Tonight, Irene and I went to the annual Scottbluff High School verses Gering High School “football” game. We are, of course, talking American football not the real variety, which Americans like to call “soccer.” Here in America, high school and college sports are pretty big, I think too big, and to the determent of academics, but that is another story.

So, we went to the football game and the Gering team won by a score of 30-22. At the end of the game, I actually thought that Gering might blow the game, but, in the end, they came out ahead. What this means is that Gering finish their “football”  season at 8-1, which is pretty good. Gering have qualified for the play-offs and are also district champions.

Next Friday afternoon, Gering are supposed to play Lexington at home in the first game of the play-offs. From what I understand, this has been scheduled for mid-afternoon, meaning school will release early so the kids can go watch the game. Only in America do kids get out of school to watch a football game.