by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 8, 2023 | News, TGG Classics
How does TRIFECTA work as an acronym? True Revival In Football Excellence Commands Total Awe. Hmm. Not bad. Neither was Friday night in Jefferson County. ‘Specially not if you happen to reside next to one of the 7 Wonders of the World. Riverside schools from the...
by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 7, 2023 | News, TGG Classics
DeSoto 14, Hillsboro 8 Buddhists say a man is shaped in his earliest years. One of The Geek’s childhood friends was an All-Conference pass-rusher at a private school. In his senior year, the team played Festus and Hillsboro in consecutive weeks. The first Friday...
by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 6, 2023 | News, TGG Classics
Grandview 47, St. Vincent 25 Where to begin covering a slate like Week 8? St. Pius X clinched an I-55 Conference title, Seckman High School paved its way to Suburban League glory with a 20-13 victory over Fox, and of course, TGG’s favored (if not always favored)...
by The Gridiron Geek | Dec 2, 2022 | News, Rankings
#1 – Hillsboro Hawks Was the Blue & White unfortunate to peak on the gridiron just as Class 3 and Class 4 are leftover-turkey full of private school division-killers? Considering the machine HHS otherwise had its hands on in 2022, it’s tone-deaf not to...
by The Gridiron Geek | Nov 20, 2022 | News, Recaps
St. Mary’s 55, Hillsboro 34 Well, that’s that. The Geek allowed the words “Show-Me Bowl” to slip into this season’s coverage many times, and references to Hillsboro and the state-title game had nothing to do with SMBs that happened in...
by The Gridiron Geek | Nov 18, 2022 | News, Predictions
MSHSAA Class 4 Quarterfinal: Hillsboro Hawks at St. Mary’s Dragons (Saturday Nov. 19) It takes a whole lot to cause The Geek to change a prediction. Especially when it’s a long-term prediction, made on a game-date everyone can see coming up the pike. For a...
