Powderpuff Football

So I know you all want to see pictures from my Vegas trip but you will have to wait a bit longer for those...they're coming, I swear!

Today I'm going to rant and rave about powderpuff football. I am a junior sponsor at the school where I teach and this year I was in charge of the organization of the junior part of the game. Now supposedly it is a "tradition" that the seniors always win. I say bullshit! That is ridiculous! Of course I told my girls that the game will be called fair and it will go okay. They of course are a bunch of pansies and scared cause the senior team had some big girls on it. Well the game arrived and started with the seniors coming on to the field before the game and dousing my girls with water balloons and twinkies. Yes, I said twinkies...wtf? Real classy! The game gets started and we marched down the field to score the first touch down. THen we go for the two point conversion. Got it. The seniors go down and score but do not convert the extra points. So we are up 8-6 at the end of the first quarter. That's when the trouble began. Next thing you know, the penalties start adding up against the juniors as we consistently march down the field. The seniors are scared and so of course the officials step in and start working their magic so that we can't win. However, we are winning, and unless they score, they can't stop us. However, with the onslaught of bogus penalties, our girls get riled up and start becoming just a bit more aggressive. Nothing is done and the game quickly gets out of hand. Girls are being pushed both ways and getting kicked in the mouth sometimes. Well my co-sponsor has had enough and goes to talk to the referees, telling them in not so nice terms that it needs to be called fair and if there is one more flagrant play, the game is done. No sense in getting someone hurt. Well wouldn't you know it, the next play results in a girl down on the sidelines unable to breathe. She is taken to the ER in an ambulance and that is where the game ends and I spend the rest of my evening. My birthday none-the-less! WTF! Now my problem with this whole scenario is of course the sense of fair play. Now tradition is great and I am all for the kids having a sense of tradition and pride. But to put winning a game above honesty and integrity! To teach our kids it doesn't matter how hard you work, how much you do, you can't win? Give me a break! Just doesn't seem right to me to hand seniors a win regardless of what they do. I thought our job as educators was to instill in these kids a sense of values not a sense that winning is everything. So sad!

Well off to balance my checkbook and check emails! Much love!