St. Mary's Pigskin Football

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reelsdeals

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Fitting day was a nightmare. Told to show up at 12 and Mickey, who was there out of the goodness of his heart, didn't show up until after 12:15. Most of us showed up closer to 11:30, not knowing how disorganized everything was. My son, who is the smallest one on the 1/2 Raiders, was luckily about middle of the pack, so we were finished by 2:30. I guess that should have been just a sign of things to come for us. I'm looking forward to the new league next year. There will be much better leadership and much more organization involved. There are alot of good people in this league, but a few bad apples will ruin the whole bushel.
Our team has wonderful coaches. Chris and Rachael are top notch people that do whatever they can for these kids to make the games and the experience great for them. That is why we still have all of our kids, not some of them. We haven't lost any kids at all this year. That is amazing and that speaks for the caliber of people we have coaching our kids. Our assistant coaches are also great people as well. They give their time unselfishly every week to this team, and our continuity shows, every week when all of us parents form that tunnel and our kids, both the football players and the cheerleaders run through them. My son looks forward to running through that tunnel after every game. Great season Raiders. Thanks again to the coaches, you guys are great!
 
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Msd_plumbing

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reelsdeals said:
Fitting day was a nightmare. Told to show up at 12 and Mickey, who was there out of the goodness of his heart, didn't show up until after 12:15. Most of us showed up closer to 11:30, not knowing how disorganized everything was. My son, who is the smallest one on the 1/2 Raiders, was luckily about middle of the pack, so we were finished by 2:30. I guess that should have been just a sign of things to come for us. I'm looking forward to the new league next year. There will be much better leadership and much more organization involved. There are alot of good people in this league, but a few bad apples will ruin the whole bushel.
Our team has wonderful coaches. Chris and Rachael are top notch people that do whatever they can for these kids to make the games and the experience great for them. That is why we still have all of our kids, not some of them. We haven't lost any kids at all this year. That is amazing and that speaks for the caliber of people we have coaching our kids. Our assistant coaches are also great people as well. They give their time unselfishly every week to this team, and our continuity shows, every week when all of us parents form that tunnel and our kids, both the football players and the cheerleaders run through them. My son looks forward to running through that tunnel after every game. Great season Raiders. Thanks again to the coaches, you guys are great!
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Your fitting day was on Central weigh-in am I correct? My husband (Mickey) had to get his team weighed-in also. Then he had to come and get me so I could write everything down. So yes he was late but he still had his team to get straight. Also we were the only ones there for a while, so he was fitting these kids by himself. Then you had other people comming up wanting there kids fitted and we only agreed to fit two 1/2 teams that day, but wound up having all these people comming up there demanding their children to be fitted. So it was stressfull that day. But nothing can beat those little guys comming over to me with their equipment on, and helping them take their helments off their little heads. That is why I do what I do.
 
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Msd_plumbing

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4hugger said:
Yes they are very cute...thanks so much for the nice words. :smile: A few of us had noticed that in our last couple of games...we actually still had a complete offense AND defensive team, which works well for us because the boys get a needed break every so often. Our coaches are REALLY there for the parents AND the players. They support us as well as the kids so in that respect its been a good experience.

As for the uniform fitting....Don did NOT do our uniform fitting...we were told to be at the location on a Sat afternoon and waited an hour before someone (not Don...not really sure who) showed up.....my sons helmet fit so badly that he had severe headaches for a week and then earaches....took him to Dr. thinking it was an infection....turned out the helmet was so tight it was pushing his jaw forward...no one would help me so I had it professionally altered in Waldorf and had custom made pads put in.
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This is the man that fitted your child for his equipment. First off like I said before I have my own team that I had to finish with before I could get there. Another thing is I said I would not be there until after 12. So you were not waiting an hour for me. Did you sign a release for the alterating of the helment.
 
RoseRed

RoseRed

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Msd_plumbing said:
Did you sign a release for the alterating of the helment.
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I looked it up and that is not a word...

The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary. Click on a spelling suggestion below or try again using the search box to the right.
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smilin

smilin

BOXER NATION
vraiblonde said:
This is becoming a surprisingly entertaining thread.

:popcorn:
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Sort of like a good debate or tennis match, point - counterpoint!
BTW. Apparently there is going to be an excellent match up of
Div III teams on Weds 6:30 at Dorsey park.
I've seen these teams play and they are well coached, hard hitting and play very well. If you haven't seen one of these games, this is the one you should not miss. It will also get rid of the stereotype that has formed about the lack of sportsmanship between arch rivals in this league.
 
Dougstermd

Dougstermd

ORGASM DONOR
RoseRed said:
I looked it up and that is not a word...
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NOW NOW with the semantics. The message was that there are a whole lot of volunteers who put in a sh!t load of hours making this league work. All we want in return is for the kids to take away a few memories and have fun doing it. Yeah it may have a few quirks but just stay tuned because the (((NEW))) league will have its hands full also.
 
