Friday Night Lights

[grunewar]

GV game Friday…..two large, rival schools. JV officials come in the locker room after their game. We ask how much time is on the clock, they say 20:00. Five minutes later we go out. R looks at the clock – 20:00!

DJ (yes, DJ) comes out and says he is having “technical difficulties.” We take the court a few minutes later. Go through the meetings – R tries to be humorous with the girls – yuck.

We line up for the National Anthem…..and the student singing live forgets the words. I looked at her and picked it up and the entire crowd now sings the final few stanzas.

Lights go down, players are announced with strobes and such….and then, the lights won’t heat up again and go on. Game delayed until the gym gets bright enough! I'm U1, V coach knows what’s coming and asks me if we can start as this may help his team……Funny!

Game starts. A scores (2-0). B inbounds and A steals (4-0). B inbounds and throws it away. A scores (6-0) with 6:45 to go in first period. B now gets the ball over the Division Line and B Guard puts the ball on her hip and stands there. A is not challenging her. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick…..for about 30 seconds, and THEY’RE down 6-0.

B worked a very deliberate half-court offense all night. A eventually doubled B’s score. Several nasty collisions and minor injuries. One collision was two players from the same team.

And so my Friday night went.

Sad to say, I was thinking (WWMPD? Did he write this script?).