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As my daughters are older than my sons, I have not been involved in youth football, primarily because she who must be obeyed forbade it.

Nonetheless, after numerous complaints about soccer, yellow cards for roughness, she finally yielded and he was allowed to play football for our local youth league. He is 12, only 104 pounds, unlike the 9 year old 170 pounder who by virtue of age is on the same team.

As luck would have it, he ended up on a polynesian team, which even sports its own website. Las Vegas Island Warriors. Not a great site, but a nice program. They field teams from youth, tiny guys, to stars, a little bigger, juniors, my guy, seniors, somewhat bigger, elite, beginning of high school and freshmen, high school.

Yesterday all but the tiny guys won.

Our junior team won 41 to 0.

What completely surprised me is how fun youth football can be. We have 50 plays, with running formations to traditional pass plays and trick plays. The kids do a good job firing off the ball. Many by this age have played Six Years.

The coaches do a great job emphasizing teamwork and teaching fundamentals.

My son quickly observed, "Practice is harder than the game."

Any how, there are some Polies who will make some noise at the high school level and perhaps one or two, beyond. Some of these kids have moves.

It is more fun than I would have imagined. Thanks for the indulgence. For anybody not in possession of boys, adopt some. Girls are great, but you can only enjoy girlie things so much. Mom is with girls in Disneyland competing in a singing competition. I get roped into that later next month. I can hardly wait.