by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 27, 2024 | News, Recaps
To understand just how much bigger, faster, and filled with good teams our county’s Friday Night Lights are as compared to a few years ago, think of how Week 9 scores would’ve painted a pale cloud over Jeff County football going into MSHSAA’s...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 20, 2024 | News, Recaps
Seckman 41, Hazelwood West 7 (Thursday) A helpful report from Ray Halbrook of Live Stream STL this Friday pointed out that MSHSAA’s sudden rash of Thursday games is caused in-part by a shortage of referees. With enough programs who are happy to play (and enough...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 13, 2024 | News, Recaps
Hillsboro 35, DeSoto 17 The Gridiron Geek’s absolute favorite kind of football game is the rare contest that helps both teams. We don’t mean the pabulum that’s heard after a sloppy Week 1 scrum, when coaches say stuff like, “This will be...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 6, 2024 | News, Recaps
Festus 31, North County 0 It was about an hour to go until kickoff on Friday night when The Gridiron Geek thought of something terrible. There were half of a dozen Week 6 games in which Dirty Dozen schools were taking on out-of-county opponents, and Mississippi...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 29, 2024 | News, Recaps
Festus 14, Hillsboro 7 The stage was set. The state runner-up Hillsboro Hawks had endured a grudging defensive war with the crosstown rival Festus Tigers, set in the rainy refuse of yet another Gulf hurricane, only to look up with 2:00 to go and realize the Football...
