Football has started

Much has happened in the last 3 days as far as football goes. My beloved Ducks looked horrible offensively against Boise State and to cap it off, LeGarrette Blount sucker punched a player and got suspended for the season. I coached my first high school football game on Friday night. Inglemoor vs. Juanita. The guys played hard, made some good plays, made some mistakes and were in a position to tie or win with a minute left and we fell short. I wore a headset on the sideline communicating between the head coach and quaterback/passing game coach. I had a total rookie coaching mistake as I went out on the field during an injury timeout to talk with a player. Apparently you can't do that and normally it would be a penalty, but my head coach told the referee that it was my first time coaching so he let it slide. It is weird being a coach after being a player all those years. But to be standing on the turf on a Friday night under the lights, never gets old. High school football is fun. It will be a good season. Then the Huskies played Saturday night. Normally I wouldn't even watch but curiosity got the best of me and I watched pretty much the whole game. They were impressive even though LSU got the best of them with some great quaterback to receiver connections. Terrance Tolliver for LSU looked pretty good. He is a 6'5" receiver that can run. Locker and Chris Polk both had great moments for the Huskies but LSU put too many big plays past the Husky defense. I have to say I wanted to see them upset LSU for the Pac-10 sake. Three more high school games to coach in the next 6 days (2 JV and one Varsity), then in two weeks I am road tripping to Eugene with the family to watch the Ducks live in Autzen stadium. Something about going back to Eugene makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I get to crash at my good friends house Matt Labounty that I played college and pro ball with. Talk about a quality friend. I remember 12 years ago sitting with him on a Seahawks' chartered flight to one of our games and talking about life. Here we are a dozen years later still enjoying it together. Here he is at the top as a Green Bay Packer back in the day.