Okay moms, be honest with yourselves: you want to like football, you really do.
You may already like a lot of the things that go with it – the picnics, parties, tailgating, music, pageantry, bowl game parades, and especially watching your sons on Friday nights.
Yes, you do like these things, but some of you don’t know much about the actual game of football. Not your fault, of course. Most of you didn’t get indoctrinated at an early age by fathers, brothers, male cousins, uncles or neighborhood boys. You were not asked to play the game and didn’t talk about it at school or on the playground. You didn’t collect football cards; get football uniforms for Christmas and so on.
A football mom is the one wakes up and gets her son to school, comes home from work, drives her son to practice, waits at practice, goes home and makes dinner, helps with homework and then…starts the whole process over again in the morning.
A football mom is the one who is scared to death of her son getting hurt.
A football mom is the one who bites her tongue when their son is disappointed about his playing time.
A football mom is patient about a game even when she’s not sure about all of the rules
A football mom is the one who sells food at the concession stand.
A football mom is the one who sells candy bars, magazines and even cleaning solutions at work so her son can be the highest seller.
A football mom is the one who washes all the dirty but especially smelly football gear – and it does get “big time smelly.”
This might be you in all or part but this was always my mom. Five boys, one daughter and easily over a thousand practices and hundreds of games.
This is dedicated to the moms who sacrifice so much for us, their sons.
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