Overtime: High school athletics in Connecticut

(Recent King graduate Silas Redd is in San Antonio this week for the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, the 10^th anniversary of the bowl. Past alumni of the bowl include the likes of Tim Tebow, Terrelle Pryor, Noel Devine, Mark Sanchez, Adrian Peterson and Reggie Bush. Redd who won the ‘G Award’ at Football University’s Top Gun this past June in Florida as the elite camp’s top offensive player. Redd, who is heading to Penn State, will be blogging about his week in San Antonio.)

I took a 7:30 a.m. flight from freezing cold Connecticut and was hoping to land in warm and sunny San Antonio. Unfortunately the weather here in San Antonio is reminding me way too much of Connecticut though. I’m hoping it gets a little warmer.

When I got to the hotel I was greeted by a lot of nice people, took pictures and checked in. Then I signed hundreds of autographs, which is such an honor for me. I still can’t believe people want my autograph sometimes, it’s pretty cool. Then we got our equipment and let me say we got a surprise for everyone with our cleats — they’re hot.

Practice went really well today. Our defense looks really good; there are a lot of great athletes on that side. Our offense is definitely going to be tough also; we’re still learning the offense right now though. For the East team we’re building a nice brotherhood and we all get along.

During lunch today, for example, Chris Martin threw an empty Gatorade bottle at one of our teammates, I won’t say who. It was all in good fun and everyone knows that Chris threw it except for the player that got hit. I guess if he reads this blog he’ll find out.