2009 State Touch Football Tournament
When i was in college, my dad told me every fall that it would be great if we could play touch football together. he had been playing touch football for 25 or so years and as a kid, i spent many a fall on the sidelines of his touch games (usually playing the sideline catch game with other kids). when i graduated college, i did not play tackle football for the first time in 14 years that first fall… but following in daddy’s footsteps, i played touch. fact: fall of 2002, i played in 3 different leagues, coached HS football and worked out religiously… it was football, football, football (aka wonderful). while i missed the tackle, the touch leagues did help me out the following year when i stumbled across a couple semi-pro leagues in the area… but that story is for another time. i was going to just play in one league with a group of buddies from HS that fall, when my dad said “you’re playing with us”. i didn’t think that a bad idea, cuz the team my dad played for had won the class A state championship the two years prior.
before those two championships, my dad had played in over 30 state tournaments for touch football and had never won the class A – he’d been on a couple teams that had won class B and C, but never class A. i come into the picture and my first year, we win the state class A championship in a perfect tournament. we won first two games on saturday and then two games on sunday – we collect our hardware and celebrate our victories. it was during that celebration my dad gave me and another guy (new to the team and touch football scene) a bunch of crap. “it took me 25 years to win my first state championship, and you guys come in and win in your first year!” he joked.
it was good times, i’ve played in the state tournament ever year since 2002 (simple math will tell you that’s 8). we won it all the first 5 years i played; in fact, i hadn’t lost a game in the tournament in those first 5 years. we won two on saturday, won two on sunday, collected our hardware and went to celebrate! we had what some might call a dynasty in the world of touch football in the state of minnesota.
Read the rest of this entry »
