I know we flood everyone with emails, and you answer the call each time.  Our boys have been treated well with the pasta dinners, some how it always just comes together and becomes the most appreciative meal for the team.
  Well, as this season is coming to a close, I have been asked to write you one more time to reflect upon the past 4 years for our seniors.  Those of you who are moving closer and closer to senior year, you too will find both joy and sadness as the end of the season draws near.
  Freshman year our boys stepped on to the field in August that summer; some were friends from grade school and some were total strangers.  The rivalry they experienced on the field representing their respective grade schools, now was to become one team – a high school team.  A team that would project pride, courage, and camaraderie through thick and thin, the senior boys of today immediately bonded in a friendship to last through all four years.  They immediately became one unit – a unit which stays together on and off the field.  Through each win or loss they held their heads high, they comforted each other and rejoiced with each other.  Defeat may have presented itself on the scoreboard, but defeat was not in their hearts; for each game they learned to be a little stronger and a little wiser, their dedication to the team was ever evident both on and off the field.  Their friendships formed in freshman year helped guide them to be a stronger team by senior year.
  I can remember sending my son to football camp freshman year, he already had a shaved head, but bald was now the new word to describe his head when he returned.  It was football camp that brought these boys to the everlasting friendship that exists today.  I can only tell you how rewarding it is to watch your boy on the field freshman, sophomore, and junior years and then as a senior watch how he has matured in sport and self as young man.  Tears come to my eyes just thinking about coming to the close of the season.
  As parents, we have adopted all the boys as our own, when they step on the field they become ‘MY boys’.  We cheer each one down the field, we cringe each time someone is lying on the field, and say a Hail Mary for him to get up unharmed.  I can only tell you, that it has been one fantastic experience.
  As time draws close, even though they will be going in separate directions I know these boys will remain friends through the years.  Should one or all find themselves on a college football team they will be cheering each other on to victory.  And wow, look at all the tickets they will need to secure should one go pro.
  All the games, all the pasta dinners, all the snack stand hours, the fund raising, sitting in the stands in the rain or bundled up in just about everything you own, washing those muddy uniforms, scrubbing the grass stains; every one is a memory you share with your son.  May God grant you many memories, may the four years we all experience be as rewarding for you as it has been for all of us.  May the friendships formed through a pigskin, a 100 yard field, and 2 goal posts remain forever, both for KKCHS Wolverine players and for the Wolverine Team Parents.
  I would like to say, it has been my pleasure to meet and get to know both teams.  Our boys have grown into men before our eyes, time passes so quickly, and yet I am honored to have been a part of this experience.   I hope all the underclass parents find the ‘football experience’ as fun and as rewarding as the senior parents.  We will miss you and we will continue to cheer you onto victory in our hearts. 

May God Bless you.
Go Blue, Go Gold!

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***SPECIAL NOTICE***
  Chick-fil-A in Audubon, PA., located at: 680 South Trooper Road, will be having a benefit on Saturday, January 19. Ten percent of the Total Sales for that day will be donated to the "Giongo Fund" to help pay for the future education and other needs of these three brothers. Let's not let the giving season be over just yet. These boys need an angel. Chick-fil-A in Audubon is open for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner from 6:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Please come out and show your support for this family, and tell a friend!

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