Not Just Another Pretty Face in the Stands

I know I am going on and on about , but hear me out. I did an informal poll this weekend (I asked a couple of my friends who are married to coaches) and none of them had seen the show as well. And, why? Because it’s on Friday nights. And, we all know where we are on Friday nights! There’s a underfoot to change it to Monday nights, and I hope they do because I think a big draw would be the people who live the lives of the people portrayed in Dillon, Texas. The main hook for me on this show is the relationship between and - the coach and his wife. I enjoyed this in the . I hope you do too.

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I told you how much I love special deliveries. They are even more fun when I don’t have to pay for them. That’s why I love looking at all my favorite beauty sites for contests. There’s tons of them. Check this one out at

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When I turn on the front porch light before turning in each evening, I always do a visual sweep of the concrete slab to make sure one of my many men (UPS, Fed Ex, USPS) haven’t left something for me. I love receiving packages and mail, especially when it’s unexpected. I also enjoy receiving unexpected items in my email inbox, as well. I have written before about book . I had signed up for her email newsletter awhile back but had forgotten about it. And, yesterday, it was such a neat surprise to receive a much-needed pick-me-up on my computer screen. Look for details. And, when you sign up, you are entered in a contest for a free drawing. Last month’s winner received a $100 gift card from Amazon.

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is reporting tonight that is looking for extras to portray fans during filming on Thursday and Friday nights. Call 512 707-7934 between the hours of 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. And, you get paid. Road trip, anyone?

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My mother urged me repeatedly the past year to watch but I never got around to it. I read the book years ago but never got around to watching the movie as well. I do not watch a great deal of TV, because I can’t sit still while laundry and dishes beckon. My mother rarely asks me to do anything, so I purchased the set the day it was released and began watching it Sunday during a long road trip. I have not gone to bed before 1 AM since then trying to cram in as many episodes as I can. I have five episodes left, so sshhhhhh, don’t tell me what happens! My brother and his wife told me Sunday they initially enjoyed the series but as the season progressed, it became less about football and more about relationships. But those relationships are what I love about the show. Watching the lives of the Dillon Panthers being played out on my laptop night after night is what I need right now. The coaches’ wife - - is a character developed by Hollywood screenwriters week after week. But she lives my life, and she shows me how to laugh at myself and gives me food for thought. I need that. Don’t we all?

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Nothing ages a coaches wife more than when the children her husband coaches go off to college, graduate, get married, have kids…I just returned from the nuptials of one of our favorite families from three coaching stops ago. While I watched from the second-to-last row, I kept wondering who was this young man in front of us, declaring his love for a woman I had never met? Was it that long ago that he cradled my 3-year-old daughter in the hallway of an old gym during a marathon basketball tournament in the Texas Panhandle? Were the boys walking down the aisle with bridesmaids by their sides really the same ones who came by on sleepy Sunday afternoons for the key to paradise (the gym) really now engineers? Who were they?
A sense of pride overtook me, but also a sense of longing. Just like the mother who was giving her son to another woman, I longed for the days when a key to the gym was as much of the future that they could fathom.

Mothers and fathers often long for the days of yesteryear. I long for them as well with my own children and for those I have watched, nurtured, cheered, coddled, and loved go on. There’s a certain kind of love you have for a group of teen-agers who work so hard for the man you love. I miss those kids, and I miss those towns and I miss those times in the stands. But there’s a new year ahead of us and I look forward to starting the process all over again and one day enjoying watching them walk down the aisle. God bless the children we coach and the parents who raise them.

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