Lots of Football and a Party

Hello everyone this, is Morry.

Today was the flag football playoffs.  Noah could have played a maximum two games today and Evan had a maximum three games.  

Noah's games were first.  Noah's team hadn't won a game all year, though the team improved.  Noah also improved greatly.  In the first game, Noah's team finally got over the hump and won their first game.  Noah had a few runs but he did better on defense.  He pulled several flags.  It was nice to see the kids get their first win.

The second game didn't go as well, unfortunately.  Noah still played well though despite the team not playing well.  Noah had a couple big runs and several key flag pulls.  Overall, it was a good season for him.

Rachel and Noah went home and then Evan had an hour practice before his game.

In Evan's game, the officiating was really poor.  It was probably the worst officiating I've seen in flag football.  Officials will always make good and bad calls.  That's inevitable.  As long as they are doing the best they can, then you can accept it.  My problem, though, with youth officiating is when the official doesn't put him or herself into a position to make a call.  I see it in baseball where the umpire doesn't run over to make the call. They'll just make it from across the field.  Simply taking 5 steps towards the play may have resulted in a different call.  Sometimes it's hard to be in the right position, but more often than not, it seems like laziness.   In Evan's game today, the officials just were never in the right position to make a call and it was clearly laziness.  They were trailing the play too far, or they forgot to watch the quarterback.  I think that was frustrating to the boys.  Evan's team lost by 2, but probably should have won by 10 if they had been in the proper position.   Evan had a good game.  He caught a touchdown pass and almost made a great catch on the extra point.  He had some flag pulls as well.  Evan's coach was very happy with him.

We stopped at Smoothie King on the way home.  Evan got a big smoothie.

At dinner time we went to the Hughes house for their after-Halloween party.  The kids played kickball in the backyard.  It was a nice time.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Until next time...