Thurs.-Sat., December 3-5, 2020
A good thing that has come out of the pandemic for me, and I guess for many others as well, is the time to sit back and reflect on life and its many mysteries.
This me time has allowed me to make quite a few discoveries such as . . .
. . . I NEVER thought about this
before the Coronavirus hit
Thursday morning was time for our
weekly Varese Skorpions Offensive
Zoom meeting
This week's topic was "The Wonders of the Running Back Screen Game."
Thursday afternoon was also the start of Laurie's conversion from the last of the Thanksgiving decorations to the onslaught of her fifty year love affair with Christmas bric-a-brac.
It all started with the buying
of our Christmas tree with Jacob
helping to make the pick at
Big Wave Dave's Christmas Tree Lot
Our University of Washington
ornaments, courtesy of Paul Sabolic,
looked great as always
Laurie's Italia themed decorations
looked awesome as well
Both of these sets of family heirloom Christmas memorabilia are quite heavy, which is why we do not place them on our tree.
Speaking of the tree . . .
The 2020 Contreras Family
Christmas Tree
On a walk in our neighborhood
we discovered a possible Christmas
lawn decoration massacre
Mike and I listened together to this
Zoom discussion with great interest
Several of the women who played for our
Europe Warriors team in Mexico City last
December are playing for these teams in the
Women's National Football Conference
If Covid-19 allows it, try to make it out to a game near you, I think that you will be pleasantly surprised.
Speaking of American football . . .
Stanford Cardinal (1-2)
at Washington Huskies (3-0)
Saturday's game would be a rarity for the Dawgs, a daylight game scheduled to kickoff at 1:00 p.m.
While Stanford's record did not look good, it must be remembered that Cardinal Head Coach David Shaw's record against the Huskies was 6-3.
Last year, the Contreras family traveled to Palo Alto to watch Stanford's latest effort on The Farm to make our beloved Huskies look like a pre-Charles Atlas 95 pound weakling in handing Washington a soul crushing 23-13 loss.
Although that score doesn't look all that bad, it is Stanford's ability to run the ball at will with some timely/deadly play action passes that are just daggers in the heart of Husky fans.
Laurie set up a mini-spread for
us to enjoy with son Mike while
viewing this year's contest
The Cardinal were facing difficult circumstances as Santa Clara County where Stanford is located had issued a no practice/no play order until at least December 21st for ALL teams calling this county their home including Stanford, San José State and the NFL's San Francisco 49ers.
As a result, Stanford spent the week in a hotel in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue working out alternately in the hotel's parking garage, a city park and a local high school's game field.
Talk about being resilient!
Today's contest in Seattle would be the 91st game between these two West Coast universities.
The series started in 1893 with a 40-0 Stanford victory in Seattle.
"POWERS" was a good word
to describe a disappointing day
For the second straight week, the Huskies had to overcome a large, 21 point halftime deficit as we trailed 24-3.
Offensively we responded by outscoring the Cardinal 23-7 in the Second Half but it was a case of too little, too late. In essence, even though they only scored once, the Cardinal still controlled the clock and the tempo. This was especially true with their offense's high First Half third down conversion rate of six for seven. On their one unsuccessful third down play they still converted on the subsequent fourth down.
With this win, Stanford now leads the all-time series 44-43-4.
Up next for the now 3-1 and still PAC-12 North leading Huskies is a regular season ending trip to Eugene to play the Oregon Ducks (3-2).
A win against the Ducks would put the Huskies into the PAC-12 Championship Game against either USC (3-0) who play a Covid-19 rescheduled game on Sunday against Washington State (1-1) or the Colorado Buffaloes (4-0).
I wonder if Oregon will dare to run the ball on the Huskies?
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