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I have created a new word
December 11, 2007We will get to the football action in a moment. For now, I want to tell you about my new word.
It's called mog. Half mist, half fog. (fist, obviously, was already taken). The last three weeks, I have covered two games in some cold mog: Graham-Argyle and Seymour-Sunray.
What's worse is that I have had to make a couple of long drives back to the casa here in Wichita Falls in that stuff.
It's no fun. Just as it is no fun to play in the mog. And as I write this late Monday night, there is mog everywhere in Wichita Falls.
Back to football. Here are some of my thoughts:
* Last week, I gave two scenarios on how the Munday-Windthorst game would turn out. And my first one was right.
The Trojans, despite gaining only 86 yards (and 66 of those came on one play), hung around with two blocked punts and a fumble return for a touchdown. Munday, coming off a huge win vs. Roscoe, failed to put the game away.
In the end, the Moguls prevailed, 17-16. But only after the Trojans let a late opportunity slip away with a fumble. Sounded like a good game.
* Snyder running back Will Clay is the best RB I have seen all year. By far.
He is powerful, elusive and decently fast. There's a reason why he has almost 3,000 yards and 41 touchdowns. There were times he refused to go down.
Vernon did not do a good job of tackling, but I still cannot believe the Lions' tough defense gave up 404 rushing yards. You knew Snyder was running -- the whole stadium knew -- and yet it didn't matter. Still a great season for the Lions.
* Total bummer Rider came up short in the regional finals again. It sounded like a very winnable game for them. That makes three times Rider has lot in this round in the past four years -- all of which were one play from going their way.
* Seymour is playing for a state football title for the first time in school history. That's great. Its team speed was superior to Sunray, and the Panthers easily took advantage of it.
And Hayden Holub is a total stud. Hadn't seen him play in person until Saturday, but came away impressed. He had all of Seymour's rushing and passing yards.
* And finally, I wanted to send a thanks to all the deer that decidedly chose not to jump out in front of my car on the way back home from Lubbock in the mog.
I am a total city boy (self-disclosure: never ridden a horse or gone hunting or camping), so the thought of having a deer step in front of me while I drive my wife's tiny Camry scares the living crap out of me.
I counted 20 deer on the road in the Dickens-Guthrie area. And you can imagine my nervous hands gingerly clutching the steering wheel while my beady eyes kept shifting to the left and right side of the road.
My biggest fear was nailing one in the middle of the night while being stopped somewhere with no cell phone reception. My only saving grace: hoping some random Seymour person was driving behind me and would stop and help (which I am sure they would).
Thankfully, it never came down to that.
I'll talk more about the Munday and Seymour games in separate blogs later in the week. So check back in a couple of days.
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