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To be fair to OSD, because of the way you made the OP, I had no idea which part of it was from the game thread and which part of it was your's. My initial reaction was the same as OSD's. Then I went back and read the game thread and figured out how much was your's and how much was MTGL's. How about some quotes next time Curly?

Maybe it's not by choice, but I liked seeing the smaller, quicker linemen for Beechwood. I think it's been pretty well proven that teams can be very successful using smaller, quicker O and D linemen in defeating teams using big and slow linemen. Plus, if you are going to need to have some of them play both ways, they are usually in much better condition than the big old linemen. If I recall properly a lot of Beechwood's linemen are pretty young. That may have played a much bigger role in them getting pushed around by CovCath than their size.

Thx. Will comment later.

The answer to your first question: yes. President Obama's decision to shut down stuff that doesn't need to be shut down results in some people believing he has stooped to the level of members of Congress acting in a partisan manner. The answer to your second question: No. The answer to your third question: I do and I'm sure that those Americans adversely impacted by the unnecessary shutdown of certain venues care also. Response to the rest of your post: both parties in Congress share the blame. I agree with that. Yet I expect the President of this country, be he (or she) a D or R, to be above what is displayed in Congress. We can place the blame for this country's extreme partisanship on a lot of people in the past and the present. At this point, what happened in the past is somewhat meaningless to me. I care about the now and what it will take to move this country forward. Actions like unnecessarily shutting down certain venues makes it harder to make things better. The unnecessary shutdown of venues by this Administration is one more example of my belief that President Obama is a very ineffective leader; does not know what it takes to lead; does not have what it takes to actually lead; and misses opportunity after opportunity to get and use the support of John Q. Public behind him to lead a majority of Congress. A side bar thought or two to ponder: Some of those upset with the tea partiers in the House like to claim that such a small number of idealogues shouldn't be running the House. I've heard our President use similar comments himself. Yet if they are such a small number of people out of touch with reality, how can they have such a large impact on what the House does? Are they greater in number than we think? If so, shouldn't a large number of elected officials with a specific view point, in a representative form of government, have a strong say in this country's policies? If they aren't so great in numbers, why don't the moderate members of Congress simply outvote them? On this issue, wouldn't the liberal members support the moderates of both parties and support measures to end the shutdown? Help me out here folks in understanding the venom being sent towards the very conservative members of the House. Something just doesn't add up to me. It seems to me that either they are just a few out of touch people, in which case they should be easily outvoted; or they are greater in number, in which case their views are supported by a significant number of Americans and their views shouldn't be so easily dismissed. Is there a third option that I'm missing?

Then again, Dale and Bob might have actually passed the ball frequently to Tony Messer in the state championships games against Central and come home a winner! :isurrender: Sorry Toots, the Devil made me do it! :laugh:

Fair point. But some things to consider: 1. PT had fast, quick D linemen and LBers. Does JC?; 2. Highlands played PT after a long 5 hour bus ride. JC will have the long bus ride to FT if they meet in the playoffs; 3. No disrespect to Jalen Hayes, but he's not the pass blocker that Harris is. Harris did not play in the PT game. He did play in the CovCath game and the protection given Houliston was much better. If Harris plays in a game against JC, Houliston will get better pass protection than he got against PT; and 4. Highlands played PT the week before playing CovCath, its strongest rival. While Dale does a pretty good job of trying to keep the kids focused on every game, they are nonetheless kids, and they very easily could have been looking past PT. Take it as a compliment to JC, the Highlands players do not look past JC.

Nailed it. Well done.

It is a really nice, cheap restaurant. Been there several times and the food is always great, as is the service. Really nice and friendly people. Grabbed some to go on Monday night. Again great.

No problem Toots. Like you said, you know the man better, much better, than I do.

To be honest, this "antic" doesn't bother me as much as it bothers others. Good Lord, if the kid made a 60 yard field goal, it's blooming impressive and I don't think I care how the ball got to the needed LOS. I also don't see it as the embarrassment to the other team that others (including people I really respect) on here do. It would bother me if the defenders hadn't rushed, but rather stood aside and let the kicker have all the time he wanted on the kick. Not sure why (other than it was Matney) people are upset with the fact a ball carrier ran backwards to get the ball to the necessary LOS. I'm not sure Matney didn't do it with the hope it would cause the uproar that it has on here. I hear that Jim likes playing the "everyone hates JC" card and the "we don't get any respect" card to motivate his players. Wouldn't surprise me a bit. Something like this plays into that hand. Almost Dudley-esque.

It's been asked and answered every year for the probably the last 5 years or more. I could have told you the responses before they were even made.

BGP has become the House of Trolls!

