Friday night football

This is a great time of year for a sports lover like me. My two favorite sports, baseball and football, overlap. Little League has its World Series, MLB teams are fighting for the playoffs, and all the football leagues are getting started. This includes high school football season that starts tomorrow night.

Riddle me this: If you have a choice between walking 15 minutes across the street or driving two hours through LA traffic to go to a high school football game, which one would you pick? If you’re me, you hop in the car to watch your alma mater, Reseda Charter Regents.

What about the one across the street, El Toro? I went once with our daughter when she was young, and we were new to the area. I thought it would be fun for her to see the school she would go to (and eventually graduate from). She wasn’t interested in the game, but we happened to go on homecoming night. She was into princesses at the time, so she loved seeing the homecoming queen with her tiara and gown.

I didn’t go to El Toro games when our kids went there for the same reason my mom didn’t go to Reseda games. No teenager wants to be anywhere near their parents. It mortifies them. If you have to drive them somewhere, park as far away as possible, don’t make yourself conspicuous, and whatever you do, don’t talk to their friends (especially crushes).