Disher Family Fodder
Wow what a game.
Beating the Ravens was critical, and doing it in their house even better. The Ravens are certainly hurting, but they are still a brutal physical team even without the likes of one Ray Lewis.
The Bengals however proved today that they too can be a physical team. They took some hits and dished out quite a few of their own.
Roll on Bengals roll on.
Maria lost her first tooth tonight! Can you tell she’s proud?
We talked about it all the way home from picking Molly up from gymnastics and after dinner at Wendy’s.
When we got home I told her to get ready for bed and that if she wanted me to yank it to bring me a paper towel, if she didn’t go ahead and get in bed.
Low and behold she showed up beside me with a paper towel. I tore off a piece and said, here you try first, put this over your tooth and pull, it should come right out.
She did, and it did. Her eye’s were as big as saucers. 🙂
It bled, but she didn’t get upset. She couldn’t wait to write Maggie a note, and put it in the bag for the Tooth fairy.
She’s a tough cookie… Molly almost passed out the first time.
Part of my Google start page has a ‘How-To’ Section.
This came up today: How to throw a Javelin
The javelin toss, a popular track and field sport in the Olympic games, involves hurling a metal-tipped spear as far as possible. It’s not that hard to throw a javelin, but it takes know-how and practice to throw a javelin properly.
Click the link above if you want to know how to do it. I’m not going to spoil it for you.
and of course:
WARNING: Don’t let people stand to your side or along angles in front of the path of your throw. Keep any onlookers behind you.
You know, cause, you never know when you might need to know that…
Wow, the Bengals are 6-2.
Let’s keep things in perspective. The teams the Bengals have beaten have a combined record of: 12 -31. Except for the Bears, who are now 4-3, everyone else is 2-5 or worse. (Yikes)
So the Bengals can keep it together and beat the the really downtrodden, something that was not always possible in the past.
But what they used to be able to do, was get up for big games, and surprise you. Remember undefeated Kansas City? Part of that I’m sure was other teams taking Cincy for granted which they simply no longer do.
But Sunday’s game against Green Bay. Lordy, 5 turn overs. That’s amazing. Erich at work predicted Bret would throw 4 interceptions.
But that’s the problem. They had taken the ball away 4 times and had scored 0 points off of those turn overs. After four picks, Green Bay was still in it. With minutes to play in the 3rd quarter you could feel that Green Bay was going to pull this out, or that the Bengals, in typical Bengal fashion was going to throw it away.
Thankfully the Defense pulled yet another rabbit out of the hat for the 5th turnover of the day, of which we converted.
Still, Bret, brought them back. Yeah, this is the NFL and any team on any Sunday, yadda, yadda. But you know what. Pittsburg doesn’t say that. They say, come to our house and we’ll kick the livin snot out of you, and they usually do.
Giving the Bengals their due; they didn’t fold. They kept their poise. Chris Perry is the man, he’s a thinking back, he stayed in bounds and kept the clock running unlike a wide reciever who blew an opportunity to add 3 points at the end of the half.
Marvins got the boys moving. They should make short work of Baltimore, they should make a statement and beat them by 21 or more. Again the Bengals didn’t cover the spread against Green Bay. They should whoop the Ravins and get prepared for Indy.
Today was also Maria’s last game.
The Cheeto’s finished their season undefeated I think. Might have lost one, and tied a couple.
Todays game didn’t start out so well, but they battled back in the end to tie the game 1-1 and had all the momentum as the remaining minutes wound off the clock. It’s the candy league and they don’t _really_ keep score, allthough you know every parent on the sideline is 🙂
Coach Rick and Coach Mike were excellent with the kids. My hat is off to them. They handled them all with kid gloves, were always positive and keeping them moving in the right direction. You guys rock!
Maria had a blast, and if she doesn’t end up in Gymnastics will play again next year I’m sure.
Thanks for making her season so much fun.
Photos from the last game are in the gallery here