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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"!!!!!!!!!

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