For the football team communications, we use an app called BAND that allows us to post messages for all players and parents to read.
Tonight, we are having a Spirit Night where everyone goes to eat at a restaurant (Dirty Buffalo) and they give us a portion of the profits.
In order to sufficiently engage people, I posted the following message there this morning:
TONIGHT, WE FEAST!!!
In 2018, a young 127-pound woman named Molly Schuyler ate 501 chicken wings in 30 minutes at the famed Philadelphia Wing Bowl setting a world record. Congratulations to her.
Now, I'm not advocating for anyone in the Grizzly family to try this tonight at Dirty Buffalo between 4:00 - 9:00 p.m., but I find myself wondering, "Do we want to live in a world where we don't teach our children to reach for the stars? A world where we settle for second-best?". I think not.
As adults, we a duty-bound not only to push the next generation into being the best that they can be, but also we must lead the way ourselves.
Certainly, none of us are ready to face such a monumental task as eating 500 wings, but they say that a journey of 1,000 miles begins with just one step. Tonight, ladies, gentlemen, and children, I say that WE TAKE THAT STEP.
Would eating 10 wings, a side of fries, and a cold ice tea be a pleasing meal tonight for Spirit Night? Sure it would.
But think of the exhilaration and euphoria that you could create by eating 50 wings! Think of the pride on your child's face as you polish off what seemed to be an insurmountable pile of flats and drumsticks. It will be a moment that lives on within your family through the ages, passed down from father to son, mother to daughter, sibling to sibling. Each telling becoming a bigger and bigger story!
Tonight, we battle Dirty Buffalo and we win when the manager lowers his head, shuffles his way into the middle of the main floor, and dejectedly announces, "I am sorry, we are out of food."
Also, there's basketball games on and other food options for non-wing eaters.
Let's have a good time.
I also included this photo
Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday? - Joy Behar
Since we're going off about adults ruining school functions, let me tell you a story about some football parents.
First and foremost, know that it has been a tumultuous season with a lot of tension between the coaches and the administration and well as between the coaches and the parents. End result will likely be us being fired at the end of the year.
Most of it really came to a head last week on our BAND app (used for team communication).
Our JV team was having some discpline and grade problems so the JV head coach did not pass out jerseys to them after practice on Wednesday which they would then have worn in school on Thursday, their game day. During the JV game the next night, a parent (dad) posted on BAND asking why the jersey numbers did not match what they wore the game before and also wanted to know why the players didn't get to wear the jerseys in school.
A mom replied that they were wearing alternate jerseys and that we don't have the same set of numbers for those so not everyone was going to match up. Problem solved.
Dad one replied "thanks" but again pressed on about not wearing the jerseys during school.
Dad two chimed in that he was told that the players "had not earned" wearing the jerseys this week which was pretty much true. I'm not sure exactly how the JV coach would have phrased it.
The JV team lost 20-14 in ot to a team that they should have beaten.
Two players from the JV team replied after the game that the coaches were right. "We didn't deserve to wear them because we play as individuals and not as a team and we need to get it together. Look at how we played tonight."
A third player (who has mystery injuries every week) replied that it was his opinion that they DID deserve the jerseys because we "work our butts off" (they do not).
A parent replied "LMAO".
A varsity player replied, "What's so funny? Y'all lost tonight and you're out here laughing. Ain't nothing funny."
LMAO parent, who we later found out was drunk posting, then added that he felt that since the players cannot wear jerseys, then the coaches should wear dresses for being bitches.
The head coach then removed the setting allowing for people to post.
Go Bucks!
Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday? - Joy Behar
Since we're going off about adults ruining school functions, let me tell you a story about some football parents.
First and foremost, know that it has been a tumultuous season with a lot of tension between the coaches and the administration and well as between the coaches and the parents. End result will likely be us being fired at the end of the year.
Most of it really came to a head last week on our BAND app (used for team communication).
Our JV team was having some discpline and grade problems so the JV head coach did not pass out jerseys to them after practice on Wednesday which they would then have worn in school on Thursday, their game day. During the JV game the next night, a parent (dad) posted on BAND asking why the jersey numbers did not match what they wore the game before and also wanted to know why the players didn't get to wear the jerseys in school.
A mom replied that they were wearing alternate jerseys and that we don't have the same set of numbers for those so not everyone was going to match up. Problem solved.
Dad one replied "thanks" but again pressed on about not wearing the jerseys during school.
Dad two chimed in that he was told that the players "had not earned" wearing the jerseys this week which was pretty much true. I'm not sure exactly how the JV coach would have phrased it.
The JV team lost 20-14 in ot to a team that they should have beaten.
Two players from the JV team replied after the game that the coaches were right. "We didn't deserve to wear them because we play as individuals and not as a team and we need to get it together. Look at how we played tonight."
A third player (who has mystery injuries every week) replied that it was his opinion that they DID deserve the jerseys because we "work our butts off" (they do not).
A parent replied "LMAO".
A varsity player replied, "What's so funny? Y'all lost tonight and you're out here laughing. Ain't nothing funny."
LMAO parent, who we later found out was drunk posting, then added that he felt that since the players cannot wear jerseys, then the coaches should wear dresses for being bitches.
The head coach then removed the setting allowing for people to post.
Go Bucks!
Sorry that you are having a rough season but that dresses because you are bitches like made me laugh out loud
Since we're going off about adults ruining school functions, let me tell you a story about some football parents.
First and foremost, know that it has been a tumultuous season with a lot of tension between the coaches and the administration and well as between the coaches and the parents. End result will likely be us being fired at the end of the year.
Most of it really came to a head last week on our BAND app (used for team communication).
Our JV team was having some discpline and grade problems so the JV head coach did not pass out jerseys to them after practice on Wednesday which they would then have worn in school on Thursday, their game day. During the JV game the next night, a parent (dad) posted on BAND asking why the jersey numbers did not match what they wore the game before and also wanted to know why the players didn't get to wear the jerseys in school.
A mom replied that they were wearing alternate jerseys and that we don't have the same set of numbers for those so not everyone was going to match up. Problem solved.
Dad one replied "thanks" but again pressed on about not wearing the jerseys during school.
Dad two chimed in that he was told that the players "had not earned" wearing the jerseys this week which was pretty much true. I'm not sure exactly how the JV coach would have phrased it.
The JV team lost 20-14 in ot to a team that they should have beaten.
Two players from the JV team replied after the game that the coaches were right. "We didn't deserve to wear them because we play as individuals and not as a team and we need to get it together. Look at how we played tonight."
A third player (who has mystery injuries every week) replied that it was his opinion that they DID deserve the jerseys because we "work our butts off" (they do not).
A parent replied "LMAO".
A varsity player replied, "What's so funny? Y'all lost tonight and you're out here laughing. Ain't nothing funny."
LMAO parent, who we later found out was drunk posting, then added that he felt that since the players cannot wear jerseys, then the coaches should wear dresses for being bitches.
The head coach then removed the setting allowing for people to post.
Go Bucks!
Sorry that you are having a rough season but that dresses because you are bitches like made me laugh out loud
same, that got me, and as Kite said, I can't imagine having parents and coaches and players all posting, when my SILs were playing high school volleyball, there was a group thing for parents, mainly for planning team meals and if someone needed a ride sort of thing, and my MIL (who only ever posted to volunteer/work out her team meal night(s)) was always sharing new drama and BS in there
It appears they do, do varsity and JV (and all attached coaches/parents) all use the same app together/can see what they all post?
