Flatonia

Our preseason 2A defensive player of the year, but he might be even more dangerous with the al- wi- with the ball in his hands.

He is a guy who has been exceptional on both sides of the ball last week against Flatonia, one hundred and thirty five yards and a touchdown on the ground, four passes for four catches for eighty eight yards and a score and eleven tackles.

He's been fantastic.

And now they go into a top ten showdown with undefeated and relative upstart Kennedy.

Had the week off to kind of lick some wounds.

Got right against Flatonia last week in their district opener.

And looked more just, I don't know.

Here's the thing that I can say.

My great-great-grandfather, Xavier Bruner, and his wife, Apollonia, made the journey from southern Germany in the 1870s across the Atlantic, settled in Ohio, and applied for meeting some family and applied for a land grant in Texas.

And they were awarded 660 acres in Fayette County, in an area of Fayette County, which is kind of near Shiner, Weimar, Schulenburg, Flatonia, that kind of, you've maybe heard of some of those little small cities, of course, Shiner, Beer, right? All the Germans came there.

I was going to say, a

lot of Germans in those cities, yeah.

And he came and, you know, he wound up having nine children there.

lived to a ripe old age.

And one of the things I'm really proud of and I shared in my keynote is his obituary in the Flatonia Argos newspaper, which called him, you know, one of the most respected members of the community.

And that always is.