We are geared up and ready for some FOOTBALL! The boys and I are sporting our favorite colors for the first Purple Friday! Since we are kicking off the season right I’m posting some of the pictures I snapped at training camp in July when I took Ham for Rookies Day. The Ravens are so awesome for providing their fans with up close access to the players and coaches. I really think it helped my little 4 year old flag football player to watch the big guys practice. It seems like he takes practice a little more seriously after watching Joe call off “Down, Set, Hut!”
Since he is still too small to get in “the pit” with the big kids we had to wait around on the sidelines for someone to spot us.
That someone was Jameel McClain. He had a group visiting training camp that day from Philly. Ham and I blended in with the high schoolers long enough to hear McClain tell the kids to “Never leave the field with regrets, go after every ball, try your best on every play.” He is so right, what a great message about football and life. When it came time for McClain to sign our ball Ham was off climbing on the bleachers, which to him was much more interesting than meeting #53.
After meeting McClain, Coach Harbaugh walked up to our end of the field. Ham really wanted to meet him- “because he tells Joe Flacco what to do!” He signed a few autographs and had to go without making it to our end of the line. Ham was devistated! I couldn’t believe it…he started to cry and a stranger offered him a signed Ray Rice photo but no he wanted to meet the coach. It totally broke my heart. He recovered quickly though when he saw a cheerleader and got the same silly look on his face as last year at training camp! I told him we will try to meet the coach another time. Maybe Pop Pop will play golf with him or something:)
If you haven’t been to training camp go next year. I’ve made it my Mommy day with Ham and G will go once he learns how to sit for longer than two seconds!
GOOOOO RAVENS!:)