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Time for our Loser’s Poll. 1 - West Roanoke Banty Roosters 2 - Abington Blue Buzzards 3 - South Abington Baby Buzzards 4 - George Wythe Maroon Macaroons 5 - West Abington Chariot Riders We hear that a lot of the South Abingtonites already have the Baby Buzzards playing in Salem next Saturday. They must not know much about those Galax Fiddlers. Typical Abington arrogance. Arrogance equates to a Loser, even if you win.

City of Champions????? City of Whiny Wimps. Champions don’t go crying and whining to get the VHSL to move playoff sites because they are afraid they are going to lose like Salem did to Grundy in 1996. A true champion reaches down for that little extra to overcome an obstacle to be a winner. A wimp arse loser whines, complains, makes excuses, and tries to get things changed to their advantage or to disadvantage their opponent. As for City of Champions, you might ought to check out how many state championships Martinsville has in football and basketball and Grundy has in wrestling (20 plus). Hokiebird, after reading some of your rude comments to a couple of posters on this site, we have figured you out and which of the above is the best fit for you. Uncle Percy says you need to change your handle to Arrogant Peacock. Mr. GMan, Uncle Percy says to cash in all of his Mulligans if you think this is too bad or just go ahead and slam The Hammer.

Uncle Percy says that sounds like something those whining wimps at West Roanoke would pull. Uncle Percy Geography Lesson: West Roanoke is what all you know nothing whiny politically correct Mamby Pamby Millennials call Salem. Also known as Whinersville.

You must not be from SWVA? Well Hokiebird, Uncle Percy would tell you it’s a place where you can find “tons” of hot air, bull snot, snobs, Politically Correct Mamby Pamby Millennials, and put ons. Only decent thing Uncle Percy has ever said about the place is that it’s a handy spot for a pit stop.

Lil’ Leonard here folks. There is a coach available for all you dissatisfied Mamby Pamby Millennial Union Fans. He was just fired. Skip Holtz. Mr. GMan, please don’t drop the Hammer. Just use one of Uncle Percy’s Mulligans. Speaking of Hammers, ever since you threatened the Hammer, Cousin Delbert has been dancing around singin’ Hammer Time. Thinks he’s M.C. Hammer.

We’re being a little slow or rather stuffed and lazy this weekend in pickin’ losers. Three weeks ago Cousin Delbert said that if Fairmont Senior (#16) beat President Hoover’s high school (#1) they would be in the championship game. After The Flattails (#14) 1st round win over The (#3) Pointers, Cousin Delbert laughed and said they could go all the way. Oh well, that’s Cousin Delbert thinking and he’s been on a roll with his pickin’s lately. Ridgeview @ Graham The Ridge Wolves appear to have gotten that late season hitch in their giddy up corrected. They survived the The Jinx of Richlands’ Lucky Horseshoe and knocked Coach Nature Boy Owens’s Warriors back down Space Mountain. Up next, The Revenuers. The Revenuers have thus far made it look easy in the playoffs, especially last week’s skinning of the U Bears. That could be a little bit of a problem for The Revenuers as they get deeper into the Playoffs. Even though the Ridge Wolves appear to be back on track they still won’t have enough to escape The Revenuers. It’ll be a better chase than last week but The Revenuers will have the Wolves trapped by the start of the 4th. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Ridgeview Parry McClurer @ Galax Last Friday Cousins Claude and Delbert rode up to “The Single Wang Grill” to check out a band called The Fighting Blues make some gridiron music. Cousin Delbert though they were going to eat some chicken wings. This Blues band has been on a successful tour of late with 8 successes in a row and left P-Burg with a ninth big win. This week The Fighting Blues Band in “On The Road Again” to Galax where they know a thing or too about making some music on the gridiron. Now the Galax Fiddlers has usually been the band from C to beat for several years now if you want to play in Salem. The Fighting Blues may be a physical playing bunch, however they are going to learn a lesson like that Old Devil that went down to Georgia, tough to beat a Fiddler on his home turf. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Parry McCluer Patrick Henry @ Holston It looks like the Rowdy Rebels have rediscovered their offensive mojo the last couple of games and just in time as they take on the South Abington Baby Buzzards. The Rowdy Rebels lost to these Baby Buzzards earlier in the year and will be looking for a little revenge this Friday. Last Friday the Baby Buzzards caught a bunch of Crawdads by playing 8 to 9 catchers in the box. They won’t be able to do that this week because the Rowdy Rebels will be attacking with revenge and running wild. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: South Abington Lord Botetourt @ Abington We don’t know much about this crew except they Lost to E.C. Glass, Riverheads (who doesn’t) & Appomattox (oops) and beat Christiansburg. So they can’t be as big as Losers as The Blue Buzzards. Christiansburg, that’s who beat Abington. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Abington Blue Buzzards

Bluefield Reseacher, will all due respect, Uncle Percy says you are wrong. There’s more than 33 expert coaches on here. Also, Cousins Claude and Delbert have came up with the solution to solve the so called problems at Union. Fire all the coaches and make Union’s Hammer the head and only Union Coach.

