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[quote=Anonymous]Okay serious answer:

If $20 is okay for you to spend -- Get a case of water and a couple of packs of juice packets or boxes -- whatever kind your family likes as you are keeping the leftovers.  Toss them in a cooler with some ice.  Get enough individual goldfish packets (the come like 12 to a box so probably a couple of boxes is good although parents like them too) for the team and siblings.  Goldfish are good as pretty much everyone likes them or at least do not dislike them, and they are peanut safe.  Even if no one on the team has a peanut concern its easier if you do not have to police it  You never know if the 3 year old sibling of a kid on the other team will wander over.

If you are the snack parent for the day -- when the kids are shaking hands at the end of the game -- move the cooler and goldfish about 15 yards or so away from the field in the direction of the parking area so teams for the next game can get set up and you don't have to cross or go around the field to leave.

Kids like the snacks and a packet of goldfish is not going to spoil their appetite if they are headed out to brunch or lunch.  Most of the time kids are a bit hungry with games starting typically between 9 and 10, and kids having eaten a bowl of cereal around 7 to 7:30.

Don't bother with half-time stuff.  There is no time.  Just have water bottles for your kid.

Although -- just for fun -- my kid's college team would have cut up oranges in the lockerroom at half-time of the first exhibition game each year just to get the freshman going.  "Yeah -- got to have oranges at half-time.    Seniors did it this time.  Freshman got next game."

Before the first real game each year after the coaches leave the lockerroom, the team captains start with the pre-game tradition of taking a slug of vodka (water) from the bottle.  The rule is that you have to finish the bottle before leaving the lockerroom.  Start with the seniors and work down to the freshman making sure to leave quite a bit in the bottle for the freshman to have to finish off. 
The tell the most outgoing freshman what's up so they volunteer to go first.  Then you have 2 to 4 others thinking they have to finish off about a third of a bottle of vodka before their first college game.  I asked the coach about it last year -- he said it really loosens the freshman up coming out of the lockerroom.  They are talking about that rather than getting nervous about the game.
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