you leave...now break it down".

Son Of A......It's Like a Train Wreck

In honor of high school sports and all the fun they try to put on at half-time I give you this.

New Design

Hey look what I did. I felt the old design was a little dark and not really a whole lot of fun. So now with the kids gone I have time to do some playing around. So as you can see there needs to be some small changes to it and I will update the design by adding this and that. I am playing around with it a bit but I like the Python-esk fun it brings. So in honor of my fun Monty Python design I will leave you with this....

Stupid Is as Stupid Does

Some of you may have seen this before but this is great.

Background: On a drug bust cop decides that he is going to keep some of the weed that has been confiscated.

Brilliant Idea:
COP: "Hunny lets make some brownies because I have heard that is really cool....ummm...how much weed should we put in the batter?"

WIFE: : "I am not sure, I thought you said you've done this before"

COP: "yeah, actually I just heard of it. But I think you just throw it all in there"

Consequently this is what happens when stupid follows stupid....

Free Bowl of Soup?

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It was cool, as cool as a football morning should be. Cool enough that the dew was heavy and steam came cleanly off the long grass just waiting to be kicked up in a swirl of activity. The Sheboygan Badgers came out with anticipation and energy, but as every football season starts with unbound optimism so does doubt that we as coaches properly prepared them. We think we did, we hope we did, we did everything we wanted to do in preparation.....we hope it was enough.

At kickoff they were fast and steady, taking hand-offs and cutting right and left. The offensive line got off the ball and were knocking people back and we were fighting hard. Our offense is designed to be ball control, setting you up to think that we are going to do one thing and then to your surprise we go opposite.

As a head coach I deal with the offense and my quarterbacks are good enough to call their own snap count in the huddle. They will call when to go. This could be on the first, second, or third go. They did so with a head in the game and eye on the down.

We scored right away, working our way with passing (yes passing) and running mis-direction. Our A-Team and B-Team's both played their hearts out and we came away with a 16-6 victory.

I told the kids before the game that "today boys is a day of firsts, who is going to make the first hit, who is going to make the first block, who is going to make the 'decleater'.....boys who is going to get the first win"....and in unison they yelled "BADGERS"!!!!!!!!!

Can You Tie Them in a Knot, Can You Tie Them in a Bow?

The anticipation was overflowing because Leroy was getting neutered on Wednesday. We couldn't wait, it should calm him down, it should get him to stop peeing on every other tree on our walks and overall it should just calm him down.....come to think of it Dominic and Tommy have been acting up lately.....