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 15, 2024 | News, Recaps
Seckman 41, Northwest 7 Mississippi Magazine was hoping for a Northwest-Seckman scrum that helped both teams on Friday, and we got it. The scary part of Northwest’s rapid progression is that Hurricane Francene’s rain may not have been necessary to keep...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 8, 2024 | News, Recaps
Seckman 34, Fox 7 “It was deja-vu all over again,” wrote the country sportswriter. Seckman’s 34-7 triumph over Fox on Friday night felt so familiar, it was almost as if the Jaguars had whipped the Warriors in essentially the same contest last season,...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 1, 2024 | News, Recaps
The attitude of Missouri football programs toward storm-impacted games has changed more than once since most of us were kids. In 1991, the Herky Blackcats traveled to Festus to try to follow up on a terrific upset bid at Midmeadow Lane the previous year. The contest...
by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 27, 2024 | News, Recaps
George Carlin’s joke about language getting softer over the years rang hard in The Geek’s ears this offseason, because this here scenario calls for plain speech. Carlin spoke of how “Shell Shock” became “Battle Fatigue” which became...
by The Gridiron Geek | Dec 9, 2023 | News, Rankings, Recaps
The Geek had planned waiting a while to pen the year’s final Jefferson County Power Poll, to gain some perspective on 2023’s action before ranking Mississippi Magazine’s dozen teams one final time until September. Something about how that climactic...
