A Little Something Different

Since you are a loyal Sofie, you have become accustomed to reading the interviews with your Senior Jackets. Today, I decided to flip that a little bit and interview one of our opponents this week from the Lone Grove Longhorns. I was able to track down No. 55 (I knew this because it was on his jersey, backpack, letter jacket, hat and girlfriend's tramp stamp) as he was leaving practice today.

El Commish: Hey! Hey! No. 55! El Commish here with the SofaKing sports blog, you got a minute?

No. 55: .... blank stare

EC: You with me there, bubba? Do you understand the words coming out of my mouth? You got a name?

No. 55: You don't look like a frog... heh heh heh

EC: Snappy comeback there, friend. I write for a sports BLOG. You know, short for Weblog. Kind of an online diary or magazine of sorts.

No. 55: Diaries are fer gurls... heh heh heh

EC: Snappy and sexist, you must get all the girls. So, do you have a name or will 55 suffice?

No. 55: No, I don't want no ice.

EC: Yeeeaaaahhhhh, ok. So, you have a game coming up with Kingfisher, what do you think about that?

No. 55: Uh, coach says we gonna play football real good.

EC: Ok, man... seriously, are you just messing with me now? There's no way you can be an eligible high school student judging by the way you attempt to communicate.

No. 55: I go to school every day. I've been a junior for 5 years now. One more and I get to be a teacher or maybe a lawn mower. I'm hopin' for lawn mower because they get to drive on those vroom vrooms a lot and kick up a lot of dirt.

EC: Dare to dream my brother, good for you. So, is this your girlfriend here?

No. 55: Heh, heh, yup we been goin' together since she was in kindy-garten and I was a freshman for the third time. Me and her's like peanut butter and jelly.

EC: Ahh, because she's nice and sweet and you're kinda nuts?

No. 55: No, we just like peanut butter and jelly sammiches.

EC: Well, it's good that you two have common interests. Tell me more about your football year, how did it go?

No. 55: I dunno. Coach just keeps sayin' he's getting too old to put up with all this junk all the time and how he should've listened to his mother and been a farmer.

EC: Ok, have you seen any tape on Kingfisher? What are you going to do to try to slow down Evans, Kennedy or Barton?

No. 55: We don't need no tape from Kingfisher. We got our own that we use to keep our shoes on.

EC: Oh ok. I've seen where some teams do that to stabilize the ankle as well as help keep your shoes on and keep them from getting untied, ha ha.

No. 55: I never could get how to tie shoes. I usually wear boots, thems a lot easier. (Lifts up his foot to show that he's wearing slides)

EC: Right, well I'm sure you have places you need to go and things to do, I mean those coloring books aren't going to color themselves, are they? I appreciate your time and good luck to you on Friday night.

No. 55: What's Friday night?

EC: Nevermind

Sofies, I don't see LG being much of a contest. I think that if Jax yells "Squirrel!" at the line, the defense will knock themselves over trying to catch it giving us a clear path to the end zone many times over. Leave a little early as traffic is usually a mess on I-35 and stop in at Jo's Famous Pizza in Purcell and tell them Ryan sent you. It's not as good as what you get at the Shed, located at 1505 S. Main in Kingfisher- great food, great friends, great times- but it's pretty good stuff.