I had the privilege of attending the high school football game between Oak Grove and the Alisal Trojans, a team from Monterey, last night. Let's look at the highlights.

$5? You got to be kidding me. That's like a whole day's worth of food!

Seats available! Apparently, the opponent was not well-known enough to attract a large crowd. Plus, about half of the people there were milling around the snack shack or smoking weed under the bleachers.

The football game was mildly exciting. Like almost all high school football teams in the area, all they want to do is run. But Oak Grove quickly makes their few passes count, running up the score to 21-0 at halftime.

Now the reason I was there: band and colorguard. If you've never read this blog, highly possible and likely, my sister is on the colorguard this year, surprising for this family who mostly stayed away from the performing arts. The program this year is Niagara Falls. Appropriately, the colorguard costumes consist of raincoats and paddles. With the occasional missteps and forgetting to twirl the flag a couple of times, she did reasonably well. I taped the whole fiasco, so if anyone wants to come over, they can come and see it.

I took guesses to see how many times she would drop her flag earlier this month. They've ranged from 1 time to 10 times. So, finally the correct answer is ... ZERO. My sister did not tell me that she wouldn't be making any attempts at throwing her flag in the air until after her performance last night. So apologies to everyone who was expecting their guess to be right.

Soon after, the game started again and all the home Eagles wanted to do was run out the clock. The crowd passed the time by watching two little boys playing a little game of tackle football of their own. Every tackle made was followed by a loud ooo or ahhh from the crowd.

The snack shack has a name! Mr. Barbata, the CS teacher, technology coordinator, and announcer, kept making references of stopping by Julio's Cantina. But don't let the Mexican reference fool you, they sell burgers, hot dogs, cup o' noodles for the cold night along with their nachos and tacos. It's so good, according to Mr. Barbata, that it's the number one high school snack shack in the country. I think people will be spending eternity to find a source for that, if they bother to search in the first place.

Tonight's attendance: a very small 2,105. Final score: Oak Grove 35, Alisal 16.