Unreal at the Jets Game
So last night at the last minute we are asked to go to a Fargo/Moorhead Jets game?
We are thinking sure why not we have one child that had practice but he could come as soon as he was done. So we go thinking well this will be a great time we never get a chance to go to the UND, Minnesota Wild, or any others that we watch on the old boob tube.
Well we get there and we are waiting for the people that have the tickets. We run into a few people that we know and everyone is looking really pumped for the game. So we are getting more excited!!! This would only be the second game that I have gone to for the Jets and the first one I only got to see the first 15 minutes do to having to go to work.
So we finally spot are ticket holders and we go to find a seat. The game starts and the puck drops these boys or shall I say young men, were flying down that ice. Let me tell you there was some hard hitting that you see on the T.V. with those other teams but you can't hear the crunch.........well you could hear it there last night. OUCH!!!!!! Well just like my boys they take the hit and get back up and the game goes on.
Well first period is done, we go into the second and about 3 minutes into the period the crowd gets quiet. I was talking to one of the host families behind me and I turn my head and these boys have their helmets off and are duking it out on the ice. I'm sitting in my chair with total disbelief. I look down and I see all these boy scouts because.............they had been announcing boy scout night a couple of times. So I see these little boys seeing this stupid violence and are cheering it on!!! The worst part of it all was when the ref was skating them to the penalty box he was laughing with them.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR that just makes me angry. Is this what people really want to see is blood, punching and hurting intentionally just to get the team and fans motivated? Mind you my 7 year old was sitting right beside me and my husband to both smiling......... I was mad. I then told my son this was a good game until that fight broke out they were all skating hard for the puck and that is how the game is played. That is not ok with me.
Then it brings me back to what my cousin told me when he tried out for a junior team they said he was a great hockey player but did not start enough fights so he did not make the team. I would say the owners and coaches and USA hockey needs to take a better look at the game it is not boxing it is trying to put a round black hard thing into a netted goal. They cannot do this stuff in college or in any level before juniors so why the hell let them do it at that level.
I will never again attend another FM Jets game or support that kind of behavior. That is one thing I will say about girls hockey there is no checking and let me tell you those girls work very hard to get that puck they just don't lay someone out at center line to get the puck, they use the equipment that they purchase for the right reasons. Mind you it is not so much the checking that disturbs me it is this whole punching taking off the gloves. We try to teach the kids not to fight and then we use these kids to draw crowds in I was impressed by the skating not that. I say take a better look at it coaches, USA Hockey, and fans is this really worth cheering on?
Posted by: Dedicated Sports Mom on 1/21/2006 at 10:12 AM | Comments (20) | Permalink
Tis the Season I Guess
Well they normally say Tis the Season to be Jolly........and I just don't know if I am jolly. This will be my second christmas without my father and they say it is suppose to get easier. To me it feels like it gets harder everyday. I try to keep my spirits up for my children, but for some reason it is not working. I just miss so much about him everything that he brought to the holidays. Thanksgiving was not at my moms house this year it was at mine, and it just did not seem the same. Course it isn't going to be the same that I understand. But where does someone begin, to have these holidays be wonderful again? When the most important person is not there. He was the one that cut the turkey, the one that sat at the head of the table and bounced one of the children on his knee. At Christmas he was the one that wanted to make sure everyone got just what they wanted. He decorated the outside of the house, he helped unload the cars with all the presents and put them under the tree. He knew every right move to make to have the most wonderful Christmas. Now nothing. I used to get so excited to decorate now my tree has been sitting in my house for 3 days........undecorated. I know you are all probably saying get over it, or it's all still new, but I don't think our holidays will ever be that moment that you treasure, because our father played such a big role in our family. My question is I don't know how to explain to my children why I'm sad or why I cry when we are decorating something or cooking the thanksgiving dinner they don't understand and I do not want to make there holiday suck like mine do now. My pain for my mother grows so much as well cause I know nothing is the same for her and to look at her and see the pain kills me inside. So if anyone has any answers please let me know because i have not a clude how to make the holidays be jolly anymore???????
