Greatwood Packers Football - Jared Game 7

I have fallen behind on the football games by a week so I need to try and get caught-up. On October 20th the Greatwood Packers played their 7th game against the Pecan Grove Hurricanes. It was a warm and muggy day here in Houston (which is pretty much normal) as we headed to the Hurricanes field. The bleacher facilities were not as nice as other places where we have played or our home field, but the good side of that is I was able to get closer to take some pictures.

Here are the Packer freshmen in defensive action.

Packers penetrating the line.

Jared in his sun glasses on the side line looking cool.

I was able to get Jared to smile for this picture once he knew his picture was being taken.

Once Jared got his arm out of the sling, he started making himself useful as the team water boy. Here he is filling the water bottles for his team.

Jared working carefully to get the lid back on the water bottle.

Jared is so enthralled with the action on the field that he can hardly take his eyes off the game. Or, maybe not.

Jared making another good toss with his Gatorade bottle.

Packers defense lined-up and ready for action. This was a good game and the Packers won it 14 to 6. That brought their record to 5 wins and 2 losses. Jared's team has really done good this year.

On a side note, the doctor examined Jared after the game (the orthopedic surgeon's son plays on Jared's team) and declared his collarbone healed and released him back to his full activities. We knew that before by how Jared was acting and our difficulty in keeping him from hurting himself and others the last few weeks. With that release, Jared started football practice the following Tuesday. I spoke with the coach and Jared has not been doing the hard hitting drills and we decided he would not play in any games because we do not want him to get re-injured. In addition, Jared is so far behind his teammates after all this time being out that it would be frustrating for both Jared and the coaches to try and get him caught-up. So he is running with the kids to get some exercise and some of that excess energy out, but not hitting and playing. His first day back at practice the team applauded as he came out on the field. We think that helping Jared to finish what he started will be good for him the rest of his life.