Lil’ Leonard here folks, we got our little technical problem fixed and would like to thank Cousin Hoyt for posting this week’s Losers for us.

Sorry Folks for being late. We’ve had some of those technical difficulties on Possum Tail and a headache called Cousin Delbert. Would any of you like to participate in Cousin Claude’s New Social Program? It’s called “Adopt a Cousin” and he already has a candidate for adoption (Cousin Delbert). Cousin Claude got his idea from all those Woke Programs that Woke Joe, Nancy Pe-Lost-It, Crazy Bernie, and that Coffee Maid are trying to push through Congress. Best part of Cousin Claude’s Program, it won’t raise your taxes. Well, think on it. Now to the Losers. Grundy @ Chilhowie Old Charlie Dickens once wrote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. That sort of sums these 2 football teams for the past month. The I-81 Road Warriors were on a roll winning 7 in a row, then have gone on a 3 game losing streak. The Slate Crik Crawdads were on a downhill roll toward missing the Playoffs until they got their tails moving in the right direction ( Bass Ackards ) and got on a winning streak, except for a little bump called Wise-Central, to back into the Playoffs. This game is probably going to be close. We hear we could have a cold, rainy night for it. That sounds like a typical November Friday night for Nelson Memorial Stadium, so the Crawdads should feel at home. If it is, The I-81 Warriors could have fits chasing a bunch of Crawdads in the mud in their flat moccasins. These Crawdads can move pretty darn good in the mud. Just look at what happen to The Rowdy Rebels from Glade a couple of weeks ago. No upset here. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Chilhowie Twin Valley @ Patrick Henry Looks like Coach Ward discovered the potion or spell to break The Poison Pen Hex with 2 big wins last week. Cousin Delbert (Remember, Adopt a Cousin) was telling us about a person over on Loggy Bottom that could break hexes and spells, and also remove warts, so Coach Ward must have also. We had picked the Loser for this game earlier until we got the news last night that The Rowdy Rebels we’re NOT going to play this game on the Wasper Rug, but in the grass and hopefully mud at The Glade. If true, we figure The Rowdy Rebels would rather have the Cooper kid that scored all those TDS (15) in 3 games a churning in the mud (Rebels hoping for rain) than running wild on a rug. Makes sense. However, Cousin Delbert thinks that The Poison Pen Hex has been put back on the Pilgram Knob Cats because of a certain post on a certain web site. His reasoning, “They moved the game from that fake grass”. Well we believe that The Rowdy Rebels won’t need hexes or spells but a few good defensive stands to win this one. However, The Rowdy Rebels better beware, The Cooper kid could also be a “Mud Dobber”. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Twin Valley VA High @ Union VCats, Uncle Percy said your team got the shortest end of the stick in the history of short ended sticks. #2 in the Power Ratings and the Road. Uncle Percy had some other things to say which we will not repeat because GMan, The Head Revenuer, would definitely have to use a time out. However he was comparing and talking about 1996 West Roanoke Clowns. Anyway, tough break for the Racing Cats as they will now have to go race in a Bear Den. This Bear Den is usually not a very good place to visit in November. It can be downright nasty. The Bearcats have had a heck of a season and The U Bears have had a stumble or two. This game could very well turn into a high scoring game, similar to the VA High/Spotswood game. One big difference though, The Bears power game will prove the difference and will slow the Racing Cats down enough even if they’re running on a higher octane for the win and a Graham rematch (?). Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Virginia High Ridgeview @ Richlands Ridgeview Beware. You may have won earlier but beware. The Little Blue Fizzle Machine has found some extra fizzle. In other words for you Ridgeview fans and others, THEY have found their Famous Lucky Horse Shoe. That’s right, first time in The VHSL Playoffs, that we know of, a #6 (Power Ratings) gets to host a first round playoff game. On the other hand, all you Little Blue Fizzle Machine Fans, The Ridge Wolves are probably licking their chops because instead of having to play Union or Wise-Central, they get to play a team that they have already slobber knocked. They may have looked like the Big Blue Win Machine against VA High, but We don’t think that Lucky Horse Shoe is going to make much of a difference tonight for the Blues. Look for a Big Blue Fizzle Out and a lot of howl in’ by the Ridge Wolves. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Little Blue Fizzle Machine Goodness gracious, Uncle Percy is now mumbling something about loose screws and burned out lightbulbs. Lee High @ Graham DUH???? Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: DUH Covington @ George Wythe Covington Forfeits. The Maroon Macaroons get a few extra days to think about next week’s butt kickin’ Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: George Wythe Don’t forget Cousin Claude’s “Adopt a Cousin Program”. He already has a Cousin for adoption. How about VCats?

