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Friday night I hardly slept at all, just thinking about our game Saturday night vs. Prattville. I must have visioned 1,000 different plays in my head. Saturday morning I arrived at the field house at 8 a.m. to eat breakfast with the team. We had biscuts and then went through a 30 minute walk-through. It wasn't hard to sense the vibe that everyone was anxious and ready to play. This is what we worked the past 2 and half months for. Then came the bad news. Coach Grass told us the game had been can… Continue

Saturday was one of the most inspirational days of football I have ever been apart of. Every single kid that plays football in the city of Oxford got to scrimmage on the varsity field. 7 year olds started the day at about 1 o'clock and the varsity team finished the night of at around 9:30. It brought me right back to my pee-wee football days when I saw the kid with his knee pads in backwards, a massive crossbar facemasks, and neither shoe tied. Sometimes we might take football for granted. Every… Continue

Today was our last really physical practice of the week before our big scrimmage on Saturday night. You get the feeling our team is getting better as we practice more(which is what I was hoping for). We have a big challenge ahead of us in 2 weeks as we take on 2-time defending state champion Prattville, in our fall jamboree. Most teams might be anxious or possibly worried, but that's not the vibe I get from our team. It feels is though we are just taking it day-by-day. We know God controls our d… Continue