by The Gridiron Geek | Nov 2, 2024 | News, Recaps
St. Pius 42, Grandview 7 “Friday’s final score is deceiving,” wrote the country sportswriter. The Geek doesn’t want to make anyone think that St. Pius, performing without its suspended head coach Frank Ray in the most important playoff game of...
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...
