Sports in October 2016

While contemplating the content of this post, I thought about reverting back to the 2015 year in review style of one post covering a month.  But I decided against it probably mostly for the sake of consistency.  Meaning the rest of the 2016 posts weren't like that so why should these ones be?  But to try and power through the rest of 2016, I will combine a few events per post.  But don't worry...they're related.  Not very closely, but related nonetheless.  For example this post is about events in October that have to do with sports.  Genius.  Ha.

We begin with a photo of cute Jim at his soccer game on a Saturday in October.  My parents were out of town so I got to take him.  This is proof that I did my job.  :)

This picture was not taken in October 2016, but probably sometime in 1998 or so.  I was in second grade so older than Jim was in his picture.  But it was on my phone camera roll right above Jim's so I thought I'd include it for posterity.  This was the only year I ever played soccer.  The team was called the Polar Bears.  I distinctly remember voting for our team name and I voted for the Oreos.  You must admit, that name much better matched our colors.  Fun fact: I thought that the ball had to touch the net of the goal to be considered a goal.  False.

Fast forward a few weeks from Jim's soccer game and we went to Utah for Brad's grandpa's funeral.  While we were there we also went to the Mississippi State @ BYU game.  BYU won in double overtime.  Definitely got our money's worth.  I'll admit I had to look back at the game summary to figure out who we played and how we won.  While doing so I watched the highlights...boy, I miss exciting BYU football games.  Here's hoping to 2018 is a lot better than 2017 as far as BYU football is concerned.  :)