They take their youth sports seriously here in OK.

This week's Tulsa Urban Weekly, the local equivalent to the Chicago Reader, ran an article describing just how insane some folks around here are about youth sports, specifically football. You can find the article here. The article details the youth programs around the two most dominant football powerhouses in the state. It is fiercely competitive, even though these kids are six and seven.

On a personal note, I experienced some of the same dedication, but luckily without all of the driven competitiveness. Today, I signed Nick up for soccer at the Sapulpa Soccer Club. The club itself is part of USYouth Soccer. The club has some decent facilities, including some dedicated soccer fields and a bunker. We ordered his uniform, and once Nick gets on a team we just need to call in to the uniform store with his number. They'll put it on his jersey and shorts. Pretty cool.

When Nick played in Berwyn, we were lucky to get a t-shirt and we had to shoo the softball teams off the field. And if we stayed too long, baseball teams then shooed us off. So this level of interest and support is quite new to us.