Who knew? Six Man Football

A friend of mine does sports action photography on the side - but he is the real deal (this is one of his pics here). Anyway, he had a gig in Hico, TX recently: Hico Super Six Saturday, and he asked me to help with his booth. 10 teams, 5 games, 1 great day of six man football!

http://www.hicosupersix.com/
(he didn't do the pics that are on their site now, his site is www.endzonephoto.com)

I had no idea there was anything like this out there...six man football? The smaller teams made for an exciting game - lots of action - many players held both offensive and defensive positions. But there were more cheerleaders on the sidelines than there were players on the field! And where is the dance team? I say if they boys can hold dual posts then so can the girls! Cheerleaders put your pom pons down and put on some kicking boots for half time!

The band? Well, most of the teams brought HS band music in on a cd: it piped from the loud speakers to meet their spirited chants in the stands.

Turns out this Super Six Saturday is a big deal for the smaller schools that participate. The first game starts at 11am and the last at 8pm (this meant waking up at 5 to get there by 9am to setup and not getting home til after 1:30am Sunday morning--ARGH!) The event draws a decent sized crowd - lots of visitors from the surrounding area who don't even have kids came in to watch the games.

As usual I met interesting people; who doesn't love small town Texans? Super friendly & real. One of the guys who put together the event is an accomplished marketing genius (even won an Andy award) - I knew I'd like him when he got out of his Lexus in shorts, white socks with crocks, and of course, a cowboy hat. HA!

It was totally worth getting up early on a Saturday morning for -we had a great time and I got to see my first, fifth and likely last six man football game.