A great day for football

I officially give up on this batch of Giants (particularly the coach). But yesterday was not a complete waste for football. I taught my teens the hook and ladder.

I remember when I was much younger, Kyle Townsend and I would take on our dads every year in a game of touch football. We were always psyched to try and beat them. They had been playing together for years, but we wanted to prove we could rival their connection. Each year as we got bigger and faster, our dads would dig deeper into their bag of tricks to beat us. The flea flicker, the halfback pass, the double pass; they pulled them all. But I will always remember the first time they pulled the hook and ladder. We were dumbfounded, and we were toast.

Yesterday was my turn to pass on some backyard wisdom. Even as the play was being executed for a length of the field touchdown, players on both teams were going nuts. For my money, it doesn’t get any better than that.