Our son, Bret Jr., spent this morning banging heads with other 5th graders in his first football game of the season.
This is August - and we still have another three weeks of summer to go - so we all dressed appropriately to watch football on a typical Wisconsin summer day...
Kekoa, in particular, was just overjoyed to be outdoors on this normal Wisconsin August summer day...
When Bretty last played organized football in Nevada several years ago, he played for the Bobcats. Amazingly enough, that's the name of his new team in Door County.
While the name is the same, the referees are competely different.
In Nevada, there was usually a single referee who was just a high school kid wearing a t-shirt and shorts.
That's not the way it is with Bret's new league...
There are four referees, and as David pointed out, they even have cool socks.
The Bobcats were the visitors at Chief's Field in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Bret played at varying times on boths side of the football, periodically at offensive left guard, but mostly at defensive tackle.
He seems to enjoy defense the best. Here he is getting real low just before the snap...
Bret is number 76 and he had a really good game.
In the second quarter he knifed through the offensive line disrupting the play, and another player stripped the football which was recovered by the Bobcats. Here is Bretty and another Bobcat wreaking havoc in the backfield and forcing that fumble...
Bret really did a nice job holding his position at the middle of the defensive line...
Later in the game the Bobcats forced another turnover and here is Bret just before he dived on the ball and recovered the fumble...
In addition to being involved with two fumbles, he recorded 1/2 a sack!
Here's my favorite picture of Bret after he blew through the offensive line and is in hot pursuit of the running back...
Bret's older brother David was overjoyed (well, as overjoyed as you can be on a summer day like this)...
Our boys thrashed Manitowoc...
But more importantly they had fun.
And since we were in Manitowoc - the birthplace of my mother - we stopped by my grandparent's grave...
We also dropped by to my visit my Aunty Dorothy.
But when in Manitowoc, we had to stop for lunch at one of the last car hops around...
Penquin's Drive-In, home of the big penny burger.
Although this isn't the 1950s anymore so it costs a bit more than a penny!
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