{"id":1803,"date":"2010-06-18T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T23:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:51:00","slug":"my-world-cup-of-fathers-day-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/my-world-cup-of-fathers-day-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"My World Cup of Father’s Day Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, how I wish I had a picture of my dad in his old soccer referee uniform. The one that hadn’t fit for more than fifteen years, but he put it on anyways when his team needed a rally.<\/p>\n

My dad had a way of diving in and making our interests his own. When we got into theater, he started quoting Shakespeare, and kept doing so long after we had moved on to other pursuits. Football? Football!? Once my brothers started playing football, my dad became a famous football fan in our town – the guy with the moose gooser<\/a> – a cannon he lugged from game to game and fired off when ever the Palmer High School Football Team, the Palmer Moose, scored a point.<\/p>\n

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And yes, when we started playing soccer, he got into that sport as well. He helped with coaching city league teams, and eventually trained and certified to become a city league soccer referee. My dad wasn’t just a sports fan, he referred to himself as an “athletic supporter.” Of course, he couldn’t say that without snickering.<\/p>\n

Years later we had all moved on, but Dad still quoted Shakespeare and dragged the moose gooser to all the Palmer games. And when the US Women’s team made it to the last round of the worlds cup a decade or so ago (And WON!), my dad was right there cheering them on. I went to visit my parents and found him dressed up in that old, fifteen years too small soccer referee uniform watching the game and yelling at the TV screen. But it didn’t stop there, he even flashed a yellow card at the screen.<\/p>\n

I miss you dad.<\/p>\n

What makes the dad in your life different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, how I wish I had a picture of my dad in his old soccer referee uniform. The one that hadn’t fit for more than fifteen years, but he put it on anyways when his team needed a rally. My dad had a way of diving in and making our interests his own. 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