GV Football - Covid version

Garnet Valley football finished their abbreviated regular season Central League schedule tonight with an away game at Haverford.

We won handily 39-8, against a previously undefeated Haverford team, on their field. I watched the game streaming on YouTube since we don't go to away games this year (the band as a whole, or us personally). The livestream announcers were the Haverford folks, and they kept saying throughout the course of the game how the game was much closer than the score. I would argue that after Haverford scored once early in the game...the game pretty much was the score.

One more TD to go...

This was on the heels of wins of 42-6 (Lower Merion), 68-6 (Conestoga), 46-6 (at Upper Darby), and 44-0 (Ridley). Boy, that Ridley shutout felt good. So we finished the season 5-0, with a combined score of 239-26 (an average of 47.8 to 5.2). To Haverford's credit, our 39 points scored was a season low. And their 8 points scored on us was a season high against us. We never gave up more than one score in a game. OK, yeah, I'm gloating a bit...

This gives us a quick-turnaround playoff game Wednesday night, at home, against Marple Newtown. The game will be jammed in before Thanksgiving and the anticipated super-spreader family events. Win, lose, or draw, this will be the end of GV football 2020, and therefore also GV marching band 2020. There will be no extended playoffs as usual.

It isn't normal by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a small touch of normal, and that alone is worth something. It's worth a lot, actually.

On a personal note, this means that Grace gets one more game to march with the band, on the field, in her clarinet section. Next year, with luck, she will be elevated from Field Major to Drum Major, and Drum Majors don't march on the field. As excited as she is about the prospect of being a Drum Major, she is sad at the other implications of what this means. The clarinet section has been important to her throughout her high school years.

Sigh...

How did we get here so fast?