by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 27, 2025 | News, Previews
The Gridiron Geek’s Big Idea #1 for this season is to create a video channel for chat-interview style versions of the Jefferson County Power Poll and the Friday Night Predictions. It’s going to be fun, but it also saves TGG time to fact-check and improve...
by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 26, 2025 | News, Previews
The Geek has Big Ideas for Mississippi Magazine this season, to go with a pigskin year that may prove to be Jefferson County’s biggest-ever in a lot of ways – win, lose, or Draw Play. But who needs to read a laundry list of improvements at our blog when...
by The Gridiron Geek | Dec 24, 2024 | News, Rankings, Recaps, TGG Classics
The Geek knows that everyone’s been waiting a while for this year’s All-Star selections (thanks to Festus and Crystal City!) so we won’t dare publish a long preface before getting right to it. Just a fair warning first, though – 2024’s...
by The Gridiron Geek | Dec 21, 2024 | News, Rankings
#1 – Festus Tigers Jefferson County is getting tired of watching its teams play too cautiously in the Show-Me Bowl. It’s happened so often in a row that HCs have invented weird slogans to justify it. When the Herky Blackcats had their absolute best chance...
by The Gridiron Geek | Dec 12, 2024 | News, Recaps
–-Jefferson County Large Schools Coach of the Year— A.J. Ofodile, Festus Tigers Honorable Mention: Russ Schmidt, DeSoto Dragons Weirdly enough, there’s a local Large Schools coach who deserves all kinds of the honors in COTY-style awards, but his name’s...