Scrimmage Snapshots

Football teams from five cities visited Wisconsin Rapids today for the Rapids Raptors football scrimmage. There were nine fields and 19 teams so the format followed was that Carter's team for example, would scrimmage with a team for about 20 minutes, then rotate to another field and face another opponent for 20 minutes, and so on. Since there was an odd number of teams, each team would get a "bye" somewhere in there to rest.

Here are few snapshots of the day's action:

This photo makes Carter seem deceivingly big. It's just the camera angle folks. His uniform, in fact, is what was too big. He did end up exchanging his large pants for a pair of mediums. Which was good, because he claimed his pants were "distracting."


Carter split his time between playing noseguard and tightend. Here he is a "decoy" tightend. The ball was routed on the other side but decoys are important, too. (Plus moms like that they don't get hit as often.)

Carter talks strategy with his coach on the sideline. You can see the coach is focused on what's happening on the field. That's good. This was probably shot when Carter was telling him his game pants are too big.

See little Carter Austin lined up opposite their center (guy with the ball). You can see we were up against some larger teams. The good news for Carter is that by the end of the day, he had his game on. As he explained it (since I was working in the concessions stand and missed it), he grabbed the center and threw him down. Got to the running back and he and a teammate tackled him! He was very excited about that play. And we were pleased he ended the day on a high note -- not to mention only a handful of new bruises and no injuries!