If Hurley moves into Grundy next year and forward, does that force the change for Grundy to be in 2D?
Little more to it than just moving students to Grundy, tell you next time I see you. Going to need more jars of Pear Butter, Uncle Percy has been ill and took most of mine.
Because a lot of local teams don’t want to travel far. I use Hurley as an example. The Cumberland District denied Hurley and Council entry into the district. The Hogoheegee won’t take them either. Some years Hurley has problems getting a football schedule. Remember it’s just as far for Hurley to travel to another school as it is for that school to travel to Hurley. As of now, next year there will only be one Black Diamond District Football game, Grundy/Hurley, since Honaker joined the Hogoheegee and they refused Grundy and the Cumberland refused Hurley. Division 1 schools in Region D need to work closer together.
Little Leonard here folks. Uncle Percy first reply was, “are they serious or crazy? They’ll be rising from their graves”. However, it only took Uncle Percy a couple of minutes to come up with a new name and nickname. New River High Muskellunges or better known as “Muskies”. (One mean ar$e fish). Took a little longer on the colors. Can’t use Giles’ Powell Valley look alike colors or Narrows’ mini Packers colors. Uncle Percy decided on Black and Orange colors.
Lil’ Leonard here folks with Uncle Percy’s biggest losers. We believe that most people who get on this site know that Uncle Percy absolutely deplores The West Roanoke Banny Roosters. If some of you haven’t figured it out yet, they also go by Salem. Uncle Percy says the only good thing you can say about West Roanoke is that it’s a convenient place for a pit stop. Uncle Percy has decided not to list them in the Losers List anymore, but to give them a special designation. Uncle Percy has decided to declare them Loser Emeritus. The reason, there are some other losers that need to be recognized. Well here they are.
Well Folks, after reading a lot of the off season and recent comments on this site, Uncle Percy said we definitely need to step in and pick this years Losers and expose the so called “Mamby Pamby Millennial Experts” who wouldn’t know a cow patty from a horse biscuit. We’ve noticed that VHSL realignment has brought about its usual 4 year craziness and it looks like the Buchanan County teams are about to get the short end of the stick. More on this later on. Could be a crazy year in Russell County, Uncle Percy said he couldn’t ever remember a county having to hire new head football coaches (3) for every county school. Maybe Mr. Researcher might know if this has happened before or of something similar. This could be a crazy year, but Mr. GMan’s Revenuers, The Ridge Pack, probably Sixcat’s Fiddle Players, and Union_Fan’s Bear Cubs (they may start slow but probably finish strong) will more than likely be the “Big Dogs”. Mr. GMan, thanks and we’ll try to keep Uncle Percy calm, but could he have 2 Mulligans this year. Let’s pick some losers.
Richlands @ Gate City
This used to be one of the biggest and hardest games of the year and to pick a loser. Some years this game was so tough to pick a loser we would have to sneak and use Grandpa Clovis’ Fightin’ Rooster Ol’ Phantom to pick a loser. Ol’ Phantom always picked the right Loser. The Blue Devils have been on the downs in recent years, however it looks like Ol’ Coach Hosswright may have gotten his Blue Imps headed in the right direction from what little we have heard. Over the last few years, The Big Blue Win Machine has slowly became The Little Blue Losing Machine. Uncle Percy watched The Slate Crik Crawdads crawl all over the Blues last week. One of the experts on this site called The Blues “a work in progress”. Uncle Percy’s definition of that statement - they are bad. Tazewell Co. has band all noise makers at home games this year, however Richlands fans had better take some earplugs to Gate City because they’re going to need them this Friday. Look for Gate City to make a lot of noise this Friday Nite. Uncle Percy was wondering if the Devils still have that big noise maker they used to blow.
Lil’ Leonard’s Loser:
The Little Blue Losing Machine
Graham/Bluefield, WV
Uncle Percy calls this the Game of the Year in SWVA. If you’ve never been, you should go at least once. We’ve been several times. This year, they’ll probably be around 8500 to 9000 fans. Don’t believe us, asked Mr. GMan or Mr. Reseacher. Both teams are coming off a good year. The Revenuers got to the State Finals and The Flattails got to the State Semifinals. The Revenuers are looking at beating The Flattails in back to back years since 2005 and 2006. Both teams lost good players from last year, but that seldom slows these two teams down when they play each other. This may be this years’ hardest pick and we can’t use Ol’ Phantom to help us (we’ve talked about this game for 2 weeks). We know The Flattails will be coming up from the bottom of the pond with their tails on fire after losing to The Revenuers and Princeton last year. Sorry Mr. Researcher, but unless The Revenuers come in overconfident look for them to make it back-to-back wins since 2006.
