This was Cole's 2nd season to play football. He only played defense last year and not a whole lot. He was very timid out there and usually tried to avoid the play until he was sure he wasn't going to get flattened.
This year a new age group was created and Cole could either move up or stay down. We chose to keep him down and have him be one of the older and bigger ones on the team and build his confidence instead of getting demolished another year. Keeping him down also allowed for Nathan to coach his own team and play Cole where ever he wanted.
So that made Cole playing Quarterback and Defensive End. And sometimes the Punter, too. And playing the whole game. He worked really hard this year to toughen up and find that aggression that football requires. He did pretty well for his first time dealing with the pressure of Quarterback AND his dad yelling at him as head coach.
We were sponsored by a local bank and given the color navy so, Nathan felt it was fitting to be named the Cowboys. Suhweet!
Brooke wanted a shirt to wear to the games that said Cowboys on it so, her Nana sent her one all the way from Texas. I found a smaller one of Cole's that she liked to wear, too. It was so cute that she wanted to support her big brother.
She didn't really ever watch him though.
She always found other kids to play with pretty quickly.
Nathan did such a good job giving his little pep talk speeches to the kids. He would often mention that Coach Steven was looking down on them and was very proud of them. I know all of the parents were very impressed with him.
Cole finally asked to cut his hair all off that he grew out all summer. He said it was because it was getting in his eyes under his helmet. I'm sure that it was but, I think he was also tired of fixing it before school, too. He said he looked cooler with it gone though. :-)
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