Tough Guys

"And if my child played on a team like that, he wouldn't. I mean, as hard as it would be to tell him, 'Sweetie, you're not playing this year,' there's no way, because I don't talk to my child that way and you're not allowed to talk to him like that either. I mean, it's supposed to be fun. All you want is for the kids to come back and play next year. Because all it takes is one bad one and scary one like that and you've ruined a child. Our kids talked about that game for days after that because they've never seen anything like that.

In the final game of the regular season, the Trojans defeated the Wildcats 34-6. At press time, the Trojans were slated to play the Mustangs, the No. 1 seed in the Blue Division in the first round of the playoffs. Whether they win or not doesn't seem to really matter, as long as there's plenty of ice cream at the concession stand.