Aw Darn... Friendswood Lost .....

It's with a traitorous (but conflicted) heart that I write this blog entry.

We made our way to Aggieland yesterday for a very onesided game in which our beloved Friendswood Mustangs were playing against the Lake Travis Cavaliers. A little background on the matchup is in order. First, Friendswood rarely ever gets out of our district for playoffs. We have several other division rivals with larger and faster players normally that typically wipe our white boys out. However, this year, we have a great quarterback and several very good receivers and a good overall team. It appears in High School football, clearly, if you can score more than the opponent (i.e. your offense is better than theirs), then defense is kind of secondary. Anyway... so we had a good offense this year. The other interesting thing is football games, whether a winning season or not, is a community event here in Friendswood. You go to the games whether you have high school students or not. Alumni attend and alumni parents bring their little children from the time they are small so they grow up going to the games on Friday nights. The epitome of Texas High School Football. With this in mind, it was amazing to see the entire side of the Aggie stadium filled with Friendswood supporters all in blue. Literally, from corner to corner was filled. We don't have that many people in the high school and I know for certain there were folks there who have no one in high school as their youngest were in the elementary!! Tailgating and everything..

The Friendswood Quarterback has committed to Texas Tech (there ya go Stacey) to play. He's good.

However...... Lake Travis and their QB were better!! Their Quarterback is just awesome and a big guy!! Lake Travis is considered the #1 - 4A Team in Texas and they won last year's State Championship as well. They have beaten every team they have played this year by typically large margins and high points. The game last week in the playoffs they beat Kileen 71 - 9! So.... beating Friendswood 56 - 22 was nothing!! (Oh and our last touchdown was against their 2nd and 3rd string team in the 4th quarter with our 1st string, so it was worse than it looks). NOW, here is the GOOD NEWS!! The Quarterback at Lake Travis, Garrett Gilbert, is the number one recruit in the country and he committed to .....................wait for it..........................

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS!!!! GO HORNS!!!!

YAY Horns, we should have a really good QB coming in behind Colt McCoy when after his last year.

The other REALLY good news.... we don't have to travel to another football game next week and actually get to experience a little Christmas instead of football!!! hee hee hee!!!

Later... we're still working on decorating the tree around here!!!

MA