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...
by The Gridiron Geek | Nov 27, 2023 | News, Recaps
Hillsboro 34, Lutheran North 12 The Geek admits to never thinking much about what it would be like to cover a Show-Me Bowl for Mississippi Magazine. Oh, sure, we can technically do whatever we want on a 12-team blog that has to report on all of MSHSAA anyway. When TGG...
by The Gridiron Geek | Nov 20, 2023 | News, Recaps
Hillsboro 48, Pacific 35 Forget the score. Forget the Pacific Indians’ scary comeback. If Hillsboro won its Q-Final game 1-0, then that’s a better outcome than the team’s last 2 tries against Ladue High and St. Mary’s Prep, and by a margin of a...
