RebRaider85

I did not see anyone from South get ejected. If anyone deserved to get ejected it was Gate City #10 who tackled the South RB about 2 yards out of bounds and drove him all the way into the fence. If he had hit the fence at the pole it could have broken his neck. One of the worst cheap shots I’ve seen in a long time.

South has only lost to TN 5A schools Daniel Boone (when they had Charlie Cole) and undefeated Cherokee (32-30). South is a much better team than most on this board have been giving them credit for.

East #8 was transported from the sideline back to the field house in the back of a JD Gator vehicle with about a minute left in the game. I was sitting in the stands right above where he was laying prone on the sideline for a few minutes. He had to be lifted into the back of the vehicle and from his face it appeared he was in some serious pain, enough to prompt prayer from this old man! Just posting the roster on here or making a Facebook page with it as one of the posts would be fine. Nothing fancy required. Congrats to those who pull this game together. You do a great job and I look forward to it every year.

This was a really good football game. Wish there had been a roster published somewhere as that would have made it more enjoyable. I could not find a roster anywhere. Does anyone know what happened to the East team #8 QB at the end of the game? I really hate seeing a kid get injured in an end of the year game like that. I was freezing by then and maybe I missed something but I really didn't understand how the end of the game was played out with each team getting the ball seemingly out of turn a couple times and the clock not even running part of the time. E&H was a great facility for this game. Looking forward to next year.

How early are you recommending? If I go I'll be leaving from Kingsport, TN on that Saturday.

I told you GC had a shot at this. Final SS 41 - GC 37 with GC receiver getting tackled on 4th down at the 1 yard line with time expiring. Reminded me of my favorite game in this series when GC won 31-28 with South runner getting tackled inside the 5 near the end of the game. That was GC's last state championship season I think.

what is the split in the series?

Well just heard that one of our best LB's is injured. GC definitely has a shot in this game. This is the weakest Rebel team in maybe 10 or more years.

Ok, no topic on this by GC fans in first 2 pages - didn't look any further. This is your year to get your 2nd win against the Rebels. They are having a very difficult season so far and I'm predicting that they will be 0-5 before playing Central later in the year. If you've got a passing game you'll be in good shape. Rebels can play pretty stout against the run this year though. What are the Blue Devils bringing to Death Valley this year?

We probably did run into each other. I married a GC girl.

Yep I was there. Maybe I just got along with people better.

Were you there? You gotta be kidding. Lynn View and Ketron were rivals in some ways but the sports that were most competitive pre-consolidation were the ones that gelled the quickest. Fantastic basketball teams right out of the gate, state title baseball teams within 2 or 3 years, football was middlin but unfortunately the good football coach got the AD job and the other one just never did much. The Lynn Garden and Bloomingdale communities were too much alike to support an us vs them feud.

The first choice being Norris from North or are you referring to someone else?

If you have to ground and pound game plan taking a long time to score each time and circumstances occur that result in you getting a couple scores down on the scoreboard then I think it is a pretty fair blanket statement to say that your ability to recover from that scenario is much more limited compared to a quick-strike type of team when time is running out in the 3rd and 4th quarters.

Back in the 60's and 70's there were plenty of NETN teams playing SWVA teams. In 1979 or so was when all the school consolidation happened in NETN and those new schools with populations of 1500+ were really too big to be scheduling Powell Valley/Appy/GC. During that time most of the NETN schools were in the Big 10 conference and therefore only had one non-conference game each year so there wasn't even much flexibility in scheduling. In 1991 Kingsport annexed half of Norths territory so it got cut down to about 700 real quick and started scheduling teams in SWVA regularly. South didn't start playing GC until Souths population started dropping too. They will probably be between 700 to 800 students over the next couple years.I'll be seeing a lot of SWVA games this year. Will be trying to make several trips to Union to see a kid I go to church with play his Senior year.