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Sunday Morning Coffee Thoughts: What Lurks in the Shadows
By Glen Dudasik
Last night I had the privilege of covering a sporting event I knew little about, from a team and league I’d never heard of even though it has been in the town for years. Lil and I went out to cover the Capital City Savages, Lansing’s all women’s tackle football team and had a blast. Great team, aggressive football all with a wild crowd behind them.
As a reporter you learn to listen to everything, and to keep your eyes open. I walked by the woman in the uniform, Savages extraordinaire Jessica Weeks, as she mentioned that she had a younger daughter. Two steps later I hear a sneaky squeaky squeal and see this little one bounding past me. I turn and I see her creep up on her Mom and stand in her literal shadow waiting for the moment to strike.
It was a beautiful example of the best of what life can be, and what the women of the Women’s Football Alliance go through. I watched them slam and pick and pivot and push and curse and destroy each other with a fervor and energy that was quite frankly - living up to Savages and Venom names they wore on across their chests. Then at the end of the game they took a deep breathe collected themselves and put the animosity aside. They all met mid field in a large group and walked away in a renewed kinship.
Then after all that, in this case with helmet in hand, they went back to their main roles such as being a Mom to a little girl who was standing in the shadows staring up at her hero.
-GD
Learn more about the Savages at capitalcitysavages.com
