The Gridiron Geek's Mississippi Magazine
 Welcome to The Gridiron Geek’s Mississippi Magazine, a journal of Jefferson County’s 12 Varsity football teams and the greater MSHSAA landscape on Friday nights. Our mission is to help restore free-of-paywall prep pigskin content and media to alumni and padawans near and far, putting student-athletes back in the public spotlight.
Stay tuned for Mississippi Magazine’s coverage of the 2025 District Playoffs!
Week 1 Friday Night Predictions: Dash of New Matchups Makes Friday into More Than Just Rematches
Herculaneum Blackcats at Windsor Owls The Geek was feeling a blow-out win for the Windsor Owls in...
MSHSAA Class 6 (and Fox) Season Preview: Fox Takes a Bigger Lineup into the Light-Heavyweight Division
One final Big Idea from Mississippi Magazine this season is that we'd like to bring our "low...
MSHSAA Class 4 Preview: Highway A’s Glory Leads to High-Stakes Mississippi Conference Race in 2025
The Mississippi Conference is the new hotbed of Tri-State pigskin. Festus and Hillsboro have...
MSHSAA Class 3 Preview: Herculaneum Holds on to Diminishing Returns Under Blane Boss
One other Big Idea for Mississippi Magazine is a Friday Night Scoreboard. This one might take...
MSHSAA Class 2 Preview: There’s Not a Stinker in the Bunch Around Here
The Gridiron Geek's Big Idea #1 for this season is to create a video channel for chat-interview...
MSHSAA Class 1 Season Preview: Crystal City Hopes to Make More Waves Following a Splashy Offseason
The Geek has Big Ideas for Mississippi Magazine this season, to go with a pigskin year that may...
2024’s Jefferson County All-Star Selections: 56 Kids Who Revived Our Riverside’s Rep For Championship Football
The Geek knows that everyone's been waiting a while for this year's All-Star selections (thanks to...
Jefferson County Power Poll: Final 12 Team Rankings and a Look Ahead to the 2025 Season
#1 - Festus Tigers Jefferson County is getting tired of watching its teams play too cautiously in...
Jefferson County Coach of the Year Awards: Festus Head Coaches Sweep Top Honors in Large and Small Schools
–-Jefferson County Large Schools Coach of the Year— A.J. Ofodile, Festus Tigers Honorable Mention:...
MSHSAA Show Me Bowl Notes and Wrap-Up: Our Legacy is Saved by a Private School Team…and One Awesome Lady
So the Gridiron Geek (and everyone else) had to endure a Class 4 Show-Me Bowl that went as badly...