Miracles

In football miracles don't happen very often. However, this past weekend there were quite a few miracles involving my teams.

On Friday night, my school played the Athens Drive Jags. We have never won against them in the history of our school, and at first it looked like it was going to stay that way. We trailed for the whole game up until the fourth quarter. At the start of the quarter we were down by seventeen points with the score at 30-13. We got a touchdown a few minutes in. Then another touchdown. We then had a successful onside kick which we recovered to score another touchdown. When Athens got the ball for the last time in the game we were up 33-30, and all we had to do was hold 'em. We did more than that we intercepted the ball to ensure that if we could just run the clock down we would win. We won the game with twenty unanswered points in the fourth quarter. Our record went up to 8-0. I believe that this was truly a miracle.

On Saturday, my un-ranked Longhorns played undefeated number five Nebraska Cornhuskers. Texas' offense started out on fire. Garrett Gilbert was running the ball more than I had ever seen. Obviously changing the offensive set up was not a great idea considering that we dominate when we go back to the old way. Texas pulled out a huge win and re-entered the rankings at number nineteen (BCS poll.)

On Sunday, my two NFL teams played. The first game of the day was the Browns- Steelers. Colt McCoy was starting his first NFL game on that day. This by itself is a miracle due to the fact that he was told he was not going to play at all this year. The second miracle in that game was that Colt threw for a touchdown. That was only the second touchdown the Steelers have ever allowed from a rookie quarterback. Colt also threw for his first touchdown before Tim Tebow did which made me extremely happy.

The second game on Sunday was the Cowboys- Vikings. The only miracle in this game was that Brett Favre could still walk. The Cowboys lost this game to bring their record to 1-5. Oh well better luck next year.

Hopefully this weekend is packed with wins and miracles just like last week.

History in the Making

Lots of people make history. You win 8 zillion gold medals in the Olympics, you make history. You run the fastest 40 yard dash ever, you make history. You explore the future western portion of the United States, you make history. Many things can help make history. My school just happens to be making its own history.

My schools football team is currently 6-0. We have made history multiple times this year. When we went 2-0 we had the best start in school history. We got our first shutout in the third game of the season (we got our second one last Friday night.) We have now won more games than we ever have in a single season. We made it to the playoffs last year, but hopefully we can make history this year by going further than the first round. I wouldn't mind a state championship. Considering this is only our 5th year as a school and 4th year with a varsity football team, I think it would be safe to say that we are doing pretty dang well. No one expected this kind of thing out of such a young school but it can happen.

This Friday we take on our "rival" Green Hope. I don't consider them a threat because of their 30 something game loosing streak. I'm hoping this game goes well for us and we can move up to 7-0.