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5-at-10: Back to school means football, stadium sign-off, LIV and learn

FILE - Georgia head coach Kirby Smart before Georgia's spring NCAA college football game, Saturday, April 16, 2022, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/Brett Davis)
FILE - Georgia head coach Kirby Smart before Georgia's spring NCAA college football game, Saturday, April 16, 2022, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/Brett Davis) FILE - Georgia head coach Kirby Smart before Georgia's spring NCAA college football game, Saturday, April 16, 2022, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/Brett Davis)

Kicking off school

Busy morning at the 5-at-10 compound.

Our oldest started high school; our youngest started middle school. Breakfasts, lunches, coffee, juice, a teary-eyed Mrs. 5-at-10 because “it’s all going so fast” and, well, you get the idea.

(Side note: If the Mrs. had heard Kenny Chesney’s “Don’t Blink” on the car ride home, it would have created a waterworks akin to Ray Kinsella asking his dad for a catch in Iowa combined with Sally Field pulling the plug on Shelby in “Steel Magnolias” to Shooter saying, “Son, kick their butt” before the state finals in which the barely big enough for three syllables Hickory Huskers toppled the mighty Bears of South Bend Central to shooting Old Yeller actually in my garage.)

Fun times.