Posted by: Dedicated Sports Mom on 11/29/2005 at 2:39 AM | Comments (17) | Permalink
Here we go Again
This whole religion and Holiday stuff! Get a job you anti people. For as long as I can remember back, when i was in school we always got to say the beauty of those words. Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Bible that is what kept our country strong. This is my thinking, we had one child in my class in grade school that did not celebrate some of these holidays fine.... she would either get the day off of school or they had a room that those 5 children could go to and play games of their choice, they were fine with that. We the rest of the school got to proceed with our Christmas party, Halloween party etc. everyone was happy!!!!! Why, should most of the American children have to give up what they beleive in?Because some of those that don't, their parents say it is wrong and not fair to their children. What about the beleifs that I teach my children. So maybe then I should cry and cause big stinks like the few that don't beleive, and say I want my children to have parties that are called Christmas parties, Halloween parties, etc. When I helped my childs room this year for their Halloween party... it was like we had to watch what we called it. Oh no not me it was called a Halloween party!!!!!! If these people want to come here, this is how most of us Americans celebrate the holidays in this free country so get used to it. I do beleive in changes but I don't think we need to take away all of ours to accomodate all of theirs. SORRY......
Posted by: Dedicated Sports Mom on 11/10/2005 at 10:54 AM | Comments (21) | Permalink
You will never believe this!!!!
I sat up late last night talking with my friend, and she couldn't have been more confused about the sport that her child had played for the last 9 years.
She is just as dedicated to children as I am. She would probably be very angry that I wrote this but she never reads blogs. It just makes me so upset. Here is the story and make no mistakes though there is a happy ending.
Starts out that she dedicated all her time last year to Fargo community children to keep an organization running for an affordable hockey. All you hockey people I'm sure know the high cost involved and you can relate. I know that her family all helped and supported her because anytime you tried to get a hold of any of them they were never home. They were all working at the hockey arena.
The year goes by and now the next season is here. Low and behold some monstors come in and demand her to do things only their way. No room for changing, like it or leave.
This meant that the affordable organization would no longer be able to be affordable. She asked the other sports facilities in town to take in the children that would have came to the organization. They said they would.....Great!
Well, tables turned about 5 days into the season. After they have people come to sign up their kids, one said that it would not be able to afford to make another team. She was devistated! Now where would her child go?
She was then told, " Yes, we do have room." Then, "No, we won't have room." She searches for another organization to take him to. He loves the sport.
She finds one and they tell her they will take him so she can breathe easy now. He will get to play.
Three days later, they call her back. They tell her that now they had 20 kids call and say they want to come skate with them. They had to make a board decision to not take any of them. She understood because they needed to take care of their own in their community first and Fargo should be doing the same.
She talks with her child and he decides to take the camp at one organization. He does knowing all along that he will actually get only 3 short weeks of hockey season this year but goes and gives it his all. He does not complain, he's just a little sad that he can't play the whole year.
His mom talks to him and tells him that they do have room for him at another organization but he needs to let her know soon so she can again get him registered. He agrees and says he will go to that one.
She gets something to sign him off from one to go to another, and low and behold the one that signs him off calls her and tells her that they now have room. Now she thinks, "Oh my goodness, what am I gonna tell my son now and what do I do with this other organization?"
She talked to her 12 year old son and this was his reaction: "Are you serious?" She says, "Yes. So, you need to decide agaiiiiiiin."
His reply, "No. I was not good enough before. I am not good enough now. The other organization gave me the chance and I won't do that to them." She agreed and told him to call them and tell them because it was his decision. He did.
Do you see three things here?
1. She is very dedicated to her children to do whatever it takes to let them be who they want to be. (Glad there is another parent out there like me.)
2. She does not make it about her. She lets her children decide and does not push them.
3. She has raised a very respectable little boy who has concerns for other children. Knows not to use them until he gets what he wants, but is also a dedicated player. Remember, he is only 12.
He also has had many great times with his friends and speaks very highly of the kids that he took the camp with. He hopes one day to skate with them as they wanted and told him they would make room for him. I believe it was the politics of the parents that got in the way of this little boy. I think we all need to step back and ask the children more often how they feel about the game and not do what we as adults want.
Posted by: Dedicated Sports Mom on 11/10/2005 at 9:51 AM | Comments (13) | Permalink
Fargo on the Grow
How correct as well from Thank you Prozac. We are a community on the grow but it only seems like the middle class end up getting everything that the upperclass don't want in their neighborhoods. Most of our sex offenders drug pushers live in the middle class neighborhoods. Don't see many of them in $200,000.00 homes. We have the outlet malls, and even though I live in Fargo, I used to live in West Fargo. How about all those people that have Walmart by there homes and their children what they don't mean anything? You don't see them complaining and how many of you whitey tideys down south there shop at that Walmart!! West Fargo is surrounded by Main, 45th and 13th AMEN that they are a city on the growth and don't complain and that they put up more hockey arenas so that children can skate come on people. Think about it
Posted by: Dedicated Sports Mom on 11/2/2005 at 10:32 AM | Comments (88) | Permalink