For the third time, I am giving up scores of the week, a little weekly fall football tradition that I took up when I worked Saturdays in the early 2000s.
Back then, I honestly had large chunks of time where looking through the week's high school football scores and selecting some good ones, and making up some funny things to say about them … well, it was the best use of my time.
Or, let's be honest, the best use of my time that didn't involve much effort. I mean, I could have been getting on board with the social media thing, or learning Spanish, or inventing the iPhone or doing some situps or something.
But, as funny as it has been the first 7 years, it's hard to get a chuckle from myself these days when I see Houston Scarborough play Houston Furr. Or Dallas' Samuell-Adams matchup. God knows, I've mocked poor Lucas Lovejoy, Celeste, Lubbock Christ the King, Argyle, Levelland, Lamesa Klondike and all the six-man schools enough.
It is always fun to see a new school, especially when they go on a season-long winless streak: Hello, Comanche Paradigm!
But this is it. Really.
Armadillos win! San Saba 66, Junction 14
(Thank you, San Saba for coming through in the last SOTW.)
The Akins watch: Del Valle 35, Akins 6
(We didn't end up going to this game, but it's just as well. Being sick is bad enough without watching an 0-10 team. They'll be better when the boy gets there.)
The Oscar winning score of the week: El Paso Hanks 56,
El Paso Eastwood 49
The women's lib score of the week: Alice 42, Kingsville King 21
The flat score of the week: Lamesa 34, Levelland 26
One more time for Lucas: Lucas Lovejoy 68, Nevada Community 0
The score of the week most likely to be mispronounced by a Yankee: Mexia 50, Groesbeck 28
The score of the week with no name: Pecos 42, Clint 21
The snoozer of the week: Hull-Daisetta 7, Pineland West Sabine 0
Claude gave 'em what he had, but couldn't give 'em hell. He spit in the dirt, limped off a ways and thought to himself, "Next time I'll come back with my 12-gauge. Then them bastards won't feel so lucky." Shamrock 42, Claude 28.
The Shiner watch: Shiner 14, Louise 12
The thriller of the week: Lohn 70, Brookesmith 69
Who is going to yell "Go, Milford!" Someone who's glad he doesn't have to shout "Go, Ladonia Fannindel!" Milford 48, Ladonnio Fannindel 0
The whomping of the week: Throckmorton 88, Gordon 0
Waxahachie's advantage was never quite clear: Walnut Springs 63, Waxahachie Advantage 18
The six-man score of the week and the score that I'm proud to end this adventure with: Paint Rock 112, Novice 109
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