Pre-Game Dinner...

The Babes and Coach diggin' in!

Well Thursday nights before a home game allow for me to have a welcomed night off of cooking!!  I do love to cook meals for my family...but I HATE cleaning the kitchen afterwards.  The Pre-Game dinner is a wonderful opportunity for us to get out of the house and eat someone else's delicious homemade creations.  Every eve before a home game the mothers of players as well as the cheerleaders come together and cook and serve dinner for the football team, coaches, and well...me and the babes.

The dinners are a really great community effort.  The parents are asked to bring in a casserole, bread, and milk.  The cheer leaders bring in dessert.  After practice the team changes up and heads upstairs to the caf and Coach makes a little speech thanking the parents who cooked and came to help serve.

Here are some of the delish hot dishes that parents brought in.  Last night we had a really good Baked Zitti, a Penne Pasta with sausage and a cream sauce.  There was also an Alfredo dish that was very good.  The most different but very loved dish was a Buffalo Chicken Pasta casserole.  I really enjoyed this one!  It had big chunks of Buffalo Chicken, a spicy cheesy sauce, bacon, and pasta...how could you go wrong with that?!!  The parents are also mindful enough to provide a nice big fresh green salad...we have to remind the kids to eat their greens!

I think for one of the next pre-game meals we will try breakfast for dinner.  Coach wants the kids to carbo load the night before a game...so what could be wrong with pancakes and waffles?!!

The Cheerleaders are so nice to volunteer to make dessert for the team.  Up until last year, we only had Cheerleaders for basketball season as well as their own competition season.  Now, we have them on the sidelines for all of our home games and a few of our away games.  It is really nice to have them there because they help to get the crowd into it.  The community we live in is not really a football community.  Soccer and basketball have been king here for a long time.  It's sort of neat to see the fans at our games because they sort of know what's going on but sometimes I have to remind the Cheerleaders when we are on offense and defense!  It has really been a learning experience for all of the people around here to embrace football.  This year they built two towers on each side of the field.  One is for the person taping the game for Coach and the other sides tower is for our wonderful game announcer Mary Cady...she kills it!

Cheerleader Treats!

Tonight should be an interesting match up...We are taking on the Hawks.  We should have beat them last year but because of a things out of our hands it didn't happen.  It was a great game and I am really looking forward to the rematch.  It's been a dark and dreary day Down East...but it's still a good day for football.  The babes has been chatting about it all week.  She gets so excited when there is a commercial for football on TV or when Coach is watching tape at the house.  Last night at the dinner she was so happy when the team came in and they had her jerseys on...Ya never know she could be the next female quarterback.  I love to see her so excited about something...

Some of the team pigging out!

Well...I suppose that is all for today.  Really hoping I come back tomorrow with a very happy post to update you on tonights game! This weekend looks like it might be pretty busy.  Coach says depending on how we play tonight, he might go and scout a game about 2 and 1/2 hours away.  Scouting high school football games? you say...oh yes, welcome to my world!  The babes and I are going to go to the Pirate Festival.  I can't wait to see the babes face when she sees the craziness!  And FINALLY NFL football is back on TV!!  I can't wait to watch the games this Sunday.  Haven't really given a thought to coaches meeting meal yet...maybe something will come to me tonight!!

Thanks for checking in and checking me out!