season over

Ted has been playing ball on Sundays for the Oak Forest 49ers since the last wk. of August., and today was the last game of the year. They were winless, the team they played today was undefeated. So they lost 28-0. Ted's team was smaller, slower and inexperienced than that team and all the other teams they played too. They were decent on defense, but poor on offense. They had a very difficult time achieving any consistency on offense. When there was good blocking the running backs would run to the wrong place (they were only 3rd graders as running backs). When they ran to the right place there was no blocking.

But there were some bright moments. Ted played nearly every snap of every game. He did a pretty good job today. They played the same team last week, and he was up against a kid bigger and tougher than him and he ended up hurting his legs and his back. He was so sore he missed school on Monday and missed Tuesday's practice. But today, he came out of the game unscathed.

Anyway, I am showing a picture of the back of his helmet. His awards are either "Pows" or "footballs". He gets a Pow for stopping the ball (he pulls off a flag rather than tackling the ball carrier). He got a football for achievement on offense like snapping the ball back to the QB flawlessly (Ted was the center), the team's only TD or blocking well on a given play.

Ted is reading this too. & he would like to point out that he would have gotten a lot more Pows but they ran out 2 games ago. So he would have received 6 or 7 more than what appears in this picture. Also, he would have had 2 more footballs on his helmet too.