Holy Toledo!

Wow! The other night we went to the mother of all awards banquets. It was 5 HOURS long! The Academy Awards has nothing on the Mission Hills Football program for awards ceremonies. Granted, we did have dinner, but that only took about a half hour. I realize that a football team has a ton of players and for the most part the proceedings were pretty interesting but it was hard on the bum and the bladder to sit there for 5 HOURS. Since there are so many players on a team and they play a lot of different positions it's kind of hard to just give out the usual 3 or 4 awards so our coaching staff decided to go the other way and give out about a million. I was wondering how they would honor the many players who contributed so much to our season with only a couple of awards like best defensive player, offensive player and MVP. There were just too many good players who needed to be recognized so they came up with some really intricate titles for their awards. My favorite was "Best Sophomore to Play on the Defensive Line". What was so funny was that there was only one sophomore who played on the defensive line. He was the best of....1, himself. He definitely deserved recognition but I thought it was funny the lengths the coaches had to go to to create recognition. Since we had an amazing running back and tight end who deserved every good thing we could give them, I wondered what, if anything, they would give Hunter. He had a really good season but he's only a junior and these other two guys were amazing and they are seniors. They got MVP and Offensive Player so they invented one for Hunter, "Outstanding Junior". I was happy but my competitive sons thought he should have gotten "Co-Offensive Player". That's o.k. There's always next year. It will take me that long to recover from this incredibly loooooong ceremony. Thank heavens I only have to do it one more time!