First, allow me to wish each and every one of you a joyful Christmas and holiday season! Be safe and make the effort to treasure people more than things in your lives.
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My lasting impression of FSN's coverage of the UIL Class 5A Division 2 Championship on Saturday night? Let me sum it up this way:
Dear Ahmad Brooks...we have a word in the English language for a 'two-peat': REPEAT.
PS--try not to gush too much over your boys winning the state championship. Fox Sports Southwest did hire you for a statewide broadcast. Seeing your grinning mug on the Abilene sideline just a few feet from the head coach as the seconds ticked off probably wasn't the lasting image they wanted their viewers to see.
You've got from now till December 18, 2010 to celebrate. You should've kept your journalistic demeanor and composure about 30 minutes longer.
Seriously, he said, 'two-peat' in attempting to ask Ronnell Sims about the prospects of returning to San Antonio (or wherever) next season, as if he's not scared to pay Pat Riley for copyright infringement.
By the way, Ahmad Brooks went to the University of Texas, whose football team is on the verge of trying to one-peat a national championship in football.
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On the fields this past Saturday, there were several actual participants who left some lasting impressions too.
For me, Abilene's Herschel Sims' 60-yard TD run in the fourth quarter against Katy will always stick with me. Although outgained by his cousin Ronnell in the game, I thought Herschel's jaunt that iced the game for the Eagles was a thing of beauty. First he showed speed to get into the secondary and then, more impressively, he made three Tiger defenders miss him altogether.
A couple of weekends ago, I talked ad nauseum on the air about Brandon Carter of Euless Trinity. The guy was a one-man wrecking crew against Stony Point in the semifinal, and his TD catch in OT of the 5A Division 1 Championship in OT against Austin Westlake will be a lasting legacy that will be hard for him to top, no matter how long he continues to play the game. Of course, there ARE those among us who don't believe it was a catch at all...and that should only enhance the legend in the years ahead.
In the Class 4A Division 2 Championship, Aledo sophomore Jonathan Gray burst onto the statewide stage with 252 rushing yards and four TDs in Aledo's win over Brenham. During the game, the Metroplex-based broadcast team gushed so much over Gray, I had to check to make sure I wasn't watching Trey Williams of Dekaney. Still, it was an impressive performance in a huge game.
In Class 3A, the McCoy family failed in the first leg of the high school state championship/college national championship couplet. Graham lost to Carthage in a close game, 13-12. Perhaps that bodes well for the Crimson Tide of Alabama on January 7. (Some of you have mentioned that you think I'm obsessed with the Longhorns losing. Let me dispel that notion...oh wait, no, I DO want them to lose. All true Aggies will be shouting, 'Roll Tide!' that night.)
Actually, THE big game is in Shreveport this year on Monday afternoon. (Which reminds me, I will have to recount my experience at the 1981 Independence Bowl in the days ahead. Preview: I was 20 years old and had more money than brains at the time! But the Ags won that icy evening over Oklahoma State, 33-16.)
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Again, Merry Christmas, everyone, and remember what the season is all about!
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