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This is Keegan’s second season playing in the city’s flag-football league. It’s a pretty good league, especially from a parent’s point of view. There are no practices (which is both a blessing and a curse) and only one game a week. It’s also a 5-on-5 league to boot, so all of the kids get to have a turn playing all of the positions.

There is a tackle football league he could have played in, but in terms of the level of commitment that league is on the opposite end of the spectrum. They had two-weeks of two-a-day practices at the end of the summer, three practices a week after that, and games on Saturday. We opted for the lesser of two since Keegan’s only seven and I don’t want him to get burned out before he’s nine…call me crazy.

This year’s season started off much better than last year in that he was placed on the Cardinals team rather than the Eagles (As a New York Giants fan it’s just didn’t seem right cheering for the Eagles). However when I went to the pre-season parent’s meeting to pick up Keegan’s uniform, roster and schedule I couldn’t help but notice that his team was going to be coached by TBD…
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Toni, Jayden, Keegan and I took a trip last Saturday to Sacramento to watch the Griz football team take on Sacramento State (Nolan stayed home and had a fun day with Grandma Marji).

The day started early with Keegan wondering into our bedroom at 5:00am reminding us that we need to get ready to go…After a couple hours of fairly regular reminders from Keegan that we were going to the Griz game I finally rolled out of bed and got the crew going.

We left the house around 9:30am, made a stop at Starbucks, and were on the road arriving in Sacramento around 11:30am. Not a bad drive all things considered. We stopped by Outback to see if they were open, but they weren’t. We went to Plan B and had a quick lunch at Chevy’s instead. It was a tad early for Mexican food, but we toughed it out and went over to the stadium.
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