A 9 game conference schedule is outta wack...some folks play five home/four away while others play four home/five away. Stick with 8 and tell Notre Dame to either go "all in" or get the f^$& out...
Thanks bigrhsfan...I told some of my coworkers from Richlands this week that I expected Bluefield to win but make no mistake about it that Mance will have his team ready to play and wiil give Bluefield a game and true to form the young men from Richlands did not give up. Good luck the rest if the season and hope the Staten kid is ok.
Congrats to Bluefield on their win tonight ! Good luck the rest of the season and hope you guys win another state ! I hope Coltons injury is not any type of injury that will keep him out for many games. I also want to say i am proud of the kids from Richlands for playing hard and giving their all !
Congrats to Bluefield on their win tonight ! Good luck the rest of the season and hope you guys win another state ! I hope Coltons injury is not any type of injury that will keep him out for many games. I also want to say i am proud of the kids from Richlands for playing hard and giving their all !
What makes you think that it was Freddys idea not playing Richlands the past five years? I thought it was Mance that did not renew the series after the 07 and 08 series.
As an employee for Norfolk Southern for Twenty-Six years this is the worst I have seen it. In 2009 it got so bad that I was demoted from locomotive engineer to conductor for about three months. When worked finally picked back up anyone who was qualified as an locomotive engineer was promoted and because of this it left a shortage of conductors. Because of the shortage of conductors NS held hiring sessions and panicked and hired way too many. I have had upper management tell me that NS has privately admitted this mistake and due to the economy the way it is and the demand for coal is down it has come back to bite them in the a$$. As of right now I am still a locomotive engineer but I do not have a lot of younger guys below me in engineer seniority which means back to conductor status if more seniority moves are made.
I remember that game the next year, it started off with a couple of holding calls against Richlands even though they had a much better team than us that year. I know coach Mance has never made a statement like that. He is always very complementary of the other team. Okay who has ever heard a coach make a statement like that about officials.
It was in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph a couple of years back when word was going around that Bluefield and Richlands were in talks about renewing the series. Mance was talking about the 2002 game and talked about the questionable calls, but he also said that the 2008 game was very well officated and that Bluefield just beat them hands down. I personally read it myself.
I don't mind playing Bluefield in VA. The last time we played them in Richlands they beat us on a last second field goal, it was a hard fought game and they beat us fair and square in a game that could have went either way. That is fine in my book I can handle being beat by a better team or even by a good team that gets a few breaks or good bounces. I just don't think you can get a fair shake at Mitchell late in the season, if you play them in the 1st three games or so you MIGHT get a fair shake. I've seen it happen to much. Somebody please mark my words in two years if I'm wrong I will eat crow.
And the following year Bluefield beat Richlands 35-14 at Mitchell Stadium and Coach Mance said that was the best officated game that he had witnessed.
Hope that VT and Cinn both win tomm so we all get to see the matchup in the Orange Bowl. What do you guys think the point spread will be Ill guess VT by 7
Then in West Virginia only the top 8 teams in each class qualified for post-season play as opposed to 16 now. I think there was a time when only the top four made it in WV.
At one time only the top two ranked teams played for the WV championship. Back in the 60's Bluefield went undefeated one year and did not play for the AAA State Title due to the fact that they only played nine games and was penalized for it. If the current playoff system in WV was implemented in the 60's, Bluefield could have possibly won more titles.
Washington (CNN) -- Frank Buckles, the last living U.S. World War I veteran, has died, a spokesman for his family said Sunday. He was 110.
Buckles "died peacefully in his home of natural causes" early Sunday morning, the family said in a statement sent to CNN late Sunday by spokesman David DeJonge.
Buckles marked his 110th birthday on February 1, but his family had earlier told CNN he had slowed considerably since last fall, according his daughter Susannah Buckles Flanagan, who lives at the family home near Charles Town, West Virginia.
Buckles, who served as a U.S. Army ambulance driver in Europe during what became known as the "Great War," rose to the rank of corporal before the war ended. He came to prominence in recent years, in part because of the work of DeJonge, a Michigan portrait photographer who had undertaken a project to document the last surviving veterans of that war.
As the years continued, all but Buckles had passed away, leaving him the "last man standing" among U.S. troops who were called "The Doughboys."
DeJonge found himself the spokesman and advocate for Buckles in his mission to see to it that his comrades were honored with a monument on the National Mall, alongside memorials for veterans of World War II and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.
Buckles made history when he was asked to testify in Congress on the matter before a House committee on December 3, 2009.
"I have to," he told CNN when he came to Washington, as part of what he considered his responsibility to honor the memory of fellow-veterans.
Buckles, after World War I ended, took up a career as a ship's officer on merchant vessels. He was captured by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II and held prisoner of war for more than three years before he was freed by U.S. troops.
Never saying much about his POW experience, Buckles instead wanted attention drawn to the plight of the D.C. War Memorial. During a visit to the run-down, neglected site a few years ago, he went past the nearby World War II memorial without stopping, even as younger veterans stopped and saluted the old soldier in his wheelchair as he went by.
Renovations to the structure began last fall, but Buckles, with his health already failing, could not make a trip to Washington to review the improvements. The National Park Service is overseeing efforts that include replacing a neglected walkway and dressing up a deteriorated dome and marble columns.
Details for services and arrangements will be announced in the days ahead, the family statement said.
Flanagan, his daughter, said preliminary plans began weeks ago, with the Military District of Washington expressing its support for an honors burial at Arlington, including an escort platoon, a horse-drawn casket arrival, a band and a firing party.
"It has long been my father's wish to be buried in Arlington, in the same cemetery that holds his beloved General Pershing," Flanagan wrote as she began to prepare for the inevitable in a letter she sent to home-state U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia.
"I feel confident that the right thing will come to pass," she said.
In addition to graveside ceremonies, a proposal from U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, calls for a memorial in the U.S. Capitol, where Buckles' casket would be displayed with honors.
Buckles in 2008 attended Veterans Day ceremonies at Arlington at the grave of Gen. John Pershing, the commander of U.S. troops during World War I.
He also had met with then-President George W. Bush at the White House, and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates at the Pentagon.
"The First World War is not well understood or remembered in the United States," Gates said at the time. "There is no big memorial on the National Mall. Hollywood has not turned its gaze in this direction for decades. Yet few events have so markedly shaped the world we live in."
Buckles' family asks that donations be made to the National World War I Legacy Project to honor Frank Buckles and the 4,734,991 Americans that he served with during World War I. Details can be found at: http://www.frankbuckles.org
You can't be a Chiefs and Raiders fan at the same time...not possible...
You got that right!...Big Chiefs fan and remembered some of the battles between the Chiefs and Raiders in the late 60's and 70's. My Mother was a huge Raiders fan and if the Raiders lost it was soup and sandwiches for dinner...If Raiders won then it was a meal fit for a king!
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Was that the 1997 game?