Three Generations

September 26, 2009

Lois has two Bradleys. The one on the right is her son, Brad, age 48. The one on the left is her grandson, Bradley, age 15, and a Jr. Tackle member of the Oregon Hawks. The Oregon Hawks played the Morrison Colts at Morrison IL this morning and got blown away 26 - 8. Bradley and his friend thought the refs did a bad job but we could plainly see the Morrison team was much bigger than the Oregon boys who played well.

Thanks to Scott’s generosity, we used his car to drive the 82 miles to Morrison. We left at eight A.M. and got there by 9:30 A.M. The game started at ten. Jr. Tackle has nine-minute quarters and uses the two-point conversion, because the kickers haven’t had the experience to be accurate about the point after between the goal posts. Brad explained the game to us as we watched. This was the first time in 40 years that Lois observed a school game since Scott played at Rock Valley College. [Brad was a fine baseball player, but never played school football.]

Morrison got four touchdowns (24) one two-point conversion. The first two touchdowns were in the early minutes of the first quarter. They came into this game at 4 - 2 for the season and now are 5 - 2. Oregon answered in the second quarter with a touchdown and a two-point conversion. They came into the game at 5 - 1 and now are also 5 - 2.

Bradley’s name was mentioned several times during the game for making tackles. He was also on the receiving end of kickoffs for the first time this season. He played on the line for both offense and defense and, except for a minute or two, played the whole game.

It was good to visit with these two Bradleys -- a father-son team who live together in Pop and Gram’s old house. For the last year or so these two have worked out a good routine in their daily living which allows them both to spend lots of time together.