Mommas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Play Football...

Or you might end up wanting to go scream at the coaches because for the third year in a row you faithfully attend the football games and sit up in the stands...only to watch your babies sit on the sideline almost the entire game. ARGH!

Unlike my dear hubby, I can manage to with hold my anger until I can get home and vent it out here. Daddy has to go out on the field after the game and let the coaches have it. I get it. Seriously, inside I was quietly cheering him on. However, on the outside I was cringing cause one of the coaches' wives is a fellow teacher. Not in the same building mind you, but in the same school system. So as happy as I am that hubby stands up for our boys when they are being treated unfairly, I am worried this woman will try and cause problems with my job. Is she the kind of person who would do that? I don't know her well enough to answer that question with certainty but instinct says maybe.

But seriously, this is PEE WEE football, which we pay for. So in essence, we are paying to watch our boys sit on the sideline. In 48 minutes of game play, my boys got maybe 2 minutes...COMBINED. It gets very disheartening for a mom to go year after year hoping to watch her sons play only to see them sit on the sidelines for half of the season (or more) until Daddy finally blows a gasket and confronts the coaches. Why does it have to come to that? I mean seriously, how hard is it to put children in a ball game? You have boys who are playing for their first year on our team, and they get to play the entire game. Meanwhile, my boys, who are on their third year, are sitting on the sidelines.

I understand the coaches want to win. But my boys are just as good as some of the ones staying in the entire game. We aren't asking for more time than the other boys. We are asking for equal time. I mean, hey, we pay for them to play just like everyone else. If you want to have that kind of league, then hold try outs and fundraisers and don't charge the players. Otherwise, realize that you have parents who come to EVERY single game faithfully and get very upset when their babies are sitting on the sidelines instead of playing in the game. Even other parents are noticing that ours are sitting on the sidelines. Not mention how upset the boys get that they don't get field time.

It just breaks my heart.

Come on coach, put them in...for more than a minute each.