Football Friday Night

Yes, I know it's Friday, so this should be named
"Football Thursday Night" but I'm reaching for a bit of consistency here, and regular season games are on Friday, so bear with me.

Last night was Brentwood's traditional last preseason game, the John Hancock Academy Fall Football Kickoff Classic. It's a basic jamboree-type series of ballgames over a three day period. Area teams play 4 ten minute quarters with no kicking game and coaches in the backfield watching.


This has been the first time Boy and his junior teammates have been able to play in the Kickoff- it's been rained out the past two years. Of course, when we could use a little monsoon rain, none appeared. So we played.

Of course, we like a tough match. None tougher than the Trinity Christian Academy of Dublin, the State AA champions. The Trojans are older and bigger than most of our guys, and their star running back is 6'4, weights 220 and runs a 4.5 "4o". He plowed through our line. Boy got a few licks on him, though--that was fun.


We finally got into gear in the 4th quarter. By
then, they had scored 4 times, but it was nice to see Boy run up the gut for 30 yards, then run a classic fullback sweep for a touchdown.


28-8.

But Coach emails that he is pretty happy after looking at the films this morning. A tough workout is always nice before the true beginning of the season, and as Trinity is in another region, we won't come across them until playoff time.

Next week, John Hancock comes to play on our newly-resodded-with leftover-Super-Bowl-Sod field. Yes, Super Bowl sod. The grower, Phillip Jennings, is a friend of the school. He grows about 5 extra acres "just in case", and this year, he donated the extras to Brentwood. Eagle Field looks like a putting green. It's amazing. Pics next week.