8/26 - Green Bay Southwest 7 - Lincoln 27

I missed the first big conference game of the season thanks to my sister's wedding (rehearsal).  The HTR has all the highlights, though.  Congrats to Austin, Nick, and Jonah on a job well-done.  And Nick scored a TD?  Hot damn!

Good job, Austin!

Good job, Nick!

Good job, lil' buddy!

And a big thanks goes out to the Pommers who helped get the crowd cheerin'!

Nick's First Touchdown!!!

Atta boy, Nick!  Can't believe I missed it (wedding season - damn!)

Get On Your Damn Feet

Uhhhh, I don't think 56 has the ball, Austin

Football move?

Austin wrangler.

Did he at least buy Austin dinner first?

I like how Notre Dame isn't even blocking him here.

Whoops

Right through the hands...

Everyone Else

OK, fine, there were other highlights in the 41-7 beat-down of Notre Dame:

That ball was criminally under-thrown.  Tip-o-cap to Pistol Pete...

De-Effing-Cleated

I'm glad he got a pick, but he made it interesting before he finally got it.

8/19 - Lincoln 41 - Notre Dame 7

*slow clap*  Well done gentlemen.  I'll let the HTR take the recap.  Without further adieu, let's get to my favorite players' highlights:

Austin:  Final (unofficial line): 1 TKL; 1 TFL; 1 FF

Great job here by Austin, sticking his big paw in there and causing the fumble.

Good form, but Austin turned back inside when all his leverage was on the outside shoulder.  He could have made a big play here, instead, well, he hit the ground.  /shocked

When he was upright, Austin got in on the QB, almost deflecting this pass.

Nick:  Final (unofficial line): 1 Dropped Pass; Several Good Rolls on Punts; 1 Sweet Stiff-arm

I almost feel bad for the Notre Dame player who thought he could block the punt by jumping over the wedge (he landed on his head)

Heisman Pose

Jonah:  Final (unofficial line): So many great drive blocks, Big Cat Williams should be starting at FB next week...

That's our half man on the right, opening up what would have been a big hole had someone bothered to block 77.

About This Site

I love high school football.  No sport is better than football, of course, but what makes high school football so much fun is that special players can single-handedly swing games on their own.  I'm lucky enough to know two and a half such players.  Austin is a defensive end playing the role of a defensive tackle in a traditional 4-3: take up as many blockers as you can and (apparently) stop playing after that.  Nick is the backup quarterback with a big arm and (perhaps) even bigger ego.  I can say that, because it takes one to know one.  He's such a damn good athlete, though, that he rotates in as a wideout because, as any HSFB aficionado knows: you get your best athletes on the field any way you can.  Which brings us to Jonah.  Yet another excellent athlete, he's been thrown onto the field as a center.  All 4% body fat of him.  The only thing I can figure is that when the coaches asked who would try out for center, Jonah volunteered to be "closer" to his buddy Nick.  In any event, he's half of who he needs to be, size-wise, for the position.  Thus, two and a half men...