by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 10, 2022 | News, Recaps
St. Vincent 21, St. Pius 6 It’s hard for TGG to put his criticism of SPX coach Dan Oliver’s strategy in Week 7 down on bits-and-bytes. Oliver made a pre-game decision that cast Friday night’s Homecoming Game in a very different mold than Mississippi...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 3, 2022 | News, Previews, Recaps
Tri-City readers of Mississippi Magazine are still wrung-out from the “5-0-1” Crystal City Hornets’ episode in Week 6, and our local pigskin bloggers (ahem) might be feeling the hangover too. In addition, The Geek knows from experience that...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 2, 2022 | News, Recaps
The philosopher Scott Adams performed an informal experiment to show that “wishful thinking” applies even when we aren’t awake, alert, or in-fact wishing for anything particular. Adams observed 100s of people who said they believed in reincarnation...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 25, 2022 | News, Recaps
Hillsboro 58, Festus 21 The ’22 Hillsboro Hawks look every bit like a Show-Me Bowl contender to TGG. No, we’re not saying that because Hillsboro clobbered the blog’s “home team.” Festus, after a hideous 2-3 start, can’t well claim...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 19, 2022 | News, Recaps
Hillsboro 31, North County 10 The Geek does not expect to find any snickering remarks, or “Thinker”-posed emojis, on social-media threads underneath the Week 4 Friday Night Predictions. Mississippi Magazine had its best Friday of forecasting since TGG...
by The Gridiron Geek | Sep 11, 2022 | News, Recaps
Hillsboro 49, Fort Zumwalt West 13 For nearly 3 quarters, the scrum in O’Fallon (played next to a small-but-joyful cheer section across the road at Living Word Christian as usual) went a whole lot like Hillsboro’s tough tilts with large-school contenders...
