Monday, 3 February, 2020
Before I get into the longest day of the year for all American football loving people in Europe, let's take a look at today's sports headline about yesterday's AC Milan game that ended in a 1-1 tie with Verona.
No Ibra, no party INDEED!
O.K., it's on to the events of Super Bowl MONDAY.
You can see by this map that
Super Bowl LIV, in our time zone,
started at 00:30, aka, 12:30 a.m.
Milan, Italy time on Monday
Nine of us met at Skorpions
LB Coach Fabio Drigo's home
to watch the action
That's Fabio on the right taking a group selfie just before kickoff.
That's Fabio again on the far
right when he was the first
one of us to fall asleep at
about 2:30 a.m.
He would not be the only one of us to drift in and out of consciousness during the second half of the game.
That included me during the last ten minutes of the game.
Our view of what was a good game
Meanwhile in back in Camarillo,
Mary was enjoying Laurie's usual
Super Bowl munchies
Jacob, Laurie, Mary and Michael
It was a competitive game throughout
I was happy to see longtime Head Coach
Andy Reid win his first Super Bowl
On the far left is the Chiefs'
Defensive Coordinator Steve Spagnuolo
Steve Spanuolo was one of our
Venom Camp coaches in Varese
last Spring
Coach Spagnuolo is a really nice man who did a wonderful job imparting his knowledge of the game to all of the coaches and players at the Venom Camp.
K.C.'s Coach Spagnuolo on the left with
the Chicago Bears coaches that also
worked the Venom Camp to perfection
The Super Bowl ended at about 4:15 a.m. our time and I didn't get to bed until 5:00 a.m. which was a problem as we were starting our school visits to introduce and hopefully recruit new athletes into the Skorpion fold as either tackle or flag players.
I only got two hours of sleep
before starting my travels
at this bus stop
Then it was a short train ride to beautiful Venegono Inferiore to hook up with Skorpions DB Coach Dario A'Delfio for our four classes today at the Isiss Don Milani Venegono Inferiore School.
Isiss?
This is a an Art Magnet High School with a lot of really good young people as it turns out.
We all enjoyed simple, 50 minute Introduction to American Football lessons today
Period 1 met at 10:00 a.m.
The class size was just about perfect for our drills in their gymnasium or palestra as it's called in Italian.
Period 2 started at 11:00 a.m.
A small class but we had fun including learning to do the infamous . . .
. . . WAVE!
Period Three began at Noon
At this point, my brain started turning into mush due to my lack of sleep but the kids gave us an honest effort.
Period 4, our last class,
started at 1:00 p.m.
Completely brain dead at this point, I have no idea what went on in front of my eyes but since no one was crying or injured at the end, it must have gone well too.
The final chore of the day was joining Santa Barbara and Raffa Nardi for our weekly trip to the Esselunga Supermarket to purchase another week's worth of provisions.
The Star Wars figures give-away at Esselunga was still in full swing.
The Forces of Good and Evil
now reside in the Villa Skorpion II
We'll have another four hours of class at the same school in the morning with new students followed by a meeting with a teacher at an elementary school to see about expanding our outreach program to a younger crowd.
Then, at 8:30 p.m., our Senior Team will practice at Skorpion Field for two hours.
No rest for the weary . . .
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