It's an opportunity to give back. They're going to do it anyway, so why not do a dress rehearsal with a live audience and generate some money too. It's two separate entities, but it's the arts. It's nice that one can help the other. |
Most of the guys are football players. Through the years, some weren't, but it kind of came from our football program. We have always tried to lift correctly all year round. |
My wife woke up and said 'holy smoke' -- and she wasn't kidding. |
No one thought, most people were thinking we'd finish about .500. To lose two guys like that, and we got off to a slow start, but we had 11 seniors on the team, the kids never gave up. |
Put (your partner) to work right away, even if it doesn't matter. If you're in there with your hands dirty, conversation comes a lot more easily. It removes a lot of the pressure. |
Since my knees wore out, I quit officiating. |
That was huge. These guys knew they could skate with any team out there, and to get that one right back, it kept us in the game, kept everybody up. |
They came over here and played hard and whipped us. They wanted it a lot more than we did. |
Those were great years, even when we took second. |
We didn't come over to make a statement, we came over here to win a football game. We came over here thinking we could win. |
We have been managing the racecourse now for nearly a year and I am delighted that following extensive work between Arena and DMBC we have finalised this planning application. |
We have talked about having a double-team package just in case we feel like we need it. It's hard to do that, but we will have a package for that. |
We knew Wayne County was quick on defense. They certainly won the turnover ratio. We missed two field goals early and that took some points away from us. We turned it over and our defense just got wore down. |
We were fortunate to come out on top; it could have gone either way. It is tough to come to Meridian and win. I just have to commend our kids, especially for their second-half effort. |
We've had good senior leadership. They've kept everybody positive and ready to work at the next practice to get better. The guys never quit. And they have learned how to play without a superstar. That took six, seven, eight games to get used to. |