It’s a whole new ballgame.
This was my view on Saturday afternoon.
My oldest is down there on the right, member of the Fighting Blue Hose.
He didn’t dress in pads for the game because they might red-shirt him, this season. Not sure — I’m just a mom?
But it was fun going to the game on Saturday.
As a person who has attended college football games all her life, I became acutely aware of something a bit different.
We sat in the stands surrounded by folks similarly situated as us. Not just in proximity, but with children on the team. And a lot of their sons were on the field.
So I cheered a lot.
That’s not so unusual. But I didn’t criticize either.
Watching football up in the stands or in front of the television, when a player drops a ball or fails to make a catch — that’s what you do — editorialize. Right?
Seated next to parents, siblings and loved ones cheering for their sons, brothers and friends, I had a keen awareness that what happens to players on the field is felt by folks up in the stands.
This Saturday, Presbyterian travels to Georgia Tech to play the Yellow Jackets who lost on Monday night to Virginia Tech.
Georgia Tech might be set to open a can of make-up whoop-a on the Hose. Jake has enjoyed the preparation all week even though he will be watching the game with some of his freshman teammates back in Clinton.
Whatever happens on Saturday night, I’m not going to comment negatively on the players. That’s part of their coaches’ job.
I couldn’t criticize my son — I can’t do the same to another mother’s youngin’.
That said….
Go Blue and beat those rascally Yellow Romper Stompers.
How do you feel sitting in the stands when you child is playing?
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