Tonight was our last home football game, and let me tell you, even I wanted to cry at the end of it.
Our boys played amazingly, and the refs just gave the game to Torrington.
It was the fourth quarter and we were ahead 17-12. One of our boys makes an interception and runs all the way from one end zone to the other, and scores!!!!!!
Everyone is crazy excited because, well, this is crazy exciting!
The points don't show up on the scoreboard.
The refs called a penalty, on our team. We did nothing wrong, but the touchdown doesn't count.
We're all mad, but it's okay because we're still gonna win, which means we might go to playoffs.
There's less than a minute left, Torrington is dangerously close to their end zone. They score a touchdown with 11 seconds left. We lost. By three points. With 11 freakin seconds left.
My favorite coach was balling his eyes out with one of the senior boys. I hugged him.
They were so close to winning. Even the volleyball players helped us yell to our boys cheers saying how proud we were. Almost every single boy was crying as they walked into the locker room tonight.
It's always sad to see teenage boys cry.
They played their hearts out and I am so proud of them.
4 comments:
That sucks. I've seen it happen time and time again, not with football of course, but with soccer. Winning is good, but knowing that you played your best is always the most important thing, despite what others may do or say to bring it down.
i have never applauded a team as they go into their locker room.
tonight i did.
it was a great game.
except for the tears. that was heartbreaking.
and the coach keeping the one player from attacking the refs after. that was odd to watch.
they deserved the win.
The coach was bawling his eyes out??? In front of the team??????
hmmmm....... that had to make it harder for the kids.
Not good.
I just watched "Miracle" (with Kurt Russell) for a class assignment, now I have to write a paper about it, but it was the story of the 1980 USA Olympic hockey team -- an amazing thing that I remember it (!!!!!!!!), but the movie was tremendous.
Can't win every game, but just playing your best is worth Kudos in my book.... the coach should have been cheering the boys on, not crying.
Doing one's best is all we can do, winning everything, not so.
Yup. teenaged boys have lots of emotions too, they're really good at keeping them bottled up, usually, but they're there.
Your team is lucky to have such dedicated girls cheering them on! Sweet~
you should get the ref's names and post this all over the internet. i'll help.
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