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Year-end high school football thoughts
December 31, 2007I'm a total slacker. Here I am, blogging 2-3 times a week, and then when state championships are up for grabs, I disappear from the face of the Earth.
And I really don't have any great excuse other than I was writing more for the paper those weeks, Christmas shopping and the holiday season had me tied up, plus I had a couple of vacation days thrown in.
As a matter of fact, as I write this, I'm about 15 minutes from leaving work here on Sunday night and I'll be gone until Jan. 11. My family and I are headed up to Jackson, Wyoming for lots of skiing and some well-deserved rest and relaxation.
But I wanted to write a blog before I left with a couple of ending-the-year football memories.
But I wanted to write a blog before I left with a couple of ending-the-year football memories.
And also, even though high school football season is through, when I return I will continue blogging about sports and other related topics.
So keep tuning in, and since my life is far less hectic now that football is over, I should be blogging quite a bit once I return.
Anyway, here are some quick hits form the high school football season:
* Munday's defensive line is the best I have seen since covering football here four years ago. They allowed 1.24 yards per rush in the entire playoffs. That's incredible.
* And I know the Moguls could give Alto a game. Watching both Class A state championships was fun, and I think those two winners would play an entertaining game.
*Alto didn't impress me as much as I thought they would. Their speed, which is all you hear about, was pretty good, but Seymour's defense did not let Alto's playmakers get to the edges. Very quality performance by the Panthers.
* Some people have asked me if I thought Seymour would have won if QB Hayden Holub hadn't torn his ACL in the first quarter.
My reply: I think maybe they would have been trailing by a touchdown in the fourth quarter, so they would have had to make a great drive into the wind to tie things up. But they would have at least had a shot.
* I think my Red River 22 team selections went pretty well. There were a couple of kids I would have liked to have squeezed on, but everybody who really deserved it made it.
And I have not received any nasty e-mails form parents of kids who said I should have placed on the team, so that's always nice.
* And finally, what a great high school football season 2007 was. Two teams played for state titles, another three went to regional finals.
I thought we would have a decent year from this area (we always seem to), but I remember having a conversation with KFDX sports anchor Tobin McDuff in August.
We agreed on expectations for certain teams, but after the great runs of Windthorst, Vernon, Holliday, Electra and Rider on 2006, we thought this year might take a little bit of a step down.
Oh, how we were wrong. In my four years here, this was the most successful playoff season I have endured. And it was a great past few weeks.
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