Many people know that after a basketball game is won during the season the players get brownies the following day. It's been a long standing tradition.
However, many of you don't know how it got started. When Coach started his coaching career in 2004 he was coaching the middle school boys basketball team, the JV boys basketball team and assisting with the Varsity boys. If I recall correctly the middle school boys had an outstanding team that year and after they would win a game my mother-in-law would bake the players brownies as an incentive for them to win the next game. And so she did the whole season. I believe she also cooked brownies for the JV boys as well.
Within the next following years Coach became the Varsity coach and the brownie tradition was passed on to me. People, that's a lot of brownies.
No matter how many Pyrex pans of brownies I cook it's never enough. These boys are bottomless pits. We give brownies to them when they win a game , we give them brownies when we have cookouts, we give them brownies when we give them goodie bags. We give brownies all the time! But they deserve it. We wouldn't do so much for our team if they didn't work hard to deserve it.
As always I think I have a funny story to go along with the brownie tradition. One game night I thought I would be smart and go ahead and bake the brownies and take them to the home game. My plan was to strategically place them in the locker room before the game was over because I just knew the boys would win. I could feel it! Yeah right. I snuck in the locker room around the end of the 3rd quarter and placed my pans of brownies on one of the tables in the locker room and snuck out.
Well our boys lost. It was a bad game and as they went into the locker room my heart sank. First, my heart sank because the team lost and if Coach saw those brownies I would be fired from ever making any brownies again. Second, my heart sank because I knew once Coach saw the pans of brownies I could just imagine him throwing my Pyrex dishes into the wall in a mad fury. (That is what happens in the locker room after a loss, right?) There goes my Pyrex and there goes the brownies.
Well eventually the players started coming out one by one and no one had a brownie, hmmm, not good. Then Coach came out very unhappy. Still not good. I tried not to make eye contact with him but ended up talking to him anyway. He said nothing about the brownies so I thought maybe I was in the clear. After I realized Coach was going to be talking to someone else for awhile I slipped back into the locker room only to find my pans of brownies sitting where I had left them untouched!! Covered by a carelessly thrown shirt or towel or something. God covered my brownies!! He saved my dishes and my brownie baking job. Hallelujah! I was soo happy and yet sooo embarrassed. I felt like I had jinxed the team making the traditional brownies ahead of time. Since that game I have not made one single batch of brownies until the boys have actually won. That has been several years ago. That night I told Coach about the brownies and he said if he would have seen them they would have been destroyed. But now we I can laugh about it. To this day I still think about that night every time I make a batch of brownies.
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