Ballgame over! Wildcats win! Wink 35 Tornillo 8, another football season in Wink is in the history book! You likely won’t see the score on ESPN, but the event is very important nonetheless.  For some student athletes it is the beginning of off-season training or another sport, but for the nine seniors it is the end of an era.  It is the last time they will be the boys being sent out to fight for their town, their school, their teammates and themselves. Try as they might, I think they are too young to truly cherish or treasure this last game, so I will try to do it for them.  Many will spend the rest of their lives trying to equal the competitive zeal and the sense of camaraderie that they shared on the football field, but that is not a bad thing.  Football will provide the memory of what it feels like to passionately pursue a purpose.  They can apply that memory to prepare, practice and leave it all on the field to the game of life.  For those who learn those football lessons, life challenges will seem less daunting and wins and the losses will be viewed with greater perspective.  I also have one more bit of good news.   In thirty or forty years, they will remember the game, the friends, the fans, the coaches and the lessons through the richness of life experience and appreciate the fullness of the blessing of football lessons.