Touchinhg my heart today

Sometimes I blog because I feel like I am supposed to and I need to because maybe just maybe someone is waiting to read who I will pick in a high school football game or who I may put in my best players in the area list.
Today I blog because I write when I have feelings that need to come out, and sometimes writing is very therapeutic for me.
I write in respect for everyone who has been affected by the death of Dylan Thomas.
I can't even begin to count the number of high school football games I have seen over the past 45 years but I am sure it is many more than the average sports fan. I have been blessed to get to see many games over the last 10 years on the sideline, which is 100% my preferred place to watch. I have often been told that it would be much simpler to watch and write about the game from the press box, but that never suited me. I loved being on the field, where you could feel the raw emotions of the players who needed a win and the coaches who have to have a win.I did not personally know Dylan Thomas, but I feel like I have known hundreds of young men just like Dylan Thomas, kids who loved the game of football and just wanted to play.
 I have often talked to the trainers on the sidelines during the game who do their best to keep the players as healthy as possible.
I first heard about the injury to Dylan Thomas on Friday night on Twitter and it sounded very serious at the time. My first thoughts went towards the parents who had sent their son to play in a football game and never got to talk to him again. I thought about the other players who had to watch a player from their team, probably a best friend to many of them, get carried off the field in a situation that they knew was dire. I thought of Peach County, the team that Dylan Thomas was playing against that night and about how bad they must have felt. I mean someone hit this kid that night and knocked him down and how terrible a thought was that for whoever that player was.
I also thought about the coaches from Pike County and how hard that must have been for them. Evidently Dylan Thomas was knocked out of the game early and went back in before passing out on the sideline. Obviously they would not have put him back in the game if the had any inkling of how bad he was injured, or even injured at all. I don't know this but I am guessing Dylan Thomas, who weighed 150 pounds, was begging to go back into the game and he had clearance from the trainers to go back into the game.
Lastly I think about the trainers on the field. I think every high school team travels with trainers and they have the decision to let a kid back in a game or not. I have seen kids begging to get back in a game and the trainers saying no. I have asked trainers straight up about the worst injuries they have ever had to deal with and most of them involve a blown out or broken leg. They see concussions every day and every game and the protocol is fairly advanced. But on this Friday night, the injury was much worse, and those trainers will never forget Dylan Thomas
I pray for the EMTS who probably had to deal with an injury they may have never seen before and I am sure everyone did everything they could to save this young mans life. Sometimes however it is just not meant to be. Football is a violent sport and sometimes accidents happen. It does not make the outcome easier to deal with , but  Dylan Thomas will not be forgotten.
Pike County is 4-1 on the year and I do not know what their plan is for the rest of the year, but I am betting they will be back on the field for another game very soon. I saw a video of one of the Pike County captains and he said that Dylan would want them to keep playing.
God Bless every one of those kids and everyone who was a part of a terrible Friday night.
Lets all pray for safe Fridays to come
Rest in Peace Dylan Thomas