Black Friday.
As I drove my daughter to work at 11pm Thanksgiving day, I couldn't help myself from shaking my head in disbelief.
The Walmart parking lot was so full that all you could see was red lights glowing from all the cars stagnate looking for parking spaces which were not existent. Down the line Target, Old Navy, Bath and Body Works, Kohl's, people were in their LAWN CHAIRS lining up waiting for stores to open up.
My daughter said when they finally opened the doors to let people in where she works, people were Running in!
I couldn't help but shake my head in disbelief.
Fast forward one week to the next Friday. I took my daughter to catch some girls High School Basketball action at Paul Taylor Fieldhouse where the NISD Basketball Tournament was under way.
A lot of the top teams in the city were participating so I was anxious to see some great action. Defending Region IV champs, Reagan, young talented reloaded Wagner, highly skilled Johnson, extremely athletic Judson, multi-talented Stevens and Brennan, fundamental and well coached Amarillo were some of the teams participating.
As we were watching a semifinal game, one Parent was so upset that he started yelling at his daughter to get off the court and sit down on the bench because he didn't like what the coach was doing. What was weird is that I couldn't figure out which Coach he was upset with, his own team's coach or the opposing coach.
I shook my head in disbelief.
But that only bought my attention to this. You have the majority of the City's premier teams participating in one location. Yet the stands were empty with fans. You had more players and coaches from the teams waiting to play than actual fans in the Stands!
I couldn't help but shake my head in disbelief.
Where is the support for the young ladies? Somehow I felt it translated into how the teams played.
Somehow the day transformed into my own definition of how I felt......
my very own.... Black Friday.
Go Support Girls High School Basketball!