Fourth Grade Football & Other Musings

It has been a while since any Browns have blogged, and I apologize for that. Our excuse? School and sports, and the activity that has taken up the most time has been football. When we first moved to Jackson, I wondered whether Sam would become a true Mississippi boy and play football, and it only took a year to get my answer. Whether I want it or not, Sam is a football player. His fate was sealed at the last game when he intercepted a handoff and ran in for the touchdown. It was an incredible heads-up play! The week before Sam's team had faced a team made up of "country boys" that wanted to beat the city boys of Jackson. And beat them they did, 30-0, sending our quarterback to the hospital after the second play of the game and leaving our remaining players crying in the huddle. They were big and scary ("corn-fed" is what the city Moms called these boys!) My son survived that game with a bruise the size of a dinner plate on his arm. Coached by two fathers that were former NFL players and a former Mississippi congressman, fourth grade football has been an authentic Mississippi experience!

Football has taken hold of our whole family and we enjoyed a trip down to New Orleans recently to the Superdome to see the Saints play. It was a lot of fun and very comfortable in the climate controlled indoor arena. However, as I sit here and type, Will and I are watching a pre-season NBA game so I know football fever cannot last; basketball is about to arrive and that's the true sport of the Brown family. Go Duke!

So what am I reading lately? Nothing, really--I have had a hard time sticking with a book. My next blog will get me back on track with my reading life.

Sam's Movie Recommendations

I have recently seen three new movies: Ghost town,What Happens in Vegas, and The Love Guru. Let's start with Ghost Town. I thought this movie was really good. Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear were really good. On the scale: 8. Next, What Happens in Vegas. This movie was not very good. I didn't think the idea for the movie was very good and they didn't make it work. On the scale: 4. Last but not least, The Love Guru. I thought this movie was very funny. It was a little stupid at the beginning, but it got better and better. On the scale: 6. More reviews to come. Sam