An Introduction

Some guys buy motorcycles.  Some guys get divorces.  Some guys get tattoos.  Me?  I'm live-tweeting high school football games.  For free. Follow me at @JMundyFballFri.

Welcome to my mid-life crisis.

Some brief history:  My step-daughter, Morgan, spent her Junior and Senior years as a varsity cheerleader at Parkland Magnet High School.  I thought this was a great idea, since it gave me plenty of excuses to get out of the house and watch sporting event...er, support my step-daughter.  As the basketball season heated up this past winter, I began to realize how much I enjoyed going to these prep sporting events.  I began to lament Morgan's imminent graduation and started thinking of ways to keep prep football and basketball as part of my weekly routine.

All hail the power of Twitter!  I sent a mass tweet offering my services for free to anyone needing assistance with 2012 football coverage.  Kenny Beck, the sports director at NBC affiliate WXII, accepted my offer and here I am.

Important Note:  I am not a WXII employee.  I am not compensated by the station nor do I wish to be.  I'm also not a professional sports journalist (if you haven't already figured that out).  My dossier includes one year of writing for UNCC's University Times,  a season working the video screens at the University of Tennessee, and a season volunteering with the now-defunct Charlotte Sting.  This was all a long, long time ago.

Simply put, I am a fan of the passion and energy that student-athletes bring to their respective tasks.  Only the top percent of the top percent will ever play sports at a higher level, so every game is life-and-death as Senior Night looms on the horizon.  I care nothing for recruiting, and know even less about it.  For instance, I watched Ja'Shawn Joyner of Reagan dismantle Glenn last week, and I have no idea whether he is college material or not.

I DO know that he and his troops opened up a can on a Glenn team stocked with some very good athletes.

At any rate, I'm aware that I may spend this entire season live-tweeting and blogging to an audience of 5.  I don't care.  This is an experiment.  I'm watching football- I win either way.

Anyhoo, I have to go.  After all, it's Finally Friday.

-John