Little Savage Pride

Ammon played football this fall for the 2nd year. He plays in the Little Savage football league, which includes 5th and 6th grade boys. There were two teams again this year, and he was assigned to the orange team. Last year he was on the black team, and there was only one other boy who was on his team this year that was also on his team last year. So this year, he was basically competing against his previous teammates! He liked his team, and he liked his coaches, too. He was just so happy to be able to play football again!!! He loves this sport!

He started out the season as a Receiver and a Defensive End. The season was 7 weeks long. Practices were every day for 1 and a half hours, except for the days that they had games. During their season, they played 8 games: 6 against each other, and 2 against a team from Anaconda, Montana. A few weeks into the season, the coach changed Ammon's positions to Linebacker and Fullback. Ammon  loved playing the Linebacker position because he liked tackling players and sacking the quarterback, and he was great at it, too!!!

His team only won one game this year, but they were great ball players, and it was so fun to sit in the bleachers and watch them play their hearts out! I was so proud of him for all of his great sportsmanship and for the way he handled the ball and tackled the players!  

The only two times that I didn't enjoy watching them play was when we played against the Anaconda teams. They play unfairly, their coach is rude, their players are disrespectful, and they took the fun right out of the game. I was so disgusted; I even got into a heated argument with one of the players and his mothers at one of the games...

During Ammon's football games, the younger boys would run around and play with their friends, Josh would usually help on the sidelines, and I would sit in the stands and cheer for the players and chat with the other moms. They were happy nights for all of us!!!

The second to the last game against the Salmon black team, our orange team finally won! It was so exciting for all of us! Josh even took our family out afterwards to celebrate the momentous occasion!

The last home game of the season was played under the lights, with an announcer calling the plays over the loudspeaker, and the scoreboard was all lit up. It was homecoming week, too, and the little savages were all pumped up!!! Unfortunately, that was one very long and cold and rainy night! We all came home frozen!!!

Ammon's last football game of this season was played against the poor-sport Anaconda team. The other team played dirty, but our boys stayed strong and scored two touchdowns. Despite the other teams rude antics and giant sizes and higher score, our boys came out the true winners of the game with smiles on their faces!

Congratulations Ammon on an awesome season! We are so proud of you and your team! We look forward to next year's team when all the 7th graders will be playing together instead of against each other!