Roc's Football Season 2012 (Mighty Mites)

For those of you who have trouble picking out Roc, he is #66 on the green and black team and he is the only player with yellow sleeves.  We had to buy him something to make it so Stacie could pick him out during the game!

 

Notice Roc is looking at the refs feet to make sure he in the right position rather than watching the other team.

Roc making the tackle!

Roc chasing the quarterback out of the pocket.

Roc was closing in on the quarter back forcing him to throw the ball (you will see the ball in the air if you look closely)

Roc and his teammates making a tackle.

 

For those of you that are not football enthusiasts I will explain why this is such a great photo.  If you look closely in the middle of the picture (just to the right of the ref) you will notice a kid in the blue being pushed by the green team, if you look closely you will notice that there are a second set of legs (you guessed it, that's Roc) pushing that other poor kid  down the field with the ball so far down the field that it is no longer in the camera's view.  Now in football you are supposed to block until the whistle blows and that is a picture perfect example of Roc and Big "E" making a great sustained block!

 

Roc's first year of tackle football.  Roc played offensive tackle and middle linebacker on defense.  It gave the family something to do every Saturday for several months.  When Roc was asked about his favorite moment he said "I really liked it when we played the White Eagles and I made all those tackles!"  Ryan's favorite moment takes a little explaining.  To help you understand Ryan's favorite moment you need to know that the only time an offensive lineman is not moving down field to block is when they knock someone on the ground.  As an offensive lineman when you knock someone down you stand over them and every time they try to get up you knock them over again.  Now to Ryan's favorite moment.  It was a sweep play to the left that went for 60 yards and a touchdown, the entire team slowly followed the runner to try and pick up more blocks and as the team dispersed it exposed Roc pushing a poor kid into the ground and he continued to push the kid in the ground until the whistle blew.  This year was a learning year with only 3 kids who had ever played tackle football before.  Each game everyone got better and better with the kids playing their best game at the end of the season with a 31-13 blowout at the end of the season jamboree!
Don't feel bad if you don't get what was explained, Ryan wrote it and after I read it it still seemed too technical to me.