No not dove or deer season—FOOTBALL SEASON!
The week that saw high school and colleges open up
their 2018 football campaigns, with certain match ups that make you scratch
your head, and others were set up between ranked college teams and had meaning
in the polls!
For the high schools, exciting games to kick it off
with, a double overtime victory for a school out of the Richardson schools,
J.J. Pearce out lasted the Knights of Frisco’s Independence high school 38-37,
with a dramatic end of the 2nd over time!
Independence was able to get a touchdown to come
with one of the Mustangs, but tried for a two point conversion, which they were
able to get, but there was laundry on the field, and they had to back it up and
they went for another tie, but the kick sailed left and the Mustangs ran off
the field as if they won a playoff spot! However, who could blame them!
Other match ups, had Fort Worth Dunbar took on
Dallas Kimball in their first game of the season and lost by 2 points to the Knights!
Just exciting football overall in the metroplex. The South Oak Cliff Golden
Bears were able to outlast, what once was a powerhouse out of Dallas ISD the
Skyline Raiders, but after their 23 year streak of going into the post season
last year, the Raiders are having a tough time regrouping, since their head
coach Reggie Samples left and went to Duncanville High School.
The sting of a lost, no matter what level of play
you have, be it the Pop Warner games, or High School, or even College- Pro, it
never feels good or settles in your soul right.
The College games though that’s a different story,
with match ups like number 23 Texas going up against unranked Maryland, at
Fed-Ex field in Landover, Maryland.
The Longhorns last year in Austin hosted Maryland
and lost 41-31, this year they go into the stadium after hearing all the hype
of how, the Terrapins were disarray, with their coach suspended, and the lost
of a freshman lineman Jordan McNair who died from heat stroke during workouts
and practice in the summer.
Emotions work in the favor of that team, to “Win one
for the Gipper” mentality, and for the most part, that’s what the Terps did.
They came out of the tunnel waving a #79 flag—holding his jersey as they go to
the coin toss, then leave a whole on the left side of the offensive line to
take a Delay of Play penalty—in which the Longhorns Declined, and showed a
great gesture of sportsmanship.
Then storms blew in to stop the game for about two
and half hours, and that takes a bit of the rhythm and makes it skip a beat or
so.
The storms also interrupted other games on the
opening weekend of College Football, like The Ohio State game against Oregon
State, that game was stalled at half time while thunder storms rolled through,
but that didn’t stop the Buckeyes from beating the Beavers handedly.
Then in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Cornhuskers were set
to take on Akron, only to have the storms last more than a few hours, and so
ESPN thought about postponing the game until Sunday, but that didn’t last very
long as both teams decided to just cancel the game all together and just pack
it up and go home.
Auburn ranked number 9 in the nation was able to
beat the # 6 Washington Huskies, and like it was pointed out earlier, ranked
teams with something on the line to play well, will move up in the rankings
while others will slip. With other teams that are ranked taking on lesser
competitors, such as Southern taking on TCU, and lets face it, it was a money
game for Southern.
On Sunday night, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington,
Texas, the LSU Tigers were taking on the Hurricanes of Miami, in the Advocare
Classic, and in doing so, the #25 Tigers upset the # 8 Miami Hurricane 33-17,
making the top 25, after the 1st week of competition all jumbled up.
Not too mention the Monday night affair with the
Seminoles of Florida State hosting Virginia Tech, and losing! So again a top
ranked team losing to lower ranked team, and the scramble continues.
What can we expect in the coming weeks? Who knows,
the one thing about competition is that nothing is predictable…. Lets face it,
the only thing you know is to be certain, is “you tug on Superman’s cape, you
don’t spit into the wind, you pull the mask of the ol Lone Ranger and you don’t
mess around with Slim”….. (sorry to the late Jim Croce’)
Week two of College and High School Football and the
first week of The NFL gets underway, and once again we will watch the games,
and yell for our teams, and even yell at our TV’s because of something that
didn’t go the way we expected, but all in all, we do remember its just a game!
Its just a thought.
