Our first football game experience

N's new passion is football. It still takes second-fiddle to hockey but he loves to tackle, grunt and high-five his football teammates so. His first ever game was last Sunday. Three hours later, a sun-burn down one of my arms and a loss of the ability to even care about the game out come we were done.

Nobody told me 11-year-old kids football games could take THREE hours to play.

The refs were out of control. Every flag came with a five-minute ref huddle. I lost count of the flags thrown on the field after 25.

I have to admit I even lost control towards the game's end.

I am not proud but with about three minutes left in the fourth quarter I yelled out: "Put a fork in it we are done."