A little bragging

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Congrats to both of you on a job well done.

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Good story Chuck. My boy Joe, age 4, played in his very first soccer match last Saturday (Aug 26 2006). Within 5 minutes, he got clobbered, came out of the game hurt, crying. I gave him some water and he sat there for a few minutes, sucked it up, went back into the game and scored 2 goals. One was a solo breakaway down the field. Not bad for a rookie. I was a proud parent too. Chris

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Congratulations Chuck from one "old timer" to another. Tom.

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Chris, Sounds like your son has been bitten. He's hooked now and there's no turning back. My daughter has spent so much time with athletic trainers and physical therapists over the years that her major at LMU is Athletic Training. So, in a way, sports have changed her life forever. Chuck "Chris Ringer" wrote in message news:6b3a1f7d.1@WebX.WawyahGHajS... > Good story Chuck. > > My boy Joe, age 4, played in his very first soccer match last Saturday > (Aug 26 2006). Within 5 minutes, he got clobbered, came out of the game > hurt, crying. I gave him some water and he sat there for a few minutes, > sucked it up, went back into the game and scored 2 goals. One was a solo > breakaway down the field. Not bad for a rookie. I was a proud parent too. > > Chris

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Chuck Ackerman wrote: > Chris, > > Sounds like your son has been bitten. He's hooked now and there's no > turning back. > > My daughter has spent so much time with athletic trainers and physical > therapists over the years that her major at LMU is Athletic Training. So, > in a way, sports have changed her life forever. > > Chuck > > > "Chris Ringer" wrote in message > news:6b3a1f7d.1@WebX.WawyahGHajS... >> Good story Chuck. >> >> My boy Joe, age 4, played in his very first soccer match last Saturday >> (Aug 26 2006). Within 5 minutes, he got clobbered, came out of the game >> hurt, crying. I gave him some water and he sat there for a few minutes, >> sucked it up, went back into the game and scored 2 goals. One was a solo >> breakaway down the field. Not bad for a rookie. I was a proud parent too. >> >> Chris > > My oldest (a junior at Anderson University in Indiana) had a similar experience. Tore the same ACL 3 times in 3 years. Has had a total of 5 knee operations, the last one was to break his leg and straighten it so he wouldn't have repeated cartilage and miniscus problems. If it weren't for that, he'd be playing basketball at Anderson, but his collegiate playing days are over. Anyway, after the first ACL tear when he was 16, he announced he wanted to be a physical therapist and "help other people get back out there after they've been hurt". After he's finished with Athletic Training at Anderson, he's planning on attending the University of Indianapolis for Physical Therapy. -- Jeff Crosby Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc. P.O. Box 13369 Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369 260-422-7531 The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my company. Unless I say so.

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Well I guess being an old old timer my kids are too big to brag about. My elder one is 17 and stands 6'7" and likes to work out. He is more into drawing and playing guitar than contact sports. A couple of years ago he was forced by his school to participate in football to take advantage of his build (he was 6'5" then). One day as I dropped in the school to watch him play, I saw to my horror his reaction to tacke. He lifted the poor kid off the ground and slammed him. I immediately took him off and said, "Son you are too big and can not afford violence, this game is not for you, try basket ball". He failed in basketball too and went back to arts, "I told you had, I hate sports". The little one, 5'7" at the age of 10 (growing faster than his brother) has a playstation as his sport. He excercises by playing while standing and jumps up and down as the game goes. He likes doing math more than football. He goes to grade 7 for maths, grade 6 for other sciences and his usual grade 5 for English and arts. So maybe there is some hope from him after all

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Hassan, Great stories about your kids. I understand about your eldest. My oldest daughter was not the competitive one either. She played rec basketball and softball in middle school but when asked if she was going to try out for basketball in high school her response was, "well, I do like basketball and I'd play if they didn't keep score." She ended up at San Francisco State and graduated with a degree in education. Like your son she has take up the guitar. I gotta tell you that her years at SF State has turned her into a flaming liberal. At her graduation last spring I wasn't ready for such a political attack on a standing administration from speakers. She's now a grad student at UC Santa Barbara. Talk about a change in culture! Santa Barbara is a conservative rich town. Complete opposite from her days at SFSU. She's going through withdrawals. chuck Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. "Hassan Farooqi" wrote in message news:6b3a1f7d.5@WebX.WawyahGHajS... > Well I guess being an old old timer my kids are too big to brag about. My > elder one is 17 and stands 6'7" and likes to work out. He is more into > drawing and playing guitar than contact sports. A couple of years ago he > was forced by his school to participate in football to take advantage of > his build (he was 6'5" then). One day as I dropped in the school to watch > him play, I saw to my horror his reaction to tacke. He lifted the poor kid > off the ground and slammed him. I immediately took him off and said, "Son > you are too big and can not afford violence, this game is not for you, try > basket ball". He failed in basketball too and went back to arts, "I told > you had, I hate sports". > > The little one, 5'7" at the age of 10 (growing faster than his brother) > has a playstation as his sport. He excercises by playing while standing > and jumps up and down as the game goes. He likes doing math more than > football. He goes to grade 7 for maths, grade 6 for other sciences and his > usual grade 5 for English and arts. So maybe there is some hope from him > after all

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OK, I have to brag to. My son decided at eleven years old that he wants to learn to play golf. Most of his buddies play with their dad's and live at the local country club. I fish. I work to fish. I can eat if I fish. So, you can imagine my disgust when he makes this "declaration" to me. OK, so we purchase (luckily for us Wal-Mart clearances all prior year golf stuff in February)a very nice set of Dunlop clubs for 69.00! Not Bad, 3 drivers (graphite shafts), set of 9 irons, Pw and a putter, and BAG! Good deal. My wife INSISTS that I get a set to. ok, so I did, reluctantly. (Trust me, I had my eye on a new ALLSTAR rod, but NOOOOOO.) We get home, he gets the set out in our back yard, and starts swinging like he has been at this his whole life. NO KIDDING. I send him with a friend who is a golf nut and when they return I am told that I have a "natural" on my hands. Long story short. Two years later, he is listed as a "scratch" golfer. That means he plays every hole par or better. He has "upgraded" to Callaway Big BERTHA drivers, Callaway Heavenwood range clubs, graphite shaft Big BERTHA irons, and a Callaway bag (like Phil has, of course). SO, I GET TO SPEND NOTHING, NOTHING AT ALL on fishing AND my fishing trips have "dried up". Oh well, I was told by the University of Alabama golf coach(he attended a 5 day clinic this summer at UofA) that "I could use him today!". Wish I could have gotten that in writing! And he is # 5 academically in a class of 275 eighth graders. His 14th brithday is 9-25 and he wants to have a party at the golf course. OK. My golf game, you ask? Let's just say, I am better at sinking plastic worms than sinking 40 yard putts!

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Well my son IS a member of Liberal Party of Canada and participated in the election campaign of Mr. Wajid Khan, the Liberal candidate from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Wajid Khan won but then my son was not there to reap the fruits and went to Ottawa to stay with my sister whose family is Conservative (although this time they did not vote as they did not like the new Tory chief Stephen Harper).

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I've always heard that some of the best fishing holes are on the golf course.........I am sure the folks at the Birmingham or Mountain Brook Country clubs would not mind if you dropped a line in one of their ponds! JOe