I have a pal named Chick Harris who coached for 33 years in the NFL. We have been friends for many years and you won’t find a better person than Chick. Well, he always had a saying about we coaches …. “Donny, we do what we do!”
In other words – we don’t know very many things so we have to fall back on football. So then …. “We do what we do!” We do football anytime and anywhere – and that’s what I did Saturday!
Saturday my friend Chris Warzecha invited me to attend the Flag Football tournament at the Stockhorn Arena turf field. Chris is a fantastic man who gives so much of his time to the kids and the Thun Tigers in general. Plus, the man is an MD. How he finds time for everything is beyond me.
He basically pulled the tournament together and organized the teams to set up the games. It was a great day to be on the turf again and the kids absolutely loved the competition. Interestingly there can be a big difference in ages for the kids. There were a few seven years old players and a few 16 year olds. Big difference in physical and mental maturity.
You can imagine as the day wore on and the younger guys got tired the attention span had a tendency to wane. Think t-ball baseball with the kids picking dandelions or watching the airplanes fly overhead. Yup, that started to happen. But it was fun to watch – they really had a blast.
One of the coaches from Calanda (Broncos) was a friend. We met at the Swiss Senior National Training camp in Willesau a few years ago. We reconnected and he caught me up on his family and what was going on in his life.
I had nothing to do but to stand around and share stories with some of the Tiger coaches and other people who were at the field. Oh yeah as the afternoon wore down I sat down with Bradley and Peter for a beer on the steps outside of the field. (In Switzerland, you can basically have a beer anywhere at any time!) …. By the way the beer here is pretty good! … oh yeah, so is the chocolate for that matter.
Christian’s young son Josh had a great day playing. He is quite a player – his older sister took care of setting up the field and I imagine she was a
supervisor. I have a feeling they run the household as well.
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