Football And Champions!

This year Ty was able to play his first year of Tackle Football!  He has been dying to play for a couple of years and was so excited to get started.  He was 'recruited' to the Colts and we soon found out that the Colts were a dynasty team in our league - in the five years of the team they had only lost 2 times, both in the Superbowl!  To say the very least everyone in the league wanted to beat us. We knew these guys were serious going in and so a few weeks before practice started Steve and Ty would go out early in the morning to get in some conditioning.  Tyler was more than ready when they started and soon had the bruises and soreness that go hand in hand with football. 

Although his hope was to play reciever or tightend, he was needed on the defense.  (besides they don't pass the ball too much around here) He started playing Defensive End, played a little D-Tackle and then went back to End.  The improvement he made throughout the season was AMAZING! 

As for the team they had a really challenging year.  Our team is one of the smallest in the league and despite that the boys fought hard and usually won.  The real shocker this year, especially for those who have played for this Colts team for years, was the 3 losses in the middle of the season.  It was a big shocker for the coaches and the boys and they had to dig deep to deal with it.  I think in the end it really helped get a little perspective and made the boys work harder.  For awhile we didn't even think the playoffs would be an option.  The boys pulled together after the losses and were able to rally and win out the rest of their games.  The playoffs were amazing and we won our first game!  The second game against the Gators, we expected to be tough and boy was it.  With only seconds left the Defense made a stand on the goal line to put the game into overtime!  It was such a great game and we pulled out the win in overtime to head to the superbowl!

The superbowl game was played in the city HighSchool stadium.  It was so much fun and I learned that I am totally that loud cheering, screaming, obnoxious football mom.  Although as a disclaimer I am not rude, just loud.  In fact I have to admit that most games Steve wouldn't sit by me because I was so loud!  Haha!  Anyway, the superbowl game was awesome and Tyler played an amazing game to help the team win.  Despite not really being excited to play on the defense he loved it in the end and in the superbowl game had 6 or 7 tackles!  It was so much fun to watch and to see him win after the hours and hours of practice and hard work was really cool. 

I love this picture because it gives you an idea about how big some
 of the boys were that we played. Tyler is behind that big guy in the middle!
 This team in particular was HUGE! Ty
isn't by no means short or small for his age, but he was so small compared to these guys!

Grandma came to visit for a couple of days and was able to come to a game.
Nana and Granddad came to 2 games, but I didn't get any pictures with them!

Getting ready for the Championship game!