LOSING

Jax's 70+ yard touchdown run!!!

I am a firm believer in learning how to play fair, play hard, be a good winner and a better loser.  Unfortunately I didn't know how difficult it would be to comfort a crying 10 year old little boy, or 24 for that matter.  No matter how big my kid is in size, he is still a little boy, who has just had his heart shattered into a million pieces after losing a football game because adults taught children how to cheat and hurt other children.  All Tommy and I could do was hug him and tell him how proud we are of him.  What more can a parent do?

I have never seen little boys go after other little boys like this.  Inmates in a jail yes, little boys? no!  We watched 10 year old little boys try to, and successfully hurt 95% of our boys in one way or another.  Two of our quarterbacks were seriously injured.  One with a possible chip in his hip bone and the other with a possible concussion.  We had boys that had intentional helmet to helmet hits, intentional jumps onto their arms, hands, and even Jax took the intentional jump to his achilles.  Fortunately we have a professional team trainer that loves to run because she was non-stop the entire game.  I laughed when Jax told me that he "accidentally" stepped on the other teams quarterbacks hands... after he took him down during a play.  I must have given him some kind of look because he immediately came back with, "hey, I helped him up after...."  Then I burst out laughing but it didn't take out enough of the sting!!!!

A tough loss yes, but a good lesson that Jax needed.  You see, Jax had never lost a football game.  Somehow, he has always been on the winning end of the clock when it has come to football.  He has lost during soccer and baseball but I honestly think that it didn't matter because he didn't love those sports.  He lives to watch football and learn play.  He respects his coaches and wants to learn.  Baseball and soccer were were just whims but football is his "it" sport..... except for the fact that he has coaches that are trying to talk to him about baseball..   but that is a whole different ballgame all together...................  and blog.............

So.....we move forward to our playoffs with only one questionable loss ....  and the real possiblitly that my son could head to the Arizona State Championship playoff game for the East Valley Junior Pee Wee Division for the Valley.  This could get interesting....  real quick...............................