Nick and Nathan melting in the hot sun
Nathan getting double teamed
Water!!!
Dawson giving some kid the business
Captains on the field for the coin toss
Ryan running for a TD
Saturday started out like any other except the heat was in the 90 's which is not a great football temperature when your team is Alta whose colors are Black. Luckily we got to wear our white jerseys and silver pants but still had to wear our black helmets.
Dawson was first up against Murray Spartans. His team took a while to get going but eventually found its grove and won the game easily 35-0. As Ive mentioned before Dawson has worked hard and this week, he was to start both ways offense and defense good for you Dawson. Then came the melt down. I don't know if it was the early morning game, lack of sleep, but somewhere between his coach yelling at him to stop messing with his helmet it happened. He promptly told his coach that he was done, he hated football and only played because his dad made him. Yikes!
Replacing a starter is not an easy thing for any coach. This news had to be a Shocker. Thanks to Coach Anderson and his Line coach they were able to put some water on the melt down and Dawson played fine, But less obviously.
Nathan was next against Jordan Grey it was a tough outing in the heat of the day. Nathan played some of the best football I've seen him play. He was aggressive and his intensity was great. One problem for him was that he was getting double teamed almost on every play this added to Nathans fire. Just before half time Nathans team lost there running back to a bad tibia fibula fracture. Poor kid had to leave in an ambulance. In the second half Nathans team had to fight back to come from behind to win 15-14. During the game Nathan was so into leading his team he was yelling "come on Defense" so loud that he told Mary he must have lost his mind (translated: melt down of his brain) because he even scared himself. He told her that it was because he sounded like dad for a minute. Thanks Nathan.
Ryan's game was in the afternoon against West Jordan Blue. We tried to sit under the shade of a tree while we waited for our time. Man was it hot. The other team looked big. I thought they would have given us a better challenge but we ended up winning 27-0. Ryan scored on an end around play where he had to stretch his arms out to get the ball over the pylon. He dropped another ball that would have been a touch down. It was in an awkward position just behind and above his head it would have been a tough catch but as I tell Ryan if you get your hands on the ball you better catch it. He redeemed himself later by catching a ball in the end zone on a Trips Right 931 X in play. In the end every one won this week end good job boys and Ryan thought he would melt if we didnt end the day with a Tigers blood slurpee to cool down.
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