Sometimes in Life...

We are now deep into the football season, and it's one of the highlights of my life...it's my escape. The Cowboys are undefeated and for now, the favorites to go all the way. They just have to overcome their long streak of not having a single playoff win, including last season when they lost at home after having a bye. So far, they haven't had any significant injuries, and that could be the key.

The Longhorns are undefeated and on their way to the big Texas-Oklahoma game in a few weeks with Oklahoma having a chance to grab the number 1 spot and Texas could move into the top 5 or 6 with USCs loss lst night.

Then, we have Drew's team. I mentioned before that, before the season started, Drew came up and said he wasn't sure he wanted to play. After some discussion, he confessed that he didn't want to play because he was nervous that they would make him the quarterback. I assured him that he wouldn't be the quarterback--that he was an ideal fullback. Well, he is still ideally a fullback, but he is the starting QB. He does love it, but he takes it too serious...yes, I said he takes it too serious. We have had a couple of bad losses, but we are 1-0 in conference play. We've already beat another of the conference teams 20-6, so if we can beat them again, we are assured of a playoff spot. Our first team defense has only had 2 TDs scored on them, and our offense is starting to pick up. We have to correct the fact that we have scored 5 TDs in the second half and 0 in the first.

All that said, football is just an escape. The Cowboys and the Horns play on with or without me, and Drew's time will be over before I know it. Right now I watch Drew pouring his heart into it. He has agony in defeat and only mild satisfaction in victory. That's the way I feel about life sometimes. Sometimes there is just something small that can just ruin my day. And, actually there is one thing that can ruin any day for me. We all, at times, have that "thorn in our side." Many times it finally goes away for good, but usually it is a "thorn" stuck in our lives because we have no control as to it's presence.

So, I have nothing enlightening or profound to say...just hating that my "thorn" won't go away, and giving you that reminder of your "thorn" to ruin your day, I guess...sorry...

Football

I posted last year that the Patriots had sold their soul to the devil, but I chose to associate myself with the devil and have fallen on hard times. I took Brady with my 7th overall pick in the first round of my fantasy football draft. Brady gets me 3 points in the season opener and then goes down for the year with a torn ACL and MCL. Now my season is already a wreck. What a spiritual lesson. You watch and hate them for their success, but you just can't help but attach yourself to them to try to gain from it personally, and it all comes crashing down around them and you go down with them. At least this opens things up for the Cowboys to have a chance to win it all...and I'm stuck starting Brian Griese-fingers at QB.

On another note, the boys looked good in their win this week against CLE. I'm ready for the Monday-nighter against Philly though. Go Cowboys!

While we are on football, Drew is the starting QB for his Pee Wee Wildcat team. He scored his first touchdown this last Saturday on a keeper around the left side and immediately followed it by running a quarterback sneak to get the 2-pt. conversion. They beat Holliday 20-6. I am the special teams coach, and I was proud of my group as they recovered 2 onside kicks and returned a kickoff to the 8 yard line. We are in Bowie this week to face the undefeated mighty rabid jackrabbits...might be playing in some heavy rain as the rains of Ike move inland, but we'll see.