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The first high school football games kick off 2 weeks from Friday... is anybody into it enough to give any insight on what to look for? Is it the usual Eden Prairie, Cretin, Wayzta, etc? Any players of note?

Govs93 wrote:The first high school football games kick off 2 weeks from Friday... is anybody into it enough to give any insight on what to look for? Is it the usual Eden Prairie, Cretin, Wayzta, etc? Any players of note?

oh you're talking American Football.........the sport where they need to take a break every 15 seconds to organize their thoughts and plans........that football? The sport where substitutions are common place and players typically play only one way? The sport that they actually use their hands more than their feet but still call it football? I was thinking world football for a second.

My bad, I was almost all over the topic

PS - just getting back for all the field faries comments I hear from friends.

tomASS wrote:

Govs93 wrote:The first high school football games kick off 2 weeks from Friday... is anybody into it enough to give any insight on what to look for? Is it the usual Eden Prairie, Cretin, Wayzta, etc? Any players of note?

oh you're talking American Football.........the sport where they need to take a break every 15 seconds to organize their thoughts and plans........that football? The sport where substitutions are common place and players typically play only one way? The sport that they actually use their hands more than their feet but still call it football? I was thinking world football for a second.

My bad, I was almost all over the topic

PS - just getting back for all the field faries comments I hear from friends.

I'd say there are few that have beat beatin on ya pretty hard about it...and it's Grass fairies

Govs93 wrote:The first high school football games kick off 2 weeks from Friday... is anybody into it enough to give any insight on what to look for? Is it the usual Eden Prairie, Cretin, Wayzta, etc? Any players of note?

Brainerd and Moorhead will be strong in the northwest.
Bemidji will be competitive - new coach last year seems to have the kids motivated.
Tough to compete with the big suburbs, though.

tomASS - emphasis on the ass?????
'fairies' - although I am not by any definition a 'soccer' fan, the kids I know are not 'fairies', not always the greatest athletes, but not bad either.
It is not the players, its the game, just too boring to watch. Playing is probably another matter.

elliott70 wrote:

Govs93 wrote:The first high school football games kick off 2 weeks from Friday... is anybody into it enough to give any insight on what to look for? Is it the usual Eden Prairie, Cretin, Wayzta, etc? Any players of note?

Brainerd and Moorhead will be strong in the northwest.
Bemidji will be competitive - new coach last year seems to have the kids motivated.
Tough to compete with the big suburbs, though.

tomASS - emphasis on the ass?????
'fairies' - although I am not by any definition a 'soccer' fan, the kids I know are not 'fairies', not always the greatest athletes, but not bad either.
It is not the players, its the game, just too boring to watch. Playing is probably another matter.

Foul!!! profanity your done!

Exactly, it's a blast to play if you have the iron lung, but IMO it is very hard to enjoy watching even your own kids play.
The Fairy thing is just to piss them off...most play other sports, but for some reason they just get razzed for this one...I do it to my own...knowing full well I couldn't last 10min. playing.

tomASS wrote:

Govs93 wrote:The first high school football games kick off 2 weeks from Friday... is anybody into it enough to give any insight on what to look for? Is it the usual Eden Prairie, Cretin, Wayzta, etc? Any players of note?

oh you're talking American Football.........the sport where they need to take a break every 15 seconds to organize their thoughts and plans........that football? The sport where substitutions are common place and players typically play only one way? The sport that they actually use their hands more than their feet but still call it football? I was thinking world football for a second.

My bad, I was almost all over the topic

PS - just getting back for all the field faries comments I hear from friends.

Correct... American football. I was not referring to the 22 people on the "pitch" cleverly fooling millions of people around the world into thinking they're playing a "game" when in fact they're essentially running a half marathon and/or writhing around on the ground after stubbing their toes on a thin plastic/foam shin guard for an hour and a half.

American football, yes.

I also need to correct myself here... games start 2 weeks from Thursday not Friday.

never heard the grass fairies one, always the field fairies.

