Put Me In Coach!

   I've written about the difficulties of being a fan
before. But this past Saturday presented a very
unique challenge!
    At one time or another I had three different
family members out there on the football field.
    Each wore a different uniform!
    My grandson is on his High School football team.
    We really didn't expect to see him in the game
because he's a Freshman. But there he was!
     It was just for a few plays. But we were just as
thrilled as "Rudy's" family must have been when
he took the field for Notre Dame!
     Then there's my great niece!
     She goes to the school that was playing my
grandson's High school.
     Of course she's not on the football team!
     She is a member of the Marching Band.
     I noticed a lot of similarities between the band
and the football squads!
     First they both wear uniforms!
     They both have a coach directing their play
from the sidelines.
      They both go forward and backwards on the
field. Of course in the case of the football team
they're not suppose to go backwards!
       It's OK for the band because it has to go in all
directions to create it's various formations!
       My grandson, like all of the football players,
 wants to carry the football.
       My great niece carries a piccolo in the marching
band!
       We,  of course, cheered for both of them!
       But wait! There's more!!!!!!
       My great niece's Dad hit the field too!
       He didn't have a formal uniform. Just a visor
and shirt with the school's colors.
       He choose that option rather than going shirtless
and painting his skin. We believe it was a good
choice!
       He doesn't carry the ball.
       And, as far as I know, he can't play the piccolo!
       He usually drives the tractor that hauls the band's
heavier equipment out at half time.
       But, since they weren't allowed to take the tractor
onto the field's artificial turf, he and a student
pulled the equipment out like a team of mules pulling
the old "Borax" wagon across Death Valley! (Older
readers will undoubtedly have to explain that passage
to the younger set!)
       Any way.....he did such a good job...we cheered
for him too!
        Hope you're out there rooting for somebody....and
that all your NEWS is good!