This week's bizarre high school football score

6-man from Kansas
Ingalls 100
Deerfield 87

 

Little Scoreboard on the Prairie. Nellie Oleson got her ass kicked again.

 

Kid for Ingalls in that game had 552 yards rushing and 12 TD.

 

One thing I find interesting
Can’t speak for all the TV stations around Tampa but one I watch goes big on Friday night high school football and another ignores it

 

Probably a Nexstar station.

 

The one that does hs fb is

 

Discrepancy in roster sizes? In the executions, does the loser often have a roster that’s nowhere near as large as the school’s enrollment says it should be?

 

Our local Hearst-owned station gets highlights from nearly every game Fridays. I think they even take contributions from film crews, you can see the difference when the picture goes from high def to standard def.

Best job I've seen is from the NBC affiliate in Phoenix. Rembember they do early prime in the Rocky Mountain time zone, with late local news at 10, so they do their show at 11:35 after "Tonight." All the scores statewide, highlights of the big games in Phoenix metro and they'll even bring in a team and cheerleaders (and sometimes a small band) to the studio so they can all watch highligts together.

 

The day of celebration is approaching.

 

I got curious enough to run the scoreboard numbers again this week. Thirteen games with the winning team scoring 60-plus points, and most were area games (meaning populations should be similar.) In five cases, the losing team had 21 or more, including finals of 63-48 and 63-32. Even the one school I thought might be held back by a high percentage of Hispanic students turned out to be 93 percent white.

Defenses are starting to come around with the cooler temps. We had eight games this week where the winning side scored less than 20 points.

 

Covered a 14-0 game on Friday between two teams that loved to run the football. Ten passes combined the whole game. One team had a 15-play, 9 1/2 minute drive with one pass. Another had a 15-play, 6-minute drive with no passes. Game started at 7 p.m. and the final whistle blew right at 9. It was beautiful, man.