The season kicked off last night with the GP/King game. GP started weak, got angry and strong and came back… but pulled back in the end and lost. 28-20. Monkey had a sore throat and a cough, so we left after half time. When we left, I was sure they were going to win. Oh well.
It was nice to be back at the stadium. We have season tickets (to watch the band, mainly), and we’re surrounded by the same people every year. There are 3 sweet older men who sit behind us every year, and the really large one likes Duckie. Last year he frequently made comments that Duckie is so cute he wants to eat him up. I’m hoping to heaven that he doesn’t make comments like that this year, because Duckie is likely to believe him at this age (especially considering the man’s size).
My boys are complete opposites at the games. Last night, Monkey got out of the car with a book. Some fantasy novel. I made him put it back, but when we got to our seats, I found out that he had a mini electronic game in his pocket (20 Q), and he played that for the entire duration of the first half. Duckie, on the other hand, LOVES football, and kept whooping and clapping when there was a good play on the field. The only thing that got Monkey excited was when the clock showed 10 seconds to half-time. (He wants to be a drummer, and LOVES watching the band.) He put his 20Q game away when the teams left the field. Duckie yelled,”Hey! Where are the football teamers going?!” He’s a toddler with limitless energy, so I knew he wouldn’t be able to grasp that they had to go rest. So I told him they all had to go potty really bad. He nodded. That he CAN relate to.
The half time show was really good. GP’s sound and show was SO much stronger than that of King. Am I biased? Yeah. But so what. Once a band geek, always a band geek. (I am having shirts made for E and myself that say, “Proud former G-P band geek”… and the back is going to say, “Old band geeks never die… they just leave after half-time.”) (I had shirts made for Froggie and her two friends that say “GP MARCHING BAND” and in smaller print underneath it says “What’s the football team doing on our field?!”)
After half time, we left so Monkey could get to bed (he took a benadryll at the game, and was crashing). We had to rush out before the teams took the field again, because Duckie would have thrown a fit if he knew the game wasn’t over.
Froggie was excited because it was her first game as a band officer. She got to meet the other band’s officers, and introduce them to the GP band (and she and the other GP officers got introduced to King’s band). It’s a big deal to band geeks, and she was really happy. She was still talking about it this morning.
This morning, Monkey was talking about how cool the drum line looked, and how cool it was that a member of the football team marched with the drum line wearing his football uniform (now that’s a dedicated band geek). The first thing Duckie asked upon waking was, “Is there another football game today?”
