A Weekend of Mostly Sports

in Sports Talk Social10 months ago (edited)

Hello friends and Hivers. I hope all is well with you. Today I tell you a bit of my happenings Friday thru Sunday. Most of it is involved around two basketball games my son played in.

Friday

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It was a slow day at work not really anything really mentioning. I got a little bored checking out vehicles so I decided to take some pictures out of an aircraft loader while it was raised up. There wasn't anything too cool to capture so I share these two photos.

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Friday night my son had a basketball game and it was Senior night. This year's team has four seniors. I walked with him to the middle of the court before the game started where he got a nice introduction. He was greeted by the athletic directors, coaches and players. He received a bag of goodies, a miniature hoop, and a signed Mini basketball from the team.

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I was much invested in the game/activities and it really slipped my mind to take pictures. I've found doing so you miss out on some of the action. Anyways mostly everyone in attendance were wearing the above pictured senior shirts. It was a nice view of white in the home crowd bleachers. Also the players were all wearing them as thier warm up shirts.

Unfortunately they lost a close game. My son played very hard and still put up 22 points in the defeat. After the game we met up with some of his teammates at a pizza joint.

Saturday

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The next day my son had an afternoon game at 1:30. This was the last regular season home game. The talk among the home crowd was when my son was going to score his 1000 career point. He needed 11 points to meet the achievement.

He had 8 points with 3 minutes left in the first quarter. He took a shot which looked like a 3 pointer but his toe was on the line so it only counted as two. On the next possession he posted up and scored underneath the hoop reaching the achievement.

At half time the announcer mentioned this achievement and the team presented him a cool banner to pose with the team. I wasn't able to capture the photograph because of the angle. So this photo (first photo above) was taken by the Athletic Director of the school. He ended up with 24 points for the game (had 19 in first half) and his team won big. The second photo I took after the game where many other people took pictures as well. A very proud moment for me as a father and it's one heck of achievement that not many players reach.

After the game we went home and he had some friends come over. A busy night with teenage boys playing video games and being loud. I got to bed rather late.

Sunday

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I woke up around 6:00 a.m. and after having some coffee and a simple breakfast I cut up some fruit & vegetables for later in the day for the NFL Super Bowl game. After I had lunch I decided to go do some delivery driving.

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I was still a bit tired if you can't tell from the picture. I only drove for a little over two hours. I did pretty well making just over $80 and only driving 38 miles. Part of the earnings ($25) was a promotion to complete 10 deliveries. I found out after completing the promotion there were 3 more promotions for $25 each to complete by the end of the day. Oh well even if I knew in advance I didn't have the time to complete them this weekend.

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After finishing up driving I went to pick up some food I ordered. I decided to get the main food for the Super Bowl from a restaurant called Buffalo Wild Wings. I ordered 20 boneless wings, 20 bone in wings, fries, and pretzel bites. The wings weren't great but they weren't bad either. Everything else was spot on though. I went heavy on the fruits and vegetables just didn't feel like stuffing myself full.

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Shortly after finishing eating it was game time. It was an American football contest between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs playing to earn the right to be named the Champions. I wasn't going for either team to win, just a spectator 😊 A pretty entertaining game which actually went into overtime. It got close to 9:30 p.m. and I'll admit I doze off a bit in spurts. I did see San Francisco's first possession in overtime. I fell asleep during most of Kansas City's possession but woke up for the game ending winning touchdown. Kansas City with the victory has now won back to back championships.

My son's basketball season is coming to a close. His last regular season game is tomorrow on the road. His team has a record of 14-6 and finished 3rd in thier respective conference. Any day now the playoff schedules will be released.I'm not sure if they will have another home game.

Well this is all I have for you today. It was a long busy weekend which was an absolute joy. Take care, stay safe and let the week ahead be good to you. Until next time!

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Ohooo, your son is really good in basketball. He can score a point awesomely! And the bonding timr after the game playing with friends is also a an awesome bonding. And the foods at the ends looks amazing, thats a lot.

Thank you. He's been after it seriously since he was in 5th grade. What we do tonight? We went to watch two other basketball teams play, hehe.

He can make that as a career if maybe he wants too no.

And for sure you had a good talk while watching it noo haha. Is there ever a time that you two like two different teams. I bet it can happen?

Actually we both like different professional teams. He likes the Lakers while I like the warriors, hehe.

Last night his game got cancelled. There was a misunderstanding somewhere, the referees never show up. That's a first time I've seen that happen. Good thing is it's rescheduled today and it's now at my son's school.

That could be a nice bonding too giving each others opinions about the teams you like. Just don't make it as an argument haha

Good to know that everything's cool now. For sure you are present again on it? Only if you have free time (☞^o^) ☞

An exciting weekend for your son, and I know you must have been very proud!
Weekends full of joy, what better for a good start of the week? :)

Oh yes very proud of my kiddo! A weekend like this is definitely a good jump start to a new week 😊

Well done to your son!

You certainly didn't seem too enthusiastic about the Super Bowl! It always sounds like a massive deal to us across the pond, or at least to me, as if Everyone, watches it in America.

So proud of that kid! Schedule just came out for playoffs. The first game is at home Monday against someone we beat twice already 👍.

Super Bowl, I was a little warn out plus I really didn't have a favorite I liked to win. I prepped for it some though even though I didn't eat that much. More or less the teams that played in it didn't interest me, haha.

Your son is pretty good.. 1K points in his games? Wow. Impressive.. He'll have a good future if he continues to pursue his passion.. Does he have a dream of getting into the Lakers or other incredible teams? Hehe..
Proud father you are for sure ☺️
What's his plan after senior high?

Hehe his favorite team is the Lakers. He just found out today that he got invited to a High School All Star game in late March 😊 He hasn't committed to a college yet. He's waiting until the season is over. He plans to to get a BA degree.

Wow.. That's great.. He'll have a good future ahead ☺️..

Oh a great achievement for your son in that last game 🙌😁 hope more in the future! And of course the Super Bowl, the most known sport event! Even me I know it although I have never watched it or the previous show 😅 but later there are news and images on social media...
Well I wish you a great week amigo 🤗
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Thanks Amiga it was joyful weekend for me. I watched the super bowl with not much interest probably why I fell asleep towards the end, haha. I was hoping for some hilarious commercials and the halftime show with Usher didn't do it for me when he took his shirt off, haha. Well hoping to get back on track here as I have been busy lately 😊

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Your son really did a good job👏.
Happy that you reached your target without much effort.❤️
Your don't look tired though, seems like you can still reach another target😛😁

Thank you he has exceeded not only my expectations but his own 😊

Haha ya it was nice putting some in the pocket without not much effort. I wish it was like that all the time.

I was definitely tired but I got good sleep yesterday and today so feeling re-charged 😉 ♥️

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