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Sunday Night...Some final thoughts

By Lew
December 12, 2005

Well...it's been a few hours since the game.
I feel better than I thought I would. Maybe age does that for a person, I don't know.

I just feel pretty good about the Mustang's season. I am not disappointed like I thought I would be. I have tried to understand why that is, and I think after thinking about it since last night I can put it into persepective.

I'm not disappointed by the loss to Tatum for a few reasons.

1) I firmly believe the Mustangs played the very absolute best they could have. How can you not like when a team of fine young men leave it all on the field and gave it their best? Isn't that as good as it gets anyway? When people lay their heads down at night, how many can say they gave it their best that day?

2) Sweetwater fans. With the advent of last year's movie "Friday Night Lights" it's pretty well documented that Texas High School Football is pretty serious here in Texas. How fortunate I was to grow up in Sweetwater and get to see and hear the Red Sea first hand. I think many times how the west side of Mustang Bowl looked on any given Friday night during football season. I remember thinking, "if people don't wear red, if people didn't want to be here, they were making a big mistake." As a student at Sweetwater pep rallies, and being a huge Mustang fan even in grade school way back in the mid 60's, I have always been impressed with the Mustang fans. I did not get to attend the game Saturday night like I had hoped to. I had to work and believe it or not...work does pay the bills. I wish I just got paid for writing this blog, but alas no..I don't get paid to write. Of course should anyone want to donate..LOL ummm never mind. But when I tuned into the webcast......I couldn't believe my ears!!!!!!!! Ya'll were LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!
Even the neutral announcers from the webcast said several times how much they were impressed with the number of Sweetwater fans and how loud you were. And call me crazy, but the train horn..makes me break out in chills..!!! I don't know whose idea that horn was...but it is totally awesome!!
By the way..you all know what I want for Christmas? Sometime next season maybe, just maybe...I could report on the Mustangs from the sidelines!! How neat would that be???? I could maybe see Banyard, Green.and all the rest of the Mustangs up close!!

3) I have to tell ya'll that I'm not really sure how the Blog here is gonna work out. I mean I don't know anything yet, but there will be some changes in the future with the Abilene Reporter-News, and I am not privy to those changes as of yet. I am hoping that I can write all during the year here, but I don't know yet. I know football season is over for this year...and I guess technically so is my writing. But last year the good folks at GoFridayNight.com didn't close this blog down...they sort of let it stay open all year. Maybe we can do that again this off-season..I dunno. If ya'll want the ol blog to stay active...maybe a nice word from the Big Red Fandom might help. I know it would help if we had more comments. I am proud to say that the week of the Monahans game, we set a very impressive record as far as hits to the site. That's encouraging! The numbers aren't in yet for last week, but I bet it's going to be healthy as well.

Just FYI, I do have some things planned for the blog for the rest of this month, and if we make it to January, I hope to start writing about the basketball season as well as the track season, and maybe even baseball. I would like to expand it to more girls sports also.

Why do I want to keep writing about Sweetwater??? Why not just kick back now that the football season is over?

When people do the best that they can, it's interesting for me to be able to be a part of it, and tell folks in Tatum, Monahans, Snyder or where ever...how we have such good young people in our schools. I want people from other towns to see what good qualities Mustangs have. I have actually made several friends from other towns this way. I can't tell you how flattered I was in reading several Tatum fan's e-mails telling me how much they enjoyed the Sweetwater Mustangs and the fans. That means a lot to me for folks to say that about Sweetwater.

I guess I'll quit rambling for awhile.

Tomorrow starts a new day, a new week.....and the first official day of the Sweetwater Mustang football off season. Hit those weights boys. Next year is gonna be here soon, and we need to get ready to make another march to a state championship!!!!!

Go Red!!

LewP

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