Mon. - Thurs., March 8-18, 2021
It has ben a long time since our last post but we've been relatively busy now that we have both received our two Coronavirus vaccine shots.
Our son Michael has gradually
returned to his classroom at
Newbury Park H.S.
He only goes in two days per week with only a few students in attendance with him while still doing online instruction.
He has had his first Covid vaccine and is still quite wary about live instruction.
How I felt after getting my
second vaccine shot
Immortal . . .
Jacob and young Milo FitzGerald
had a playdate at a nearby park
The fate of Contreras men . . .
Always the horse, never the rider
Beautiful weather for my
revitalized walking regimen
News from the net . . .
Well, DUH!
Absolutely!
Often times
TRUE!
I never liked group work
in school
On to the EuroBall scene . . .
Steve Hagen was a WR for us when
I coached at Thousand Oaks H.S.
in the 1970s
After several years as an NCAA and NFL coach, he now moves on to a season in Italy as Head Coach of the Guelfi Firenze based in Florence.
In bocca al lupo, Steve!
On to Spain . . .
Our beloved Serie C
Guadalajara Stings were at it again
The Stings the only undefeated
club in Serie C after beating
the Tenerife Helldogs 19-12
Our old club, the Murcia Cobras,
are having a tough time competing
in Serie A in 2021
Conversely, another club that I coached in Spain, the Osos Rivas near Madrid, are having a solid season to date in Serie A.
The Dracs have been THE powerhouse
club in Spain over the last several years
The Cobras lost this game but fought to
the end in a great display of character
The L'Hospitalet Pioners
improved to 5-0
I am currently helping the Pioners as the team's Analytics Coach. Despite the win, we are playing below our earlier season standards. That being said, under the circumstances, we gladly accepted the 20-15 victory over the Valencia Firebats over the weekend.
Sad, SAD News from France
For the second consecutive season, the French Federation has shut down their American football season due to Covid-19 concerns after postponing it twice.
France is in the grips of a third wave of Covid-19 spiking.
French Health officials declared that American football in France is an amateur sport. Thus, to combat the pandemic, if they do practice, they can NOT practice blocking or tackling. Also, they can NOT practice after 6:00 p.m. on weekdays or at all on weekends.
Game over.
I guess that if you are a professional sport in France, you are automatically immune from and Coronavirus infection concerns.
We had our vaccines so we took a
drive down the Pacific Coast Highway
and ended up at Eataly!
Located in Century City, it is the BEST place in Los Angeles to find all things related to Italian cuisine.
A Piaggio!
The GREAT biscotti from Novara,
the hometown of Skorpions OL Coach
"Mitico" Leo Pozzato
And we LOVE them!
PASTICCERIA . . .
The bounty that we purchased
in Eataly
Our mid-afternoon snack was
SOPRENDENTE!
High school football finally returned to Southern California.
Los Angeles County schools were allowed to start playing the weekend of March 11-13.
Ventura County schools would not be allowed to start until the following weekend because of slightly more severe pandemic infection numbers than in Los Angeles County.
The first game of the unheard of
2021 SPRING season featured the
El Camino Real Conquistadors (0-0)
at
the Agoura Chargers (0-0)
Pre-game with Charlie Wegher,
Paul Sabolic and Jason Sabolic
Charlie was the long time, highly successful Head Coach at Agoura H.S. and our former QB at Westlake H.S.
Paul is a long time friend from our shared Washington Huskies experience.
Jason, Paul's son, was in his first game as El Camino Real's new Head Coach.
Nice ECR helmet logo
With Jason and Paul
The 2021 High School Spring
Season kicks off
Agoura in their Los Angeles-
San Diego-Los Angele Chargers
powder blue jerseys
Jason only has three Seniors
on his roster
This will make for a difficult Spring but should reap huge benefits next Fall.
I like the looks of ECR's
false pulling lineman #77
Not many people in attendance as Covid-19-19 rules for these games only allowing each player and coach to have two people in the stadium. No one else, including the band and cheerleaders, are allowed at these games.
I loved it when this ECR WR
waived hello to us
With Charlie Wegher
With Roy Hobbs, a.k.a,
Michael Contreras
In a tough opener for ECR, the Chargers prevailed 56-6.
Mary was as happy
as ever this week
Jacob celebrated his ninth
birthday on March 18th
Mary was happy to celebrate
with her brother
On his birthday, Jacob
lost another front tooth
Celebrating with Jacob and Mike
The start of the 2021 JV on March 18th
Rio Mesa Spartans (0-0) at
Ventura Cougars (0-0)
One of our former players, Jorge Zaragoza, is the Spartans' OL Coach and invited me to the game as his guest.
The Spartans are in the white jerseys
This TD catch by the Cougars on
4th and Goal from the 29 made
the score 13-0 in favor of Ventura
At Halftime I met with two of the
referees, Justin Schmidt and John DuBose
Justin was a former starting Center of ours at Rio Mesa and John was an outstanding OL Coach with the Spartans.
They have both become excellent referees over the years.
As for the game, the Spartans had a tremendous late game comeback to win 14-13!
