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...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 22, 2024 | News, Recaps
Webster Groves 42, Northwest 35 Sports offer a way for people to clap back at Father Time. Not by playing Jai’alai until we’re 90 (seems dangerous) but by praying for the pelota to arrive in whatever sport we’re cheering a team in. Each summer, it...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 19, 2024 | News, Predictions
It’s looking more and more like Mississippi Magazine will take all week to repair, and yet TGG is now confident enough in Friday’s forecast to make the final-score calls found below. So here’s another FB Group original for the kindly padawans who...
