Week 5

Okay, so we, the Avon Lake Shoremen, are now 2-2.  We have played Avon, Shaker Heights, Massillon Jackson, and North Olmsted.  This week we are set to play Midpark at Midpark’s (so called) home field at Baldwin-Wallace College. 

The Meteor’s are looking decent this year with a good passing attack and an iffy run game.  I feel as if we are going to do well even though our pass defense has not been looking so hot this year.  I expect us to get a good pass rush and to be able to get some hands on the ball on defense.

I also feel like our offense will have a good game.  I think that Dontez will decide to just break loose and that Chris will get the opportunity to pass the ball.  If he gets that opportunity I really hope that he will look like Mike Vick with a deadly passing and rushing attack.  And we all hope that Brett will just be a hero like he was last game.  Also we are looking forward to the best wingback in league to step up get some pancakes se he can make the highlight film that will be better than Mac’s.  All in all I expect that we will do better this week, we can’t come out to cocky though.  

After our game Friday night we will have films Saturday morning to evaluate our performance.  After that it is still all football.  Saturday I expect to watch football, watch some more football and top it all off by watching football with Stanley.  I hear that he is a big fan of the Georgia Bulldogs.  I bet that he would be a bigger fan of a team with a mascot of a pug.  Just saying.  Until next time, the Guru is out.  

Football Memories (Influential Groups)

Well, I was just at one of the most unique experiences I have ever encountered.  I just got home from waiting an hour and forty-five minutes for my check at a restaurant.  Wow that was painful.  Anyway, like I said in my last blog I have had football in my life for as long as I can remember.  With football in my life for this long a lot of memories are associated with it.  Memories that are usually funny and remind me of good times.  I can't really think of any bad memories that I have had with football other than breaking my leg.  My favorite memories usually involve me and Danny Robinson (and sometimes Michael Curtis) doing stupid stuff.

At football practice when we were in 8th grade Danny and I were chosen to go on the punt return team and basically get demolished by the other kids.  Kids who were bigger, faster, and stronger than us.  We had no chance.  For some reason Jake was annoying me and Danny.  Danny and I decided to take out his legs on one of the punts as some sort of sick revenge.  We executed it perfectly; I took out his left ankle and Danny took out his right ankle and Jake ate dirt.  That was the beginning of the Brick Wall Squad.  We did not realize it but one of the most powerful and influential squads to ever hit Avon Lake had just been formed and we were not aware of it.  The official forming of the Brick Wall Squad is another great memory.  It was the first day of full contact our Junior year and Danny was playing corner back and I was playing safety.  Brett kept running the ball to Danny's side and Danny made textbook tackles by taking out Brett's ankles.  This time it was the bigger, faster, and stronger kids who had no chance.  We had found their one weakness...their ankles.  That same year in a scrimmage against Twinsburg, Danny and I were playing defense and Twinsburg was on offense.

Twinsburg had one (attempted) run to me and Danny's side.  Needless to say that was the last play that went to our side.  Twinsburg's running back went off in a stretcher if I remember correctly.  His injury being Absenceofanklesitis.  He had complained about running into a brick wall in the secondary; and that is how the name was created.  Yeah, that sounds about right.  Anyway with the formation of the Brick Wall Squad we were untouchable.  Michael Curtis noticed how influential we were and wanted to join the group.  We told him there was no way because there was a limit on the amount of members in this squad, two.  We then decided to make the second most influential group in all of ALHS.  This is the Brain Trust.  The amount of members in this group is greater than the Brick Wall Squad's, there are three.   The Brain Trust was a group of extraordinary gentlemen who stood next to each other during the Varsity football games and took notice of how the moon would line up directly between the field's lights.  You might make fun of us now but at the next Shoremen game, about halfway through the fourth quarter look up and you'll see what I mean.  Well I got talking about nothing again.  Dang.  Even though this was just a story of the creation of some amazing groups it was good to take a trip down memory lane.  Ta ta for now.

Football and my Life

Ah, football.  It has been in my life and the lives of millions of kids, parents, and coaches.  Oh, and it has also been in the life of a dog named Stanley but that is beside the point.

I have had football in my life for as long as I can remember.  I remember going out on any day of the week rain or shine and playing catch with my dad or brothers.  I started to officially play full contact football in 5th grade for a team in a little town named Dunlap.  The teams's name was the Dunlap Eagles and we were not good.  With my muscular stature and height that was equivalent to Shaq's they had me playing outside linebacker and tight end.  Yes, I know what all of you are thinking. You think that I was like Clay Matthew's out on the field and tossing offenders out of the way to make that tackle only to emerge from the pile-up as majestically as Hasselhoff would run down the beach to make a save.  Surprisingly, I was not.  It was a bigger mistake to put  me at these positions than for the Broncos to trade Hillis to the Browns.  Oh well.  After playing there for a few years my family had to move to none other than Avon Lake, Ohio.  I started playing for the Shoremen in 8th grade and the coaches made the right decisions and moved me to more suitable positions. I have stayed at  wide receiver and safety ever since.  Now I am a senior and start at Free Safety for the Shoremen.  Everyday while signing autographs or receiving fan mail people ask me why I play football.  I respond with the same two word answer ever time.  "For Stanley" is what I respond with, they know what it means.  Until next time, the Guru is out.