by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 21, 2025 | News, Recaps
Northwest 42, Webster Groves 35 When does Mississippi Magazine break its rule about county-vs-county recaps going on top? When both Big River teams win in heart-stopping style, that’s when! Northwest and Grandview played their trademark brand of pigskin on...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 13, 2025 | News, Recaps
North County 14, DeSoto 13 The Geek is not planning to post a Jefferson County Power Poll in Week 4. There were so many heartbreaking defeats for the Dirty Dozen this weekend that ranking everybody now would lead to bad expectations for next Friday. Inevitably, some...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 7, 2025 | News, Recaps
Seckman 21, Fox 14 (OT) It was, by any definition, one of the greatest games ever played in Jefferson County. Seckman and Fox’s overtime drama was as thrilling and suspenseful as Hillsboro’s overtime title tilt with Cape Girardeau Central, Herky’s...
by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 31, 2025 | News, Recaps
Festus 30, Rolla 14 The Gridiron Geek has begun the 2025 season with a set of the worst predictions you’ve ever seen. You know how rap music fans started wearing that T-Shirt, “Real Bad?” Mississippi Magazine’s predictions were REAL BAD and...
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 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...
