Turkey Tournament. Six Youth teams, three from Tampa and three from Clearwater/St Pete, Occasionally, teams from out of state.
My favorite of all time was the last Championship game on a Sunday. 14-16 year olds. We saw an expensive tour bus roll into the parking lot, followed by a group of cars. Team unloaded ..... couldn't help but think ...those rich kids are about to get their hats handed to them by a group of gang members from St Pete. Then the announcer made the tour bus use understandable.
"Entering the stadium from the north endzone, is the Panama Sharks. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is not Panama City, Panama the country."
The most well disciplined, most coached youth team we ever saw. I worked Umpire for that game ...Cadence in Spanish. The linemen would open massive holes ....running back tackled ....the running back and linemen would jump to their feet and help the St Pete kids to their feet and say "Great tackle" "Great block" Late in the third quarter when the second leg was broken and trailing 56-0, the St Pete Coach packed it in.
The Panama Coach ad I talked for a while ....they had entered this tournament to get some practice time under their belt before joining teams from the northern and southern hemisphere to play a tournament at Disney World.
