published by Jonathan on Sun, 03/04/2012 - 15:39
Saturday morning Elliot participated in Midland Public Schools’ paddleton tournament along with ~ 60 (?) other 5th grade boys. Paddleton is like badminton except you use a wooden paddle instead of a stringed racquet. A bunch of his friends from Carpenter Street school participated too, and they all did well…representing four out of the top six and three out of the top four (including the champion and runner-up). Elliot defeated his friend (and basketball teammate) Kyle to win the tournament.
Here is some video from several of his matches leading up to the championship (and some video of his pals playing too):
Here is video of the championship match:
Here are some photos (the last one is Elliot and Finn posing with their gym teacher Mr. Welter):








published by Jonathan on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 15:51
Here are Elliot’s and Finn’s football photos from 2011. My previous collection of mine is here: link.



published by Jonathan on Sat, 10/15/2011 - 15:55
For the second game in a row, the Knights faced a team with whom they were evenly matched. Unfortunately, it didn't work out as well as the first time. After giving up several turnovers and losing their starting QB to injury near the end of the first half, they lost 22 to 2 (dropping their record to 1 win and 4 losses). Early in the game, Elliot had a nice end-around run that went for a first down. After the Knight's QB was injured, Elliot played the rest of the game at QB and linebacker (instead of the usual receiver and linebacker). He completed two passes (one of which came agonizingly close to a TD on the last play of the first half), but he had a rough time overall (since the Knights had a hard time getting a running game going or stopping the pass rush). Considering he hadn't played any QB since pre-season practice and none in the shotgun formation that they're running now, I thought he did a good job. On one play when they were backed up to their goal line, he called a hard count and drew an off-sides penalty on the defense to get five extra yards of cushion. I was impressed that he thought to call that play in that situation.
Finn's team lost too…28 to 21. His TD streak ended at six games. He only carried the ball twice, so his opportunities were limited.
published by Jonathan on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 21:45
A couple weeks back we drove down to Indianapolis to go to a football game with the Somasi family. This is the fourth year we've gone to a game (Browns in 2008, Vikings in 2009, and Panthers in 2010).
We started the day at the Children's Museum and then went to the Sunday night game at Lucas Oil stadium. When we bought the tickets, we were looking forward to seeing both the Steelers and Peyton Manning. Unfortunately, only one of those two worked out. It was lucky for the Steelers because I think they would have had their butts whooped if the Colts had a decent QB behind center. I was quite glad we were inside for the game because it was cold and rainy outside.
Here are a few photos:









published by Jonathan on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 23:08
Finn is playing flag football on the Chargers. After finishing last season with a 2-TD game (link), he started this season with the same. He's now got streak going of six straight games with a TD run (not counting the recent game in which he played only defense).
Here are a couple of videos and photos. The first video is the one that features the Finnster.



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