Homecoming and Small town Texas football

Homecoming 2007 is now over! It was fun and everyone enjoyed themselves. Our team won and the most important thing is the Ex's Association raised quite a bit of money for scholarships.
Thank you so much Former Students of MHS!!!

Our small Texas town still has a Homecoming Parade, Queen and nominees. The cheerleaders, drill team and former classes make a showing in the parade. The oldest class represented this year was 1937.

Along the parade route, we encountered MANY people who should have been IN the parade!! Especially those who represent the 70, 80 and 90's. You know who I am talking to!! I believe you were on Market Street and Troupe Street???

Of course, along with small town Texas football comes kids running up and down bleachers, yelling for your team, nachos and tempers. Here, tempers don't have to flare over the actual game, it can be about kids running up and down in front of people who are trying to watch the game.

Admit it...you know that when you are at a game your kids are up and down, up and down or you make them stay out of the bleachers to play with their friends.

My mom always made us stay down with our friends since it was rude to be running back and forth interrupting people. In other words...we were NOT ALLOWED!!!! Unless we were bleeding, NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

We knew when and where to meet them during half time and at the end of the game.

Now, parents don't care. People just let their kids run amok. Respect for others is something that is overlooked.

There was a teacher who once said that "We have to spend our time here at school teaching manners because parents won't".

I heard a story about an incident at a football game once.

A mother and daughter were sitting in the stands on a Friday night watching a high school game. Children kept running in front of them to get to their parents, squeezing in between the small isles where people rest their feet.

You have to move your feet or stand up for people to get by. If someone does that say, 7 times during the 1st quarter you are going to be upset.

Mind you, a man had already put an end to this situation on the isle he set on with the same children.

The daughter said "no, your not coming through this way anymore". (After awhile that gets very old.) The children's mother got extremely angry about this and confronted the daughter with "Oh, yes they will come through here". You know how we women get, bobbing that head back and forth then sealing it with a "I'm better than you." look. Prompting the husband to spout something which in turn makes the mother say something back.

Right now this story is as clear as mud, right?

Actually this happens a lot. I would have really been surprised to hear this about this "christian" couple had there not been witnesses to the incident.

Shouldn't we as "Christians" reflect love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness and above all else "self control" even at football games???

Or should the daughter have just kept her mouth shut???

I see both sides...I do. I have small children who like to run around. But not at the expense of others.

And what if that daughter was a lost soul??? Now she knows that there is no difference between her and the children's mother.

It's kind of what Julie said on her blog...Who would you like to meet??? It's the same with Myspace...somewhere it will say that their hero is Jesus but most of the comments they have on there are vulgar, nasty or sick. And they will Thank Him for everything but they have a picture of "Bud" as a layout.

It's the same when you go to a football game...you are a layout for Christ.