We attended almost a half of a high school football playoff game Friday night and a college soccer conference championship on Saturday. We also watched a KU basketball game, a KU soccer tournament game and the end of Monday night NFL game is happening right now.
Most of my Friday night observations were comparing football games here, now, to football games in suburban Denver in 1987 (shockingly, it was more fun then) but I did have a few actual ball sports thoughts. Coaching, for instance, is entirely different in soccer, basketball and volleyball than it is in football. Football is a game of strange logistics, and at high school that is really remarkable. Getting fifty teenagers to pay attention to anything is really impressive. Getting fifty people to go where you want them to go is tough. Getting fifty guys to get on and off a field and lined in particular places is really quite something.
It's also a good reminder that they could probably follow the instructions on their lab reports.
(And, for the record, the local high school football team won, so will continue with the play-offs. The KU basketball team won. The local university won the soccer conference tournament and will start NCAA Division II tournament next weekend. KU soccer won and advances in the NCAA Division I Tournament. The Broncos did not win, but I did not watch that collapse, and the Chiefs just did win.)
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