IR 25 GB 20 . . . Lauren on TV

By Chris
Last night was the first home football game. We all went, along with Nick's friend Jonah. After every Indian River touchdown, the cheerleaders throw little Indian River footballs into the crowd. Nick, Jonah and Ben all got one. Seems they have an "in" with one of the cheerleaders. IR won by 5 in a really good game. We saw Lauren's friend Christa in the Great Bridge band, which was huge and excellent. It looked like a college-sized band. It cracked Teresa and me up that they even had a little John Deer tractor to pull out some of their equipment. In our day, Great Bridge was a huge rival of IR, and we always joked about how "country" they were. I'm sure they called us thugs, or something similar. The boys pigged out on nachos, candy, soda and chicken sandwiches. The game was on TV (Channel 48 on Chesapeake Cox Cable). We watched some of the replay, and Lauren was front and center, doing the "rowser" dance after a touchdown. Teresa was so excited, she was bouncing! Her baby girl on TV cheering! It would be like me seeing one of the boys playing basketball on tv, I guess. Yeee Haaaaahhh. If you have Chesapeake cable, check out the game replay at 10 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday . . . Lauren is high-profile within the first 5 minutes. Lauren hated it when they did the cheerleader intros during one timeout. They called out each of their names . . . at which point they did a solo jump \ move thing. We enjoyed it. Yeah, she's big-time now ;)

We got to see all of our ads in the program. Nick purchased one with his own money that simply says "Tricky Nicky." That's what "Commandar Van" has always called him, and he loves it.