Happy Father's Day!

[Catfish]

To all my fellow Gooners that are also Dads or future Dads (your wife is expecting), I salute you. Raise a pint, you deserve it.
Have a great Father's Day...even if it is a made up Hallmark holiday.


I know that I am going to a cookout and I just happen to be the one of the only Dads attending.

Many drinks will be had be all.

[jatm516]

We've got some of the greatest guys on this forum. To all you dad's I know on here...Cam, Coach, Catfish, Billyho, Bighorn, GG, and those that I missed on the list, have a great holiday!

[jegerpenge]

Except that Father's Day is tomorrow.

[Catfish]

Except that Father's Day is tomorrow.
Always with the negative vibes.....lol.

I know that, but I know I will be gone all day.
Just wanted to mention it now.....go easy man.

[fedwood]

this is the most underrated holiday
if you are lucky you get a "Happy fathers day" and a new handkerchief or underpants
they put too much emphasis on mothers day and forget about the dads

p.s its first sunday in september in Australia

[Mattbro]

Except that Father's Day is tomorrow.

Yeah but thanks to Catfish for the heads-up anyway. Father's Day is a different day in Europe, so it's always 50-50 whether I'll forget or not (my dad lives in the States).

[TheImposter]

[Blinding fatherly pride]And today, the day between my birthday and father's day, my 11 year-old son, who just went through the yearly tryouts for his club and was knocked down from the top team to the second level team, scored three goals and had an assist in two games playing in a tournament with a team cobbled together from 3 or 4 different teams on 3 days notice. No, FFS, I guess he's just not skilled enough to play with the actual good kids.[/Blinding fatherly pride]

[fedwood]

if it makes you feel better its more fun playing in the 2nd to top level when your a kid
i joined late one year so they put me in the 2nd top team
you get to dribble by yourself and ignore the other players coz they suck and you score all the goals

[TheImposter]

if it makes you feel better its more fun playing in the 2nd to top level when your a kid
i joined late one year so they put me in the 2nd top team
you get to dribble by yourself and ignore the other players coz they suck and you score all the goals
Actually, half the team was dropped a level, and they brought other guys up. Because of results in the spring season the two teams will probably play in the same division in the fall, so we'll meet head to head. Our mission is clear.

[jatm516]

More experience! I'm telling yoiu Imposter, first team is just a bunch of glory hunters, and who puts little league footie on their resume? **************s! Go get em!

[Catfish]

this is the most underrated holiday
if you are lucky you get a "Happy fathers day" and a new handkerchief or underpants
they put too much emphasis on mothers day and forget about the dads


I got a book (Perilious Times: Free Speech in Wartime), CD (Coldplay's X + Y),
I have been interested in both items. Plus I got a framed picture of my 3yo daughter's artwork. Good times......I love my gifts.

P.S. My Dad once said to me 1/2 serious 1/2 in jest, you always know for sure who your mother is, but you really "never" know for sure who your father is....lol. He said this right after my daughter is born, meaning yeah we saw the child come from the mother and you can figure out the rest.

[surfcam]

Thanks for the comments Ash!! Hope all the rest of you Dad's have a good day. Unfortunately I have to a lot of driving and visit my inlaws, but we did get 2 kid-free days to hang out with friends and go to a wedding!!!

Imposter, I'm sure your kid will kill em in 2nd team and be back up soon enough!!!!

[Gunner Phan]

Happy Dad's day you guys...thankfully, I don't have to give wishes to myself yet....enjoy your day!

[TheImposter]

I was up at 6:00 for an 8:00 a.m. game in this tournament that nobody expected to be in. The boys went down 2-1 to a team with the most obnoxious parents I've ever seen -- everything that is wrong with American youth sports. The Boy did well, though, making some great saves in goal (gave up their first to a kid who was absolutely unmarked), then setting up our only goal with a quickly taken throw-in. No gifts for me, at least not on the day (same thing for my birthday on Friday) -- we're doing some remodeling, so we've recently picked up a 42" plasma HD monitor, a home theater system, two couches, new carpet, getting the fireplace covered with "cultured stone", getting some book cases built. So no other gifts for anybody for a while.

I'm actually not bummed at all about Imposter Jr. going down, as he'll be playing for a coach we really like, and some of the kids we really like from the old team are also going down. I think they'll be quite competitive. My daughter, who is entering the program as a U-8, has been asked to play up as a U-9 (she's only 11 days late for being an official U-9 anyway) in order to fill out a second team, so I figure that will be a good experience for her, then she'll play with her regular age-group next year. I tell you, it's a lifestyle, especially when it's also baseball/softball season. And then there's gymnastics for the girl, which is year-round -- at least she hasn't gotten to the competitive level in that yet, and I'm praying she chooses the team sports over going farther with gymnastics. I have no need to sit in a hot, stuffy gymnasium every weekend, spending all day long sitting around in order to see my own kid perform for a total of about 2 and half minutes.

Best of the day to all the rest of you dads, and up the Gooners!

[Epikoinos]

For my first father's day (my daughter is 6 months old), I got season five of The Simpsons on DVD to add to the first four.

To quote Homer, WOO-HOO!

[mad theory]

i would just like to say congrats to thierry for the birth of his daughter tia(spl?)

[Claus KJ]

i would just like to say congrats to thierry for the birth of his daughter tia(spl?)

Her name's Tea. Perhaps not the best name ever if you're living in an English speaking country really.

KJ

[Coach_McGuirk]

My day was rather depressing. The squid has a rainout makeup game coming this Tuesday, so he and I didn't spend Father's Day together for the first time in his life.

He called me tonight to ask if it was OK for him to give me my Father's Day card when I get there next Saturday. Just about made me cry...

Anyway, he has to finish baseball, because he quit when he played 2 summers ago (his mom signed him up) and this year he asked to play, so I told him he had to finish no matter what since quitting would let the team down.

He's sticking it out like a trooper, but I sure wish he and I were at a hotel in Vicksburg right now, like we should be, him all wound up from sucking back a million cokes in the backseat of the car, laughing at my dad when he takes his dentures out, and asking me what time we'll go to the battlefield in the morning.

sigh.....

[jatm516]

Awww Coach. that sucks. Good for you though for keeping him on track even though it was at your own expense. Now that's a great dad. Here's a father's day card for ya.

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[Coach_McGuirk]

Danke'

Sorry to say but I'm taking the Southern route on Friday, so no need for you to be waiting by the roadside with a case of Red Bull for me... :)

We will be having lunch at The Varsity in Atlanta on Sunday on the way back to Texas. Man, I can't wait!! And Monday morning we'll be doing a short tour of the battlefield in Vicksburg, followed by a short side trip to the Confederate cemetary in town to put a few Texas flags out. Bryson is convinced that this time he'll see ghosts since he heard that people have claimed to see ghosts at Gettysburg, so if anyone comes wafting up out of their grave I'll snap a pic for everyone....

Vicksburg was the site of my all-time favorite question that he has ever asked me: "Daddy, is this where the good guys shot the bad guys??" (We were standing at an artillery placement that the Union used. I told him he'd have to figure out who the "bad guys" were for himself. Needless to say that when I told him that there very well may have been boys from Texas crossing the field into the cannons range he quickly decided where his loyalties lie! :) )

Side Note: He told his mom this week that "there's not anything fun in North Carolina like there is in Texas, and at least there my dog gets to sleep in my bed...". Got to love the tyke!