Gov93- very nice - yeah some of the players from certain countries (France, Portugal, Italy) have a habit of trying to be too Hollywood about their injuries that's why you step on them again just to make sure.

I have always thought that unless you grew up playing the sport it was hard to watch. That I can appreciate and understand why many still do not enjoy watching the game.

Just thought I would have fun this Monday Am after just getting back from HS tryouts this AM.

elliot70 - you should know it is always on the latter in my name.

Grand Rapids will likely not repeat as 7AAAA Champs.

Just a head's up that FSN will have STA vs. AHA this Thursday at 7:00, and Crystal Clear Sports will stream 6 games between Thursday & Friday:

Thursday
Irondale @ Spring Lake Park
Jefferson @ Eden Prairie
Rochester Century @ Wayzta (I may be at that one unless Mrs. Govs wants to go to the Fair)


Friday
Columbia Heights @ Tonino Grace
Faribault @ Becker
Coon Rapids @ Maple Grove

Grand Rapids will host Menominee, Wisc. Thursday in their home opener.

FSN Football Schedule:
Aug. 30, Holy Angels at St Thomas
Sept. 6, St. Cloud Tech at Sartell
Sept. 13, Farmington at Hutchinson
Sept. 20, Roseville at Mounds View
Oct. 5, Minnetonka at Eden Prairie
Oct. 11, Totino Grace at Mahtomedi
Oct. 17, TBA

These should all be great games. I'm from the cities, as it seems many of you are, but would you watch if they aired games of top AAA, AA, A and even 9-man teams?

Govs93 wrote:Just a head's up that FSN will have STA vs. AHA this Thursday at 7:00, and Crystal Clear Sports will stream 6 games between Thursday & Friday:

Thursday
Irondale @ Spring Lake Park
Jefferson @ Eden Prairie
Rochester Century @ Wayzta (I may be at that one unless Mrs. Govs wants to go to the Fair)


Friday
Columbia Heights @ Tonino Grace
Faribault @ Becker
Coon Rapids @ Maple Grove

Partially scratch this... looks like CCS is charging $10 per night this season.

Govs93 wrote: Partially scratch this... looks like CCS is charging $10 per night this season.

Who do they think they are? The New York Jets?

EREmpireStrikesBack wrote:Who do they think they are? The New York Jets?

You've been gone for how many days and thats the best you can do?

For whatever it's worth, I think it kind of sucks that they're charging now... although I don't imagine that it's not a cheap site to run, so I get it.

I did actually watch quite a few games on CCS last season, and it was kind of cool to see - it's a great idea. I also went out of my way to click on a bunch of the ads they have on the site, which is something I don't generally do. Having an awareness of the cost involved, I thought it was the least I could do... I actually went to so far as to actually patronize one of the business that advertized on there - Joey Nova's (very good pizza, btw).

I'll be curious to see how many people they get paying for online viewing. My guess is that it won't be too many from week-to-week.

Detroit Lakes 48
Grand Rapids 7

boblee wrote:Detroit Lakes 48
Grand Rapids 7

Bob, did Rapids leave there legs on the bus???

DL was a very good team.

if you ask me kennedy is making a huge run this year i belive they will go 7-1 losing to EP

the pioneers may go 0-8

Yeah, what did Hill lose from what they had last year? Are there any Ottos left?

Any chance Cretin or EP will lose this year?

HShockeywatcher wrote:Yeah, what did Hill lose from what they had last year? Are there any Ottos left?

Any chance Cretin or EP will lose this year?

just the otto girl is left. I dont see her lacing them up but she could.
Our team is that bad.

we had about 5 returning people from last year. 2 of our captains went out with concussions from this season and every big name position on the team is a rookie in there.

rbk24 wrote:if you ask me kennedy is making a huge run this year i belive they will go 7-1 losing to EP

k your obviosuly from Kennedy. you knew who some of their players were for hockey. and quit frankly noone knows who they are. and also, you seem to know a lot about them also.