Big Game Coach
As I said yesterday I am the assistant coach for a youth flag football team. That was until last night when I found out for the second time this season I will take the reins because our head coach will be out of town on business. Now the last time this happened we were playing the best team in the league. We only lost 14-7 and managed to score our first touchdown of the season on the last play of the game. That was also one of the only two times this season that our defense has made a stop. Grant it the end of the half helped, but the way my defense plays I’ll take it.
The team we’re playing tomorrow is the only one in the league that we match up with favorably. We should have beat them the last time we played but their best player showed up at halftime and scored two TDs in the second half. The other two teams in the league just beat us up. Even though we gave the Chargers a game last week, they have a 10 year old and an 8 year old on their team. This is supposed to be a 5-7 league. What a crooked town. And the other team, the Tigers, are stacked because the former Parks and Rec Director’s grandson plays for them so pretty much every great athlete in the league is on that team. And people wonder what’s wrong with youth sports in America.
Here’s the game plan: we’re going to run the hell out of the reverse play I put in last week that we scored two TDs on and we’re going to use my new “spread defense.” I have a really good feeling about this game.
They’re building a BW3 in this two-horse town. It’s not supposed to open until the spring, but it gives me a glimmering of hope. After I hire some hard drinking interns in Dallas at the Winter Meetings I have a feeling that I will be spending a lot of time at this new establishment.
New Philadelphia High School plays Dover High tonight for the 101st time. New Philadelphia is my alma mater. They’re riding into this game at 8-1, Dover’s 7-2 but undefeated in the league. So this game has a share of the league title on the line, a possible home playoff game, and pride. NP has a one game lead in the all-time series. Last year we won the game for the first time since 1994, my freshman year of high school. This tells you all you need to know about the stability of one program and the lack-there-of of the other. NP leads 46-45-9. This is the second longest high school football rivalry in Ohio behind Massillon-McKinley.
This week was always my favorite in high school. But when I was in high school we only had one winning season (frosh year, 7-3) so the game was just about having a good time and trying to pick fights with Dover kids. NP and Dover are right next to each other so needless to say vandalism and craziness is the flavor for the week. This doesn’t happen in the Mass-McK rivalry because those towns are about twenty minutes apart. In the area this week you have to be 18 to purchase eggs. And the best part of my senior year was that the game was on Halloween so it was twice as nuts. My buddies and I skipped our own bon fire that year so that we could hit Dover players with eggs as they went to their cars after their own bonfire. It was great. I’ve always said that my years in college were far beyond those I spent in high school, but I’d relive that week over and over if I could.
I drove a car in high school that we affectionately called the Bronze Bomb. It in fact was a bronze 1983 four door Buick LeSabre. A tank in Lehman’s terms. It didn’t look like a student’s car. So while my car was parked on the street between Hondas and Cavaliers near NPHS it went untouched while others were covered in egg. And its hefty 307 V8 made getting away from Doverites all the easier. God what a great car. My mom sold it for $400 when I was a junior in college. Considering we bought it for $850 and it had about 150,000 miles on it when it was all said and done I think you could call it a great buy. Very plush seats. I took many a nap in that car while I was skipping class.
That’s enough reminiscing, I’m out.
The team we’re playing tomorrow is the only one in the league that we match up with favorably. We should have beat them the last time we played but their best player showed up at halftime and scored two TDs in the second half. The other two teams in the league just beat us up. Even though we gave the Chargers a game last week, they have a 10 year old and an 8 year old on their team. This is supposed to be a 5-7 league. What a crooked town. And the other team, the Tigers, are stacked because the former Parks and Rec Director’s grandson plays for them so pretty much every great athlete in the league is on that team. And people wonder what’s wrong with youth sports in America.
Here’s the game plan: we’re going to run the hell out of the reverse play I put in last week that we scored two TDs on and we’re going to use my new “spread defense.” I have a really good feeling about this game.
They’re building a BW3 in this two-horse town. It’s not supposed to open until the spring, but it gives me a glimmering of hope. After I hire some hard drinking interns in Dallas at the Winter Meetings I have a feeling that I will be spending a lot of time at this new establishment.
New Philadelphia High School plays Dover High tonight for the 101st time. New Philadelphia is my alma mater. They’re riding into this game at 8-1, Dover’s 7-2 but undefeated in the league. So this game has a share of the league title on the line, a possible home playoff game, and pride. NP has a one game lead in the all-time series. Last year we won the game for the first time since 1994, my freshman year of high school. This tells you all you need to know about the stability of one program and the lack-there-of of the other. NP leads 46-45-9. This is the second longest high school football rivalry in Ohio behind Massillon-McKinley.
This week was always my favorite in high school. But when I was in high school we only had one winning season (frosh year, 7-3) so the game was just about having a good time and trying to pick fights with Dover kids. NP and Dover are right next to each other so needless to say vandalism and craziness is the flavor for the week. This doesn’t happen in the Mass-McK rivalry because those towns are about twenty minutes apart. In the area this week you have to be 18 to purchase eggs. And the best part of my senior year was that the game was on Halloween so it was twice as nuts. My buddies and I skipped our own bon fire that year so that we could hit Dover players with eggs as they went to their cars after their own bonfire. It was great. I’ve always said that my years in college were far beyond those I spent in high school, but I’d relive that week over and over if I could.
I drove a car in high school that we affectionately called the Bronze Bomb. It in fact was a bronze 1983 four door Buick LeSabre. A tank in Lehman’s terms. It didn’t look like a student’s car. So while my car was parked on the street between Hondas and Cavaliers near NPHS it went untouched while others were covered in egg. And its hefty 307 V8 made getting away from Doverites all the easier. God what a great car. My mom sold it for $400 when I was a junior in college. Considering we bought it for $850 and it had about 150,000 miles on it when it was all said and done I think you could call it a great buy. Very plush seats. I took many a nap in that car while I was skipping class.
That’s enough reminiscing, I’m out.
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