For Fans of Check, Please! A Webcomic about Hockey, College, and the Frequent Baking of Pies

For Fans of Check, Please! A Webcomic about Hockey, College, and the Frequent Baking of Pies
For Fans of Check, Please! A Webcomic about Hockey, College, and the Frequent Baking of Pies
I love that Bitty uses words like conniption! He is so sassy and comfortable with his mother and we see that happening more and more with the guys as the story goes on!
I do worry about what will happen with Coach in the rest of the story. I can hope that he is super understanding and loves bitty unconditionally but doesn't know how to show it but I have a feeling that's not going to be the case...only time will tell.
God, mom, you are so embarrassing!
Shitty aka er, that other boy
I'm dying to know more about Coach. Bitty's face in the second-to-last panel makes me wonder. The way he's ducking his head and changing the subject makes is seem that Coach made the peewee incident into a huge, embarrassing ordeal. I hate that for cute little peewee Bitty.
I can envision the utter nightmare it would be to be coached by your own father and fail. Ugh!
Mother and son are too cute together.
I wonder if maybe someday Jack will talk to Coach and help him understand Bitty more and why this stuff was hard for Bitty. In my head at least I imagine Coach would respect the hell out of Jack and that someday, perhaps when they have kids and Bitty doesn't invite Coach to his kids peewee games or something that Jack would help Coach understand where Bitty's coming from.
Two interesting notes:
Also Bitty still looks so young omg.
For what it's worth Junior Pee-Wee, at least in Pop Warner League football, is 8-10 year olds and small 11 year olds. It sounds like Coach didn't know how to calibrate his expectations?
...and again I'm coming up with "Bitty must be a tremendous natural athlete in general" - if he was playing football at 8, does that give him a kind of late start into figure skating? (Maybe not - looking at biographies of male figure skaters, 8-9 seems to be a typical age to start, with the occasional 'strapped on skates before he could walk' and the occasional late bloomer.) Bitty credits Coach for his skill with a snowball - I bet if he'd been able to play football in a position generally exempt from rough handling (kicker or punter?), we wouldn't be having a comic.
(AU: Samwell Men's Football. Jack is the star quarterback, trying to make a case for himself to the NFL despite coming out of a little New England liberal arts college instead of the increasingly-misnamed Big 10. Eric is the soccer player they've brought in as a place kicker...)
Junior Pee-Wee football would have been in the fall of 2003, if Bitty was 8. And then I see that in January 2004, the US Figure Skating National Championship was held in Atlanta, with Johnny Weir taking the gold in the men's' division. I can't imagine that wasn't formative for Bitty in some way, maybe several ways.