Marcus L Wright ~Football~

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Part ONE
We are preparing to go watch San Antonio Reagan hopefully roll all over Austin Westlake in Buda in the UIL High School Playoffs this afternoon and while trying to find directions to the stadium in the Austin newspaper, I realized that whoever the writers are assume people already know WHERE to go.  I didn't but now, thanks to a little Internet research I did, you can find directions to all the stadiums in Texas.
 
I went to the same game last year during the playoffs and watched some sorry officiating (I think the refs cheated).  Hopefully this game they will be better.
 
I just envisioned Coach Raven excitedly running down the sideline as my close friend Waymon Clark was bolting to a score in 1970.  Waymon went on to play for Oklahoma, got into trouble and kicked out of school.  He was arguably the best player from Austin not counting John Harvey and Herman Alexander.
 
Man, those were the days and everytime I see Marcus run, I think back to those powder blue times with reverence and sadness that the days and most of my friends are long gone.

Part TWO
We went to the game and although our team won, we still had to drive home to Austin with the losers.  The final score was 34-27 with Marcus scoring 4 touchdowns and tallying 295 yards including a 91 yard scamper.   
 
I don't think the Westlake fans knew what hit them even though I know the players did.
 
We sat in the stands next to #82 Jake Wilker's parents.  Westlake was mounting a comeback with the help of the officiating crew and kicked an on-side kick.  #82 had the "good hands" to cap off the day and everyone on our side was happy.
 
The SA paper vs the Austin paper.  The Austin writer got Wilker's name wrong and the SA writer got Marcus' statistics wrong... what else is new?  It even says on the SA Newspaper website for statistics that Marcus' longest run was 65 prior to today but I saw him break off a 79 yarder early in the season and it never has been corrected.  Everyone assumes it's a typographical error but because it has never been corrected, the error becomes the rule, a misnomer.
 
People make mistakes... like the UT and A&M recruiters by not considering Marcus and letting him escape to Tulsa, Oklahoma.  People make mistakes and that's why Marcus is going to Tulsa when he ought to be staying closer to home winning a Heisman and some national championships for UT.  This really reminds me of how the Houston Texans dissed Vince Young...  We all know THAT was a mistake by the Texans.
 
Bad refs~There was also the instance when Reagan scored and they gave the points to Westlake and it took the crowd to get the crew to change it back right.  A bunch of holding calls against Reagan and none until the last quarter against Westlake.  It was such poor officiating  regarding Westlake that when they finally called a penalty the crowd started chanting "It's about time."

But hey... We won anyway despite the poor officiating which according to THIS article isn't rare.

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