Payton has started high school and with that comes football season. This boy is built for this game. He’s had the great opportunity to play right and left guard for the offensive line. There are two boys on the team, both sophomores like Payton, that are bigger than him. Payton was looking forward to actually getting to have a little Varsity playing time subbing in for those to big guys. Well, one of them got injured and his doctors said he would be out for three weeks. The other one got a concussion so he was unable to play in the first game. The Panthers has their first game a week ago against Ridgeline High School. Todd and I left our girls with Tiffani in Hurricane and made the long 5 hour trek with Porter to watch. My mom heart was pretty dang proud of that kid. He not only played but started and didn’t sub out the whole game. He actually surprised the heck out of me because he did such a good job! (He wasn’t perfect but pretty dang good!) Pine View ended up losing by 2 points but it was so fun to yell and scream for our team.
This last Friday night game was against Highland. I had to work so we didn’t get to travel and watch him play but fortunately we could watch his game being streamed online. It was a little Frustrating because we just didn’t look as good as that opening game the week before. If could be that Highland is a better team, right now, but Payton missed a few blocks that cost us some yardage. I have to remember he’s young. He’s learning to much and he’s come a long way since last year.
It’s going to be an exciting season and I can’t wait to see how much more he’ll improve. Just praying he stays healthy and injury free. Go Panthers!!
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