The Mule Fan

Our Mules easily cross two hurdles to qualify for this year's 4A State Playoffs:

ALAMO HEIGHTS 55 and MEMORIAL 0

ALAMO HEIGHTS 31 and KENNEDY 0

Helloooooooooooooo Mule Fans!!!! So glad to be back in touch with y'all again!!! GO MULES GO MULES GO MULES!!!!! YA MUN! I have been in Boston during their World Series win, Patriots over the Colts, Celtics first season wins with Kevin Garnet, Boston College's last second two TD win over the Hokies and follow-up loss to Florida State. And for all that I say to any Bostonian that will listen, "WHO CARES!!!" 'cause our Mules got two nice wins to talk about and Qualified for State!... put that in your Boston Tea Party and guzzle it!!!!

First, the Memorial game which unfolded as a "Halloween Event" on Friday, October 26th at Orem Stadium. You are going to laugh at this Reporter. Not being able to find this game on the Internet (which I figured out how to do for our Kennedy game) I listened to it by calling my daughter's cell phone and having her place the open line in front of the radio... picture yours truly hunched over my cell phone for nearly three hours. Gotta Love those Mules.

So anyway, what I heard was a thorough thrashing delivered by our Mules over top the Memorial Minutemen in every quarter of the game. I mean just look at the score... 55-0. The cool thing about this game (and the Kennedy game) was that so many Mules got into the game. The fact that we were able to continue to dominate says a lot about our boys and our INCREDIBLE Coaching Staff.

The other element that bares lifting up in Praise is coming to grips with HOW AWESOME OUR MULES FOOTBALL TEAM IS IN TERMS OF CHARACTER as exemplified when a Memorial Football Player was injured at the end of the game. The fact that our fine young men took to the Memorial Team with a Loving Embrace (literally laying their arms over the Minutemen) by crossing the field and taking a knee in Prayer with them when one of their brethren had fallen WAS SO MOVING AND AWESOME AND INCREDIBLE AND WONDERFUL. My eyes are welling just writing this... ahhh there is hope for us older generations just knowing when we release these young men into the world, which will be all to soon, that they will go off and do great things, and do it while also caring for those in need. Our Mules have Heart. They are an inspiration.

Hanky pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease... ok ok, God Love'm.

One game highlight to mention was Senior Strong Safety #9 Jake Carr's interception and TD romp into the endzone near the end of the game displaying skill (nice catch) and speed (sweet bullet run into the endzone)... this could not have happened to a more complete team player who to this reporter's knowledge, never gripes, continually lifts up others, and when called on goes about accomplishing his football responsibilities with zest.

Here is a link to the Memorial Album (no captions, so just hit "slide show" in upper left corner):
http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/ViewAlbum.aspx?a=460181

Now we turn to Kennedy. A little side note that the Kennedy High School was the first high school in the USA named for John F. Kennedy as the naming occurred before JFK' assassination. In fact, as some may recall, JFK had just come from San Antonio to Dallas on that fateful tragic day... part of that San Antonio trip included JFK' stopping at the construction site of Kennedy High School for a naming event that he attended. Think about that next time Kennedy comes to town... this is a school with some substantial history.

Now despite being 1-7 coming to our house on Friday, November 2nd, those Kennedy "Rockets" came to play some football... no rolling over to play dead for the reigning 4A Division I State Champs, no-sir-ree-Bob.

When you look at the game's stats, what does not come out was the fact that during the 1st Quarter when the game was still 0-0, those Rockets marched right down the field to the 4-yard line. THAT WAS WHEN our KICK-TAIL-DEFENSE flexed its muscle and reached deep into its character bucket to say to themselves, "No, you are not going to score boys, naa-uh." Our "D" then kept those Minutemen from going in, and actually pushed them BACKWARD. This had a deflating effect by NOT LETTING KENNEDY INTO THE GAME. It sounded to me that although the Rockets put up a good game after this stop, our Defense really showed them "forget even having an inkling of winning this game."

There after our Offense stepped up and began a scoring regularly throughout the game.

A really cool thing was the SWEET TD catch by Senior Wide Receiver, #85 Thomas "Doctor" King. A thing of beauty that takes years of practice catching ball to come down with a snag like that. The other was the hutspa of fellow Senior Wide Receiver, #24 Nick "The Quick" Amick, who made two very nice catch-and-run TDs during this game. During what was "Senior Night" it was super cool that these two Seniors, as well as many others, had solid games that showed off their skills one last time in Harry B. Orem Stadium.

Here is a link to the Kennedy Album:

http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/ViewAlbum.aspx?a=460117

Also, you may wish to return to the Boerne Game posting to look at the Boerne Album which has been added at the time of this posting.

KERRVILLE INTELLIGENCE REPORT

For those not in the close area of Alamo Heights, we are playing away at the "Antlers" of Kerrville Tivy, which is a Hill Country town that plays pretty darn good football on a regular basis each year. Presently at 9-0, this year Kerrville is ranked #8 in the State by the Associated Press going into this weeks game. Alamo Heights, 8-1, is presently ranked #17 by Texas Football/State Farm Poll. This is a TITANIC GAME for local bragging rights.

In our own District 27-4A, both Kerrville and Alamo Heights are 4-0 in District, and have qualified for the State Playoffs, so this game is FOR THE DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP.

Now Kerrville is pretty good. No denying that. But, some attenuating factors that have caused this Reporter to ponder...

1. Our Mules handily beat Boerne, 28-15... the Antlers had to go to triple overtime to beat Boerne last week.

2. Mules Defense is arguably EQUAL TO THE BEST IN THE STATE AT THIS VERY MOMENT. Now that is a bold statement... but our "D" has limited its opponents to 94 points this season... the only 4A schools with better stats in this quarter are #1 in District 20-4A Houston Yates, #2 in District 24-4A El Campo, and #3 in District 22-4A Dayton. You can verify at:

http://www.texasfootball.com/index.php?s=&change_well_id=2&url_article_id=1579

3. Our Offense is hitting its post-season stride with Quarterback Drew Allen having 300+ yard passing games and ALL KINDS OF MULE RECEIVERS CATCHING THAT FOOTBALL. In addition, our Offensive Line is TOUGH TOUGH TOUGH, not allowing a sack in the past few games.

Look out Kerrville the Mules are inbound with heavy ordinance!

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All I can say here is GO MULES, BEAT KERRVILLE!!!!!