LacesOutDan23

Playoff format now, even with its flaws, are light years ahead of where they used to be.

Cant argue, I was there playing and lived it haha. Good point.

Why are 2004 and 2013 considered luck up years?

Why didn't Flea kick last week?

Possible trap game for Graham looking ahead to Richlands. Not a repeat of last year.

Great Question and to piggyback off the question, along with area players since 2000, pick players from this season's teams.

Found out last night this is the first trip Tazewell has made to Hurley.

Any other year it would be Beaver at Richlands. Saw Beaver last week and they are as good as advertised but Tazewell exposed some chinks in the armor and got in their heads a little bit. Richlands has a punchers chance, considering last week's win at William Byrd. Beaver's DBs will be put to the test, that is if Beavers D-Line doesn't make it to Moir consistently. Richlands will be able to get at least one score simply based on the fact that Beaver took off some plays last week at Tazewell. Still I think Beaver loses at least one game this season but sweeps Tazewell County again. But VA High at Chilhowie takes the spot. I think it is a good, close game but the Warriors wear down the Bearcats in this one. Rose is heck of a player, but even he cant do it all. They just need to find someone to step up and spell him and I have read they are trying out things. Lucky to be able to do that now before getting into the meat of their schedule and district play. Chilhowie is on a revenge path for every team that put an L in their column last year and VA High is next. Regardless of class, Chilhowie is top to bottom one of the better area teams including one of the most disciplined. But if I were a betting man, I'm putting all my money on the team in Black and Orange.

Given the ties each of the past two week of the NFL, do you like the overtime rules as they are in high school or could you ever stomach a tie in a football game or even a band competition (for Ryan)

I have no idea. But cannot you really do any worse of a job there? I think he would be successful in getting kids out and excited and possibly even getting the community behind him. I'm from Tazewell, we've lived this scenario.

Agree. Then Reed returns the favor when he takes over as head coach in 1-2 years.

Union Abingdon Buckhannor Upshur, WV Fort Chiswell Blacksburg Radford Eastside Richlands Tennessee High, TN Ridgeview Alleghany, NC Honaker Chilhowie Bland Glenvar Holston Narrows Rye Cove Twin Valley Patrick Henry Northwood Thomas Walker Bluefield 59 Tazewell 49

Sweet!

It has frightened me, I wont lie. But The risk of injury is in every sports. I think I may have had one more concussion in football than i did in soccer. And elbow problems from baseball still bother me to this day. The rules against the old-fashioned tactics have helped the game from an injury standpoint, but sacrificed some of the sanctity of the traditional ways. The glory of football is that you don't necessarily have to be a player to contribute. Look at you with the podcast. It's awesome! I follow it to a tee and I have heard you mention many times that you didn't even play (and I even overlook your contractual obligation to oppose anything Kelly Green lol). People will always continue to follow football and its incredible integration into our way of life. As far as me as a parent and if I had a son, I would make sure that I coached him the right way to tackle and monitor his health very closely but i wouldn't essentially hold him out from playing altogether. Every lesson i learned and apply to life was learned on the football field, more so Mon-Thurs and Sat-Sun. Friday nights were times to shine but the other days taught you about life.

The stigma of football has scared parents away from the game. They will still follow and cheer, but they don't want their kids playing. Tazewell's knock against football goes back to Coach Perry making kids choose between sports, and by choose I mean quit football. That's why out football number dwindled and little baseball number rocket. Hopefully, this will reverse some of the thought processes.

Tazewell has adopted something similar for their PeeWee program. I believe it is 7-on-7 but I'm not sure. Still tackle with older kids with pads.

Let's ask Carlock together, shall we?

In our area and was told that. Plain and simple

We do need a solid vendor. We just don't have a Carlock that went from one end to the other and made BSN exclusive to only Graham. Its nice, but Kelly Green still pops better over that anthracite haha.

Alright, This is the great debate of Tazewell. Ask anyone and according to age and if they played, you will get different answers. Kelly Green and White are official colors. The Gold has dabbled for awhile. Tazewell great John Rainey wore uniforms with Gold trim then they went away until Litz brought then back in the mid-80s during our heyday. After Litz left so did the yellow, Hart was strictly green and white. Wyatt's first year he wanted some black added and it got shot down so he went with Gold pants towards the end of his tenure. I think Smith was the one who ordered the Grey 80's Eagles lookalikes, tho I liked them. Allen brought the black. It is a hot button issue in our town, but only in every sport other than baseball. Lou Perry teams always had a black jersey and not an eyelash was batted at them. Every other team has had to succumb to the "only green and white" rule at least once. Cheerleaders still wore yellow into the mid 2000s and every some black in there now. Soccer dabbled with black until it was forced out and got stuck with hunter green uniforms. Now every team has sported black in some fashion. I love Kelly Green and White and I'm kind of old school with uniforms, but having black as an accent color makes the green really pop and I'm not alone in that opinion.

I was told that Carlock took the colors from his time in the Marines. BSN (where younger Carlock now is employed) is now the Nike to their Oregon. So the colors shouldn't be shifting anytime soon. I'm a Bulldog and Kelly green is extremely difficult to mimic between suppliers. The one huge pet peeve I had with Graham and helmets and uniforms, especially when I played them, was the yellow gold on the helmet and number shadow and the Vegas gold pants.

Second this. They scream Cardinal and Gold, then randomly you see Maroon. I know the School's academic colors are maroon and gray, would be a much better choice. But then again I cant stand anything Graham so it doesn't matter what they pick.

I wore the the same helmet minus the Gold. Easily the best looking of the choices. The Power T with Bulldog with always be the best logo.

I think this post gave me nightmares. That 03 State team was stacked and mopped us.

Do you have a pic of the Gate City helmets you are referring too? They were blue with white facemasks when I played against them, just cant remember the decal. Always reminded me of the West Canaan Coyotes in Varsity Blues. Tazewell will also have a green helmet this year, i think.