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 13, 2022 | News, Recaps
Hillsboro 55, Festus 6 Saturday, November 12 USPS Envelope Half-Sealed NO STAMP Dear MSHSAA, Thank you for the apology in my inbox following MSHSAA TV’s attempt to broadcast the Class 4 District Championship Game at Hillsboro High. I thought I’d respond...
by The Gridiron Geek | Nov 6, 2022 | News, Recaps
Festus 28, North County 15 TGG doesn’t pretend to understand defense as well as he understands offense and special teams, even though Mississippi Magazine will always argue that offense (i.e. scoring points) and defense (i.e. “stoppin’ a team from...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 30, 2022 | News, Recaps
Seckman 50, St. Louis University High 41 Who says a 1-loss team can’t make a statement in the Q-Finals? Seckman High School – in a narrative that Mississippi Magazine consciously soft-pedaled on Thursday – probably had the worst opening-round playoff...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 23, 2022 | News, Recaps
Mississippi Magazine rarely posts Week 9 “Scores and Analysis” because A) everyone is looking forward to Week 10 already and B) it takes extra time to lay-out brackets for our District preview. But it’s very hard to “C” a winning play...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 16, 2022 | News, Recaps
Cardinal Ritter 26, Hillsboro 13 The best lawyer shows are the ones in which the good-guy (or good-lady) lawyer doesn’t win every case. There’s that wonderful “Columbo” episode, for instance, in which the murderer is acquitted by a jury, and...
