Stay at Home Day and a Spirited Mariners Practice

Thursday, February 27, 2025

The lethargy continued today as I spent another day in the apartment watching lots of great documentaries about my current favorite topic of interest, the Spanish Civil War.

I did take breaks from these history lessons to do some grocery shopping and make some video highlight tapes via the HUDL app of our next opponent's, the Las Rozas Black Demons 

(5-0), Special Teams play.

In the evening, I was off to our practice field for our final practice for the next week. The much anticipated pre-Lenten Carnival/Antroxu festivities in Gijón/Xixón start on Friday, so we cancelled the one hour practice for tomorrow night.

The gigantic conclusion to the Antroxu celebration is Mardi Gras next Tuesday followed by Ash Wednesday which is a National Holiday in this, at least nominally, Catholic country. We will be unable to practice next Tuesday as well because the field will not be open for any public use that day.

Thus, after tonight, we will not practice again until next Thursday, March 6th. We have the second of two back-to-back bye weeks the weekend of March 8-9 before playing the Black Demons at home on Saturday, March 15th.

As for tonight's workout, it was a really good one as our emphasis was on individual techniques for the first hour before going into a half line/half field scrimmage due to the usual Offensive Line attendance issues.

Despite not being able to go 11-on-11, it was a highly spirted, competitive 45 minutes of scrimmage work with the emphasis on the passing game and how to defend it with some runs sprinkled in.

I felt encouraged by what I saw tonight from our Mariners.

Half Line/Half Field . . .

. . . but all out effort!

The calm before the Storm

As I said, I felt upbeat after this workout.

Thus, there was only one thing left to do on a Thursday night, join Kike, Edu and special guest diner DaCa for yet another post practice meal at Dipo's Sports Bar.

This reminded me of the made up

"Orange Bowl Action" game I used to

play with my sisters on the stairs of

our home in San Marino back in the 1960s

 

This banner at Dipo's intrigued me

I was told be my friends that U.C. Ceares is a local team that competes in the netherworld that is Division III soccer in Spain.

Regardless of Division, they still have a rabid fan base and I am led to believe that going to see them play at home is a most worthwhile experience.

I'll check out their schedule on the net for sure on Friday.

Speaking of the internet . . .

How did this sport ever fall out of favor?

I've been saying this for years

Antroxu in Xixón

LET THE FUN BEGIN!