SUV's Will Survive

Okay, I'm sorry, it's been several days...but life happens and I got busy and lazy! So once again a weekend was spent at the soccer fields. This was a small tournament so not a lot of teams were there. Infact, I think it's the smallest tournament I've ever watched or been a part of. Terrential downpours overtook the tournament on Saturday afternoon. Games were delayed and shortened but not cancelled..the games must go on!! And the only reason they were stopped was because the lightening detect or went off, no lightening was seen but the machine felt that the atmosphere was favorable. As I looked around the parking lot of this tournament I witnessed the impact of the SUV's in the world of soccer parents! When we traveled with our kids with traveling teams the thing was to have a mini van...and yes we still have ours! Now it's the SUV world...soccer parents do not care about the price of gas, they MUST have an SUV. Large or Small SUV it dosen't matter....it just has to fit that classification! Now if I were to open up a auto dealership, I think I'd open one especially designed to sell only SUV's and I'd place my sales lot right next to the town soccer fields! Maybe have a few mini vans for those new soccer parents..then a special trade in for when they are ready to go for that SUV! I can only imagine the 'soccer' specials I could run to get these things moved off my lot! I guarantee you if you see a 'regular' car in the parking lot it belongs to a game official, tournament director, grandparent/or other relative who feels obligated to come watch Jr. play or a brand new soccer family! So the SUV is in no danger of becoming extinct as long as there are parents with kids who play soccer and play and the traveling teams!