Football!

 

Luke played football this fall – a long anticipated opportunity. He’s been asking to play for years now and we’ve always emphatically, said “No.”  I was mostly concerned about head injuries (and I still am) but now that I’ve seen how different it actually is, I’m willing to let him participate.  And to no one’s surprise, he absolutely loved it.

Football was a great way for him to ease into the high school scene even before school started.  Football lifts and light practices start in early August and the season officially kicked off with doubles sessions well before the first day of school.  There were lots of Joe’s Brooklyn Pizza charges on my credit card that lined up with the breaks in between sessions. 

He spent hours on the field and off with new friends and he, of course, embraced the sheer physicality of the sport.  We enjoyed watching the games and he got more playing time as the season went on.  In the last game of the season, he had 2 touchdown saving tackles on defense that allowed the team to achieve a shutout.