Lil’ Leonard’s Loser:
The Flattails
Tazewell @ Virginia High
Last Year the Nascar Cats started their season with a blaze at the Tazewell Dog Pound and blazed their way to one of their best seasons in years surprising a lot of people. This year The Fast Cats will not be a big surprise and may find it a little tougher racing down the sidelines. This year the Bull Pups return one of the better passing duos in the area with several other Bull Pups that know how to play catch. Spider-Man Harris starts this season with a good chance of breaking the VHSL receptions record. This game has the makings for a high scoring affair with the Bull Pups and Nascar Cats chasing each other all over the field. However, when the final flag drops and the dust clears, the Nascar Cats prevail in a close one.
Lil’ Leonard’s Loser:
Tazewell
Lebanon @ Honaker
Things may seem a little strange at Honaker this season. Coach Hubbard has retired after many seasons as the Head Tiger, but the Tigers will adjust quickly. They’ll have to because a bunch of long hunters will be rolling in on Thursday looking to bag a bunch of tiger pelts. Both teams have new Head Coaches and both will be wanting that first win badly. However, the Big A Mountain Tigers will have a couple of new tricks up their sleeves that’ll send the Long Hunters back down the Red Bud Highway licking their wounds.
Lil’ Leonard’s Loser:
Lebanon
On another note, we hear that Ellen & Helen College has moved up to play Division 2. Ouch, they’ve definitely crawled into the wrong nest.
Blues are a work in progress. Still had 3 OL/DL out tonight (two should be back for GC next week) and our best WR.
This is a team that has 2 players who have taken meaningful varsity snaps before. So it’s gonna gonna take a while.
Unfortunately they lost their starting MLB tonight and it looks like it may be a season ended.
I could see a season similar to last year. But if they have some injuries with the most difficult schedule in SWVA, could be a long season.
Uncle Percy and Cousin Delbert went to this game. Uncle Percy said that if the Blues are a work in progress then they had better start taking shorter lunches and start putting in more overtime.
Wreak Havoc????? Uncle Percy says, “Question is could they survive. In those days there lived headhunters called DBs, LBs, DEs and QBs, RBs, WRs were fair game, especially WRs crossing the middle.” Uncle said he would love to see it, especially running an inside slant against some of those “bad ar$e” OLBs at Gate City, Appalachia, Clintwood, Graham, Bluefield, WV. and a few others. Didn’t have a lot of these Mamby Pamby rules they have today protecting QBs, RBs, and Receivers.
Cousin Delbert was supposed to have posted this the other day for Uncle Percy. I swear Cousin Delbert could make a Bull in a China Shop look like a Ballerina.
It's amazing how different the sport of football was in that era. I'd love to drop a Cassius Harris or Brandon Beavers in 1979 just to see what kind of havoc they'd wreak. The margins between success and failure are razor thin today,
Wreak Havoc????? Uncle Percy says, “Question is could they survive. In those days there lived headhunters called DBs, LBs, DEs and QBs, RBs, WRs were fair game, especially WRs crossing the middle.” Uncle said he would love to see it, especially running an inside slant against some of those “bad ar$e” OLBs at Gate City, Appalachia, Clintwood, Graham, Bluefield, WV. and a few others. Didn’t have a lot of these Mamby Pamby rules they have today protecting QBs, RBs, and Receivers.
Lil’ Leonard here. Uncle Percy has decided that we are going to Bluefield on Sept. 30 to watch Mr. G-Man’s Revenuers put the Tombstone Piledriver on George Wythe. Uncle Percy was hesitant about pickin’ this game. He was Afraid George Wythe might come up with one of their famous “half @r$e” excuses to get out of playing it. We’ll probably be in Bluefield on Aug. 26., good game and a great 50/50.
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So who wins 1D?
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Maybe you should go play in the alumni band, because in reality you don’t know as much football as you think you do.