This week's bizarre high school football score

Or a knockoff cheating dating website.

 

My annual post of the one great football poem:

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James… | Poetry Foundation

 

Here are others:

Football Poems | Poetry Foundation

 

1963. Whatever suicidally beautiful sons have made it this long are in their mid to late 70s now. And the best days they remember already felt like a tumble down the elevator shaft to the locals from two generations back from them.

 

A month later, JFK was assassinated in Dallas on a Friday. In 1998, when I was researching the 1963 Rocky Mount High School athletics team that won large city white school state championships in football, basketball and baseball in the same season, I realized they played the title game in Winston-Salem on the night Kennedy was shot. The two stories ran side-by-side on the paper's front page the next day.

Nobody, not even the former sports editor who wrote the gamer and still lived in town, could remember 25 years later why the game wasn't postponed. One, it could have been logistical, given that everything was already in place to hold the game. The teams were there, the tickets sold, and perhaps the shock created a situation where everyone needed a sense of normalcy.

Two, it could have been the distain many people in the state had for northern Democrats in general and Kennedy in particular. But that's only based on the politics of the time and some second-hand anecdotes of people's initial reaction to the shooting in Dallas.

The reason why I bring this up is that sons of that era were going to Vietnam for a completely different terrible gallop of bodies. The kid who caught the winning touchdown pass graduated from high school in 1964, went into the Army and was last seen during a firefight with the North Vietnamese in 1968.

SFC William Darrell Johnson (1946-1979) - Find a...

 

My first annual post of a local favorite ...

The big stud from Podunk was tall.
And he sure liked to run with the ball.
But the local preps writer
Said he wasn't a fighter.
"He cost me a scholarship, Pawwwwwlll!"

 

Score of 106-83 in North Carolina on Friday.

High school football: 106-83 North Carolina shootout ends early after lights go out

 

Story doesn't indicate it, but guessing from the video this was 11-man?

 

Sounds like the offenses were playing 11-man and the defenses 7-man.

 

"Lights went out" is a euphemism?

 

I watched some of the film. Spanish matadors would be proud of the defenses on both sides.

 

Not a score, but I heard what I thought was a funny line from a local PBP guy this weekend.

A receiver got loose for a wide-open TD catch. The guy said, "He was lonelier than the chess-club president on prom night!"