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reelsdeals

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Like I said earlier, it was out of the goodness of your heart you were there fitting our children. Don was sending numerous people there to be fitted, stragglers that didn't make it for their team. It wasn't your fault and I never intended it to sound that way. My point was the lack of organization from the top. We were at central weigh-in for almost 3 hours and then had to go to Charlotte Hall and wait around another almost 3 hours, some parents waited around even longer. There are many good people in this league, many who volunteer numerous hours to make things happen. The Kemps aren't bad people, they have great intentions and want the best for our kids. Things that happen are often times viewed as favortism and that can't be denied. All the volunteers at fitting were coaches from teams that I've only seen at Dent, so I'm assuming they are Northern coaches. I could be wrong, I don't know for sure. It almost seems like the Southern teams are at a disatvantage because of their location. If they can't be there to scratch the Kemps backs, then they are looked down upon because of this. Everyone needs to be adults about the whole thing. There is been way too much name calling and bashing and all the immaturity going on in this league and that is the root of the problem. Many people have given some great ideas and comments that would make things better, but the leadership in the league thinks that none of them will work. Don't knock an idea until you've tried it. I've coached t-ball, little league baseball, pee-wee basketball and been assistant coaches on several AAU teams in the last 15 years in Tennessee, Florida and will be coaching in the new league next year. The things that make a league successful is the willingness to listen to constructive criticism, make necessary changes and to provide the best experience for the kids. We don't have that in this league. There isn't a climate for change and that is the problem.

Msd_plumbing said:
This is the man that fitted your child for his equipment. First off like I said before I have my own team that I had to finish with before I could get there. Another thing is I said I would not be there until after 12. So you were not waiting an hour for me. Did you sign a release for the alterating of the helment.
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Msd_plumbing

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reelsdeals said:
Like I said earlier, it was out of the goodness of your heart you were there fitting our children. Don was sending numerous people there to be fitted, stragglers that didn't make it for their team. It wasn't your fault and I never intended it to sound that way. My point was the lack of organization from the top. We were at central weigh-in for almost 3 hours and then had to go to Charlotte Hall and wait around another almost 3 hours, some parents waited around even longer. There are many good people in this league, many who volunteer numerous hours to make things happen. The Kemps aren't bad people, they have great intentions and want the best for our kids. Things that happen are often times viewed as favortism and that can't be denied. All the volunteers at fitting were coaches from teams that I've only seen at Dent, so I'm assuming they are Northern coaches. I could be wrong, I don't know for sure. It almost seems like the Southern teams are at a disatvantage because of their location. If they can't be there to scratch the Kemps backs, then they are looked down upon because of this. Everyone needs to be adults about the whole thing. There is been way too much name calling and bashing and all the immaturity going on in this league and that is the root of the problem. Many people have given some great ideas and comments that would make things better, but the leadership in the league thinks that none of them will work. Don't knock an idea until you've tried it. I've coached t-ball, little league baseball, pee-wee basketball and been assistant coaches on several AAU teams in the last 15 years in Tennessee, Florida and will be coaching in the new league next year. The things that make a league successful is the willingness to listen to constructive criticism, make necessary changes and to provide the best experience for the kids. We don't have that in this league. There isn't a climate for change and that is the problem.
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Yes I know that you did not mean it in a bad way. My husband has been doing this for 9 yrs, and our son is 2 yrs old. So he does this for the children. He was going to take off this year, but came back because of one of our returning players.

I don't know about central weigh-in, I didn't go this year, because I knew that we would be at the equipment room for a long time afterwards, and I didn't want my son to be out at weigh-in and then have to sit up at the equipment room for 8 hrs.
 
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momoftwo

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Missing Coach

What happened to that guy that coached in the central last year? He used to coach in the south but moved to the central and he coached div 3 Dolphins last year. He was an awesome coach, I was looking forward to him coaching my son in the future. It is ashame that the league loses a dedicated person like that....
 
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Tigerlily

Luvin Life !!!
I noticed that at the ganes at Willow's on Sat. There was a police officer in a cruiser at the end of the field. Is this new since what transpired last week?
 
Otter

Otter

Nothing to see here
Tigerlily said:
I noticed that at the ganes at Willow's on Sat. There was a police officer in a cruiser at the end of the field. Is this new since what transpired last week?
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They had reports of Nomo panhandling.
 
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Msd_plumbing

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Tigerlily said:
I noticed that at the ganes at Willow's on Sat. There was a police officer in a cruiser at the end of the field. Is this new since what transpired last week?
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There were police at all 3 fields on Sat. they were hired by Pigskin Football, to be there.
 
smilin

smilin

BOXER NATION
"They had reports of 'Nomo' panhandling."

I thought you were 'Nomo'. So who's 'Nomo'? A cousin of 'Gimmeemo'? Or Nemo?
Oh I get it. You're Weirdo not Nomo - sorry for the mix up.
 
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Otter

Otter

Nothing to see here
smilin said:
"They had reports of 'Nomo' panhandling."

I thought you were 'Nomo'. So who's 'Nomo'? A cousin of 'Gimmeemo'? Or Nemo?
Oh I get it. You're Weirdo not Nomo - sorry for the mix up.
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Its quite alright. :angel:
 
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