This last Wednesday, I got the honor of cooking for a High School Football Team. Awhile back, my brother-in-law had mentioned to me that the football coach of the school he teaches at, who is also his friend, was wondering if I would be interested in coming out to the teams training camp and cooking up some ribs for them. My brother-in-law said he was more than willing to help out if I needed it. After a schedule check, I told them that I could do it. In full disclosure, being that this was for a school I felt it would be in bad taste to make them pay me for my time to do this. They did cover the minor expenses of fuel and sauce and, they were the ones who bought the meat. All I had to do was show up with my cooker, cook up the ribs, and get them ready to serve to the team.
It ended up being a beautiful day out and their camp happened to be at a youth camp that our family goes to every year. So, when I got there, I knew right where I wanted to park the cooker and get things set up.

Dinner was scheduled for around 5:30. The ribs the coach had got were St. Louis cut and looked really great. Here they are with about an hour to go.



Of course, growing men need their veggies as well. On went some fresh picked sweet corn and green beans.


This was a fantastic group to cook for. They players and coaches were beyond appreciative. The reaction when I informed the players that they were each going to get a half rack, all to themselves, was awesome. They completely destroyed the ribs and you could hear shouts from within the mess hall to not throw scraps away, that other people would take them. After the cook, almost everyone of the 40 players, unprompted came by and thanked us for the food. It was a true honor. I have to say one of the most entertaining parts of the meal though was when the players asked for BBQ Sauce to put on their corn and then proceeded to destroy over 30 cobs of BBQ Sauce glazed corn!

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