Personal bragging about things that I did not do

Yesterday I went out to Hartland to watch our niece play in the sectional girl's soccer finals for Mequon Homestead against Wauwatosa West. The Highlanders came back from a 2-o deficit to win 3-2 and advance to state. It was one of those classic "refuse to quit" stories. Very large congratulations to Monica and her teammates. They showed a lot of the stuff that sports is supposed to teach us.

Since I don't get to a lot of high school sporting events (it may have been the first one since 1974), one of the things that struck me was the "boy jocks" cheering section which seemed to be largely made up of Homestead football players. Back when I was in high school, male athletes were indifferent to or actively disdainful of girl's sports. I myself wrote a (slightly) satirical column in the school paper about the new (it was) girl's basketball team and couldn't get a date for three months (not that there was anything unusual about that).

But these guys (who won the state championship themselves) were way into the game. They were rabid. At the end of the game, they fired up the suburban parents - a group that is not generally shy about cheering for their children.



And speaking of cheering, I feel compelled to note again Shark II's graduation from UWM.

The two the left are my lineal descendants which means that you ought to pray for the poor woman on the right.