BC Junior Football

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Where to Find Junior Football in Vancouver BC

Posted on by Tyrone Ward

Have you been looking for Vancouver junior football? There are many leagues in Vancouver that you can quickly find online. One of the most popular leagues is the Canadian Junior Football League where Vancouver has a great team. There’s also the Vancouver Football Club with football for youth. Keep looking around because you’re bound to get your kid into a program, or find games to cheer for. One thing that’s possible with today’s social media, too, is easily making your own junior football events. Stay motivated out there, and stay tuned because soon I’ll share how I think someone motivated could easily start a new regular junior football tournament in Vancouver BC using social media!

Best of luck playing out on the field!

Is Moss Growing on Your BC Football Field?

Posted on by Tyrone Ward

Today I’m going to share a neat story and at the end I’ll expand on how this turned into a move idea.

I just had a chat today with a kind fellow in Vancouver BC while visiting a friend there. We were in the coffee shop when he noticed my son had a football. He rubbed his forehead, seemingly after a long day, and told me he had been planning to play football with his own kid today but his local park had moss all over the field. Therefore, he had spent most of the day removing the moss instead of playing football and he got very frustrated. He was in Vancouver for his late shift and his son never got to play. Not knowing what to do next, because in the process of removing the moss he had made the field even worse so they couldn’t play tomorrow, he asked me if he and his kid could play with me and mine wherever we were going to play next. I told him sure, because he seemed kind enough, and our kids got along together great.

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I wasn’t satisfied by just letting this guy play football with us though. I wanted to help him more, and solving his moss problem turned into a mystery game for me, as I began to interview him and find ways to solve his problem. He said, because he can’t drive, he’s limited to that one park by his house because there’s no other parks around where he lives in Surrey BC, not in short walking distance anyways, and his son is too young to walk super far. He said the city hadn’t been maintaining the small field that used to be used for soccer. The field gradually turned into a patch of weeds, and local folks maintained it the best they could for sports out of free will. This mystery was on it’s way to being solved when I began to recommend moss removal companies like Vancouver Moss Removal or for him to research the best way to maintain and control moss on grass lawns himself. He loved the idea of the moss company but wanted the city to pay for it, as no one in his neighborhood, especially him, would want that responsibility. It wouldn’t be fair.

Months later, after playing football with him a few more times, he called me up on the phone to tell me his moss mystery problem had been solved for good. After enough of his neighbors had mailed the city asking for them to maintain their sports field, a crew came into fix it up and now they plan to maintain it regularly. Good news for our friend in Surrey BC!

As you know, moss problems are pesky things and I thought I’d share this story because it shows the solution. If you can’t remove the moss on your sports field alone, there’s support out there. Either private professionals or the very city itself can help you. You’re not alone. I will certainly remember this if my field or the ones I visit are covered in moss. The moss isn’t good for football because it trips your feet up when it grows unevenly. If the whole field was just one even plain of moss though that would be fine, but if doesn’t like to grow that way!

How This Moss Mystery Problem Turned Into a Movie Idea

I really liked this story because not only was a problem solved and a new friendship made but it would also be cool in a movie if it was made on a larger scale. I love football movies and we need more of them (click here to see my favorite one) and I’ll tell you more about my idea for one now. If there was football players in the ghetto who couldn’t play and escape their rough lives with sports because their local field is dilapidated, they could fight against the city to get it repaired and in the process of fighting legally for what they want they realize they have the power to stop being criminals. They play football while also becoming lawyers, politicians and bankers. I think that would be a great emotional movie, especially if you had a lot of awesome football games in it. Feel free to steal that idea and use it because I’m not a movie producer. I just want to watch it!

I hope you like this story and learned how to solve your football field moss problem if you didn’t know how already!

Learning from the Big Boys

Posted on by Tyrone Ward

When I was a junior, my father used to say the only way to learn football besides doing it was to watch it. I since learned you can read about it too, which is what this blog is for, but today I want to stress the point of watching it. If you’re a young boy or girl who dreams of being a football star but you’re yet too young to play, I recommend watching football with an eye to learn. The reason I say “eye to learn” is because there’s more than one way to watch this majestic sport. Most people watch it for entertainment, maybe because they already know a lot about it, but when you watch it for the sake of learning it’s also entertaining at the same time, especially because learning is such a positive thing!

Learning how the pros play, how they keep their heads up and move their feet, will give you an advantage on the field. The big boys have a lot to teach, and you can learn a lot just by grabbing some popcorn and sitting on the couch. If you’re parents watch football than you’re already set. All you got to do is watch it with them, and don’t be scared of asking them questions. If your dad watches football there’s a good chance he’ll be able to answer many of you’re questions.

I know one guy who also plays football video games. Though you might be able to learn a few things from this over long periods of time, it’s much better, in my opinion, to watch the real thing because it’s faster and, well, real. And when I say learn from the big boys, I literally mean that, because if you just go to a junior football game you’ll see many mistakes as these boys are still apprentices. When you learn from the pros there’s much more to see. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t attend a junior football game. It can be really fun.

So that was today’s advice. I hope you got some motivation and we’ll see you next time!