The trash talk has been building inside the Aguirre household for six months.
By this point, a day before Dickinson hosts Clear Springs in a District 24-6A showdown, you’d need a dump truck to clear it all out. Brothers Lorenzo and Mariano Aguirre’s sibling rivalry is magnified by the fact that, for this week, they’re actual rivals. Lorenzo, a junior, is Dickinson’s quarterback, while Mariano, a sophomore, is Clear Springs’ center.
“I’ve been hearing about this game since the schedule came out,” the boys’ mother, Mary, said.
While Lorenzo would never admit it to him on a week like this, he looks up to his younger brother. They may play on different teams, but Mariano is constantly with him on the field. Friday night, he’ll just be physically there, too.
“Sometimes I’ll take things for granted at practice, but then I realize what he has to go through,” Lorenzo said. “It reminds me that other people can have it worse. He worked his butt off for everything he has.”
The Aguirre family lives in Dickinson’s school zone. Mariano, however, attends Clear Springs High School because it is the host site of the Galveston-Brazoria Cooperative for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the program that all deaf students in Galveston County attend.
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