I'd say that a lot of those considered to be tea partiers and elected in 2010 expressed very strong opposition on the campaign stump to Obamacare. People clamor for compromise by our elected officials. I've done it myself. But I fully appreciate people believing that elected officials should first and foremost stick to what they promised their constituents when they campaigned. That's called keeping your word; having integrity. It's called representative government. It is THE job of Congress, particularly the House, to represent and present the desires of their constituents. I've said it before; I'll say it again: a whole lot of this mess lies squarely at the feet of our President. Not all but a huge part. He greatly lacked the skills needed for the executive branch when he took office and 4 plus years later I haven't seen great improvement. He did not and still has not convinced enough Americans of the merits of Obamacare and he made a huge strategic and tactical error when he crammed it down the Rs throats. Won the battle but made it much more difficult to win the war. There are many, many people from both parties that fervently believe that compromise is why this country is in such rotten shape today. For every far righter that blames the deficit for today's problems, there's a far lefter that blames low corporate taxes and corporate welfare for today's problems. For every far righter that blames gay marriage for today's problems, there's a far lefter that blames the ability of people to become billionaires while there are people still poor for today's problems. The once great "middle" has significantly diminished as people have moved closer to the extremes. And that won't change until a new president with strong leadership skills is elected. I'm no President Obama basher. Not even close. I was a Marine officer however. I know leadership when I see it. I also know the lack of leadership when I see that too. President Obama may be very intellectually smart; he may be a great husband and father; he may be a great and caring person; he may be a great guy to shoot hoops and share a couple of beers with; but in my opinion he has been a very poor leader. I know some will respond with the argument that there are Rs that refuse to be lead. And I'm sure there is some truth to that argument. When that happens, a President has to go around them; he has appeal to the people; he has to lead the constituents of those people to support his agenda. Reagan was a master of doing just that. Reagan was a masterful leader. He was able to convince every day Americans registered as Democrats to support conservative legislation. Hell he was able to convince Tip O'Neill, one of the most powerful and liberal persons in the history of the Congress, to support some of his conservative legislation. This country will remain mired until a person with strong leadership skills and traits (be that person a D or an R) is elected President. If anyone cares to check, when President Obama got elected the first time, while I supported McCain, I posted that I did think and hope that President Obama had the skills to unite a large part of this country. He certainly had the charisma and oratory skills to do so. I was optimistic. Then his inexperience as the leader of an executive branch, while pushing a very aggressive agenda in his first couple of years, wiped the usefulness of those skills off the blackboard. If Reid, Pelosi and others pushed him to act quickly after his election, they did him no long term favors; they did this country no long term favors. No one has to like or agree with the above. They are just the thoughts of a 55 year old, pretty well educated, very experienced in the ways of the world, pretty well rounded (pardon the pun) person that is called a conservative by liberals and a Rino by tea partiers. Which is just fine by me. (Edit: for reasons I don't understand, I did not intend for this to be one long paragraph. I tried to create multiple paragraphs).

Great post Clyde. Keep your head up Jacob. The character that you demonstrated in your commitment to becoming the best football player you could become will serve you very well the rest of your life.

FWIW, I had the same reaction that Trinity alum did.

Sandman, normally I agree with you, but I've seen players/teams really play hard some weeks and be rather lackadaisical other weeks. Do I think CovCath played without a hard effort against Highlands? Man, I'd sure hope not. I did see a couple of CovCath players (and no I won't give numbers as I don't want to identify those players) seemingly really packing it in after Highlands got up by 21. Based on the comments of a CovCath fan standing nearby me, I wasn't the only one that saw that. And these kids were not backups playing due to injured starters. Having said that, I also saw some CovCath players playing hard the entire game. Kudos to them. Great effort by the Highlands players and another nice coaching job by Dale, Brian and the assistants.

Doc Waite to the rescue!

Agree. And for the record, the fine in the referenced article was at the youth league level.

Two great articles on Conner. Well done young man; well done. Keep it going! Conner Hempel gets his shot as starting quarterback at Harvard - Sports - The Boston Globe Harvard football rolls over San Diego, 42-20, in its season opener - Sports - The Boston Globe

My memory may be faulty, but I think Dale made more changes to the traditions than Tom did. Which I'm fine with. Things change and I understand that concept. Playtowin, thanks for mentioning my Dad as a member of the old Cannon Crew. Brought back great memories of him. Like the time he showed up at Henry's door when she was just a little girl looking for more gun powder. He scared the heck out of her. Little did they both know, that years later Henry would be marrying his son. Or the time, as part of the 75 state championship procession through town, my Dad loaded the cannon into the bed of his pick up (which was being driven by the fine gentleman whom is now my father-in-law and whom purchased the cannon back in 1968). The police escort told my Dad he better not be planning on firing the cannon from the back of the pick up truck (if you knew my Dad, it was very reasonable for the police officer to think my Dad would do it). Without warning my future father-in-law, my Dad fired it as the truck was moving through town. Jolted the heck out of th truck and scared the beejeezus out of everyone except those in the bed of the truck. Police escort stopped the procession and told Dad not to do that again. As soon as the procession started moving, Dad popped off another shot. Police officer just gave up at that point. Which of course caused my Dad to not fire it again during the rest of the procession. Great memories. Dad was quite the character.

Just not near as frequently as they have during the Mueller years.

Ditto. Congrats David.

Congrats Chief Smoke. Well done.

Nice article Scribe. Thanks for posting it.

Does Colerain have a QB that can pass the ball this year? If so, that offense which is always very good, becomes flat out wicked. I've always been impressed by Colerain. Particularly the great speed in the O backfield and exceptional LBers on D year after year. I know you don't give Highlands much respect but I won't let that impact my assessment of Colerain. Great program.