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I send out a hearty kudos to my son for sharing MVP for yesterday\u2019s game.\u00a0 Yes, they were mauled by a larger and wealthier school.\u00a0 Yes, they\u2019re only in middle school and it doesn\u2019t mean I should expect shaving cream and Ford truck endorsement offers anytime soon.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the thing.\u00a0 My boy, God love him, is a 6\u2032 4\u2033 linebacker trapped in the body of the second smallest kid on the team.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t help that he\u2019s an entire year younger than most of the others, in addition to getting his height from dear old Dad.\u00a0 But despite that \u2013 and this is from the defensive coach and the head coach \u2013 there are few kids on the team more motivating, who play with more heart and more fearlessness than he does.\u00a0 The bigger kids on the other team may swat him down like so many pesky flies, but he bounces right back and hits them again: tackling, diving into the pile, grabbing the ankles, doing anything he can.\u00a0 Though he also plays wide receiver, it\u2019s as cornerback that he shines.\u00a0 Despite being physically small, the other team learned quickly to run the ball on the opposite side of the field after a few plays.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

So well done young fellow.\u00a0 Like your older brothers, you make us proud.\u00a0 And you do it with that little spark, that twinkle in your eye that had an entire section of kids behind us rooting you on and cheering over how popular you are.\u00a0 Congrats.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I send out a hearty kudos to my son for sharing MVP for yesterday\u2019s game.\u00a0 Yes, they were mauled by a larger and wealthier school.\u00a0 Yes, they\u2019re only in middle school and it doesn\u2019t mean I should expect shaving cream and Ford truck endorsement offers anytime soon.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the thing.\u00a0 My boy, God love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nContinuing my non-Catholic blogging blogging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I send out a hearty kudos to my son for sharing MVP for yesterday's game.  Yes, they were mauled by a larger and wealthier school.  Yes, they're\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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