Reid's Third Game

So yesterday was Reid's third football game. The great news is that Reid started as defensive end. The kid that he replaced at defensive end starts on offense as tight end, and he and Reid have been good friends for a couple of years, so hopefully there aren't any hard feelings there. And that kid ended up getting to play a good bit due to an error on Reid's part:

At some point either late in the third quarter, or early in the fourth, our team fumbled the ball and it was recovered by our opponents. Reid apparently didn't notice the switch out of sides and missed playing in the first play of that switch. He barely got out onto the field in time for the second play. After that, he didn't get to play anymore. He would go out with the defense, but the coach always sent the other kid in to replace him. I didn't disagree with the coach's decision at all. I was sitting in the stands watching as Reid was not paying attention to going into the game and it just about killed me to watch. I think I'm too pregnant and emotional to be able to shake even little things off right now.

And I figured that when I picked Reid up at the school after the game, that he would be upset, but he apparently didn't think he did anything too bad. And he said the coach only said, "Know when you're supposed to be on the field." Hopefully he'll still get to start next week, but we'll just wait and see.

And we lost in overtime again. We went to overtime at 0-0. Too bad, too. But we turned the ball over a few too many times and are really lucky that the other team didn't score during the main game, so it turned out better than it could have.

And I'll definitely keep you posted on Reid's play time next week.