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Football Season — Is Your Schedule Set?

August 28, 2022

It’s that most exciting time of the year again! Every Fall in Aggieland presents all of us with one of the greatest gifts of all —a tabula rasa, or more commonly known as a “clean slate.” All the record books on the 22-23 season are reset to ‘0.’ This is 0 Losses at this point in the season and the possibilities for winning are unparalleled!

First up—Texas Aggie football begins this coming weekend! Kickoff on Sat. Sept. 3 is at 11 am and we’re hosting the Bearkats of Sam Houston.

Across from Kyle Field they’re putting final touches on the most exciting new tailgating spot and community visiting area for Aggies to gather before, during, and after games. It’s not quite finished yet but watch how fast it progresses this fall. If you don’t have your season tickets to the games yet, check out Stubhub for individual games and extra seats.

Fans can look forward to: “ Aggie Park ”! Think of it in terms of “an outdoor MSC” and a water source, landscaping galore, an outdoor amphitheatre and to go with it, a spectacular Kickoff Concert featuring headliner Robert Earl Keen ’78, with Max Stalling ’89, Julianna Rankin, ’18, and the Barn Dogs (’23-’25). Best of all, it’s a free concert. Register at this link.

Football in Texas begins every Thursday afternoon for the junior varsity, Friday afternoons and evenings for high school to share their skills on the varsity teams, Saturdays are for all the college games, and Sundays of course are for Pro football, with the occasional Monday and Thursday night lineup to work in.

The Bryan Vikings’ schedule is here.

For the Rudder Rangers’ schedule, click here.

The Allen Academy’s Rams’ schedule is here.

The St. Joseph’s Catholic Eagles schedule is here.

College Station Cougars’ play on this schedule here.

The A&M Consolidated Tigers’ play here.

The Normangee Panthers’ schedule is here.

The Navasota Rattlers’ schedule is here.

The Hearne Eagles’ schedule is here.

The Brenham Cubs’ schedule is here.

So, now that you know where some of our area youth are, don’t forget that they are also at soccer practice, golf practice, and countless other sessions that prepare kids for their future.

Life is so much like a sports competition. Everyone comes in with a clean slate; you have a chance to learn from adults and older teens willing to teach, you work hard to learn the rules of the game. Every week you reinforce what you learned before and add a new element in. Eventually you know all the plays.

You learn teamwork, getting along with people, even if they fail you. You give people a second chance. You learn to share credit and share responsibility. It’s all about team, all day, every day. These are just some of the life lessons that they will keep all of their lives. Character building begins when our young people learn competition sports.

So, every year is an opportunity to teach good behavior, being a good sport, and never giving up. The daily grind is a guarantee for success in their adult years. Get your team colors on and we’ll see you at the games this fall!

New Beginnings, Clean Slate Begin This New School Year

August 27, 2024
As longtime Brazos Valley residents know, we’ve been taking the back streets the past two weeks now, and until after the first home game traffic settles back, you can count on our staying there. The annual ritual of Back-to-School brings yet another 1500 Aggies to the community, much to the delight of local business owners, who survive the summer to reach the thriving days of fall and summer.

Olympic Times and Trials —What We Learn and Can Teach From Them

July 29, 2024
It’s an exciting first weekend we just experienced, with the opening of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France. The week of the Olympics landed in the midst of a very busy series of news cycles that document world events and daily news. Good and bad news abounds, everywhere you look it seems. You just have to pick and choose what you want to let into your day. Yet, it’s important to be aware of the world around us, because the earliest displays of the lessons we teach our children revolve around how we respond to the ups and downs of life.

Independence, Freedom, and Choices

July 4, 2024
This is the day when we break out the red, white, and blue décor and display our pride in being Americans with the rest of our community, same as we do every year at this time. Across the Brazos Valley some of our neighborhoods are staging their own parades and parents have helped their children decorate their bike handles with streamers. Sound systems are playing “The Stars and Stripes Forever” as a parade route forms. Pedal cars are moving into position behind the four- and five-year-old drivers maneuvering into position. Electric cars driven by Batman or John Deere III slide into view.

Why We Attend — The Value of a Visitation

July 1, 2024

The Love Wrapped Inside My Father’s Arms

June 16, 2024
Just looking at these two photos, separated by three decades, I’m overwhelmed to think of how it still just seems like yesterday that my dad was loading up the station wagon, ready to drive me and our soccer team all across the back roads of Texas as we competed across the state, trying our best to stand out.

Mother’s Day — A Promise of Remembrance

May 12, 2024
Of all the women in our lives, mothers certainly hold a position of supreme love and regard that often are set far above others we hold dear in life. Mothers are, frankly, our first very best friends and throughout life, others may come close but there’s a place that only they can hold dear in our hearts.

Who Will Be Your Informant (When the time comes)?

April 29, 2024
In the past few weeks, I’ve heard from high school friends that two of our classmates had died. This is not uncommon by itself, but the surprise came as I learned that one of our classmates had died two years ago, and another some three months ago. Yet, not one person we knew in common had known of their passing before now, so none of us who grew up together had any idea that we’d lost two “of our own.” That meant sorrow upon sorrow at the delay in learning of their passing.

Joy in the Morning: Easter Blessings for All

March 31, 2024
Just as excitedly as children rush from their beds on Easter morning to see what might be awaiting them in their Easter baskets from the Easter bunny, adults have reason to approach this blessed Sunday with similar enthusiasm. The promise of the memory of the stone that was rolled back, revealing an empty tomb brings to all of us the reminder that Christ rose from the dead and God took him back home to be with him. The victory of the resurrection is our guarantee as adults that we can celebrate each year.

Teaching Our Children About Holy Week — Introduction to Palm Sunday

March 24, 2024
Now that our son Rowen is two years old, Chelsea and I are beginning to introduce him to the elements of a regular church worship service that occur with regularity each year. True, one can only make a preliminary impression on a youngster with respect to helping him or her understand the rituals we as adults have grown up with, all of our lives. The occasion of Palm Sunday gives us a chance to help Rowen know that on Palm Sunday, we are going to be seeing everyone we know waving a large palm frond as we come into the church.

Social Media Footprints — Have You Planned for What Happens When You’re Not Here?

March 19, 2024
Over the years we’ve all become more friendly with social media, whether we’re texting our family and friends or whether or not we are adding a smiley face to the post of our latest grandchild playing a sport, and we share it on all our outlets too, because you know, we are proud!
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