Football

Entering 3rd grade means that TJ can play Football this year. I'm not sure how I feel about my son being tackled, but ok. TJ doesn't seem to hate it, yet he doesn't love it either. I think he is still trying to figure out what everything means, and what the heck to do. We aren't a sports watching family, so he's not familiar with all the positions, and rules and everything like some may be. (And I'm NOT complaining about that! lol) So, we signed him up and he had to have cleats and a mouth gaurd. Everything else is provided. Here he is just after setting his mouth guard. We bought one that molds to your teeth.

And here he is, after we got his pads, helmet, and pants. Isn't he cute?...errr I mean scary.

Number 7 there is my little boy. Littlest one there, but he pushes as much as the others. His Uncle will be proud, his practice jersey is U of U....Go UTES! lol

Here his is locked in combat with another player at practice. Neither one was giving up.

Practicing tackling yellow pads taller than him. There is a video of this later on.

They do all sorts of warm up exercises. He's the dark clothed one with white socks, third from the right of the pic.

In between the yellow and orange guys. Another exercise.

And stretching. Some of the stretches and exercises seem silly, but I guess these guys know what they're doing. Like yesterday...they were bumping shoulder pads with each other, to loosen up their shoulders. LOL Looked hilarious!

So here is are a couple videos of him tackling the yellow pads. He is on the first one.