You’ve probably read from time to time we use a phrase known as “a can of T-Bone’s Whoop Arse”. Well Folks, T-Bone is a real person. Back in the 80s there was this little kid at Hurley who would stand at the top of the steps, with his Father, where The Cliff Rebs came out the locker to go upon the field. This little fella was about 4 years old and hadn’t started school yet. As The Cliff Rebs walked by he would tell them “you boys need to open up a can of whip ass tonight”. Well Little T-Bone grew up into a Big T-Bone for The Cliff Rebs and went on to play college football and along the way he opened up a few cans of “Whoop Arse”. This is a story that Cousin Hoyt and Uncle Percy told us.

Well as Great-Granny Chloë is always reminding about not counting your diddies before they hatch, we believe these diddies have already hatch and are pullet size. Over here on Possum Tail Road, we love nothing more than to see The Cliff Rebs open up a can of T-Bone’s Whoop Arse and skin the Knob Cats and knock them out of the Playoffs. Rural Retreat would love it too, a Hurley win would put them in. However, so much for wishful thinking, we’re afraid even if The Cliff Rebs opened up a case of T-Bone’s Whoop Arse it just wouldn’t be enough. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Hurley #6 Twin Valley Rural Retreat still gets to drink their Mountain Dew

Twin Valley #6 Eastside #7 George Wythe is 6-3 unofficial if Giles loses to Glenvar we figured their rating 21.5 Parry McCluer picked up a boat load of points, we figured 37 pts, their rating 20.6 remember unofficial

Uncle Percy said We might as well call this the Wednesday Edition since so many games are being played during the week. First oft, did you hear about all of the flash flood of tears in Northern Virginia. Seems like those Old Republicans went out and won a bunch of elections yesterday and flipped a House. If you haven’t read about it or seen the TV News Programs, there’s more finger pointing and accusing going on than in a packed room of people where someone discharged one of those smelly silent farts that just clings in the air, on the walls and you are asking people quietly “Is it on me?”. Yes Sir, Rachel Maddow is blaming Fox News, a bunch are accusing Weak Knee Joe Manchin of WV for not supporting Woke Joe, blaming Donald J. Trump, uneducated, Wal Mart shopping Deplorables, parents who are concerned about their kids education, you know, those “Terrorist Parents”. The list goes on and on. Great-Grandmother Chloe always said “When you point your finger at someone, you have 3 fingers pointing back at you”. Best not say what Grandpa Cletus said about excuses. There be some young readers on here, and it would really, really upset the Politically Correct Mamby Pamby Millennials who get on here. Now for the Losers. Honaker @ (?) Twin Valley Believe it or not, this game is one of the most important games of the year. It’s for a District Championship and a playoff spot. The Loser of this game could miss The Playoffs depending on if Eastside and Thomas Walker win and how the Bonus Points shake out of the Bag. We all know Dean Hubbard, The Dean of Coaches in SWVA, is retiring after this season. You know he wants to retire with another BDD Championship and playoff trip to go along with this year’s Buzzard’s Roost Trophy. Talk about Flipping the House, if Coach Ward can get his Knob Cats’ claws sharp enough and find a way to break the Poison Pen Hex of The Bristol Newspaper, A Twin Valley win could mean a BDD Championship and a possible playoff encounter with Chilhowie. A Lost could mean no playoff game for the Knob Cats. However, The Big-A Cats definitely know what’s at stake and will want to deliver for Coach Hubbard’s last regular season football game in a big way. Look for Coach Hubbard and his Tigers to cross Drill Mountain and give the Knob Cats a drilling they want forget because they probably want find a cure for the Poison Pen Hex in time. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Twin Valley Marion @ Graham We hear that this game may be played on Thursday, so we decided why not. We all know that The Revenuers are going to be the #1 seed in the 2D Playoffs and that the road to the semifinals runs through Mitchell Stadium. We keep hearing something about a 1-4 across District standings instead of 1-8 power points. This is Ridiculous in our opinion. Uncle Percy and Cousin Hoyt say that whoever “thunk” this up is a lot of sandwiches shy of a picnic or are trying to pull a 1996 West Roanoke to get away playing someone (Graham), in this case till maybe the 3rd round of the Playoffs and hoping for an upset before then. For you younger people, in the 1996 semi finals, the West Roanoke Banty Rooster’s Coaches and a certain Assistant Principal kept whining to the VHSL about having to play at Grundy. One of this whiny bunch Claimed that Grundy’s field didn’t meet their conditions and standards, also afraid of Crowd control. All this was brought about by a certain person from Abington after Grundy gave them a good thumping in the Regional finals. It got back that this person told a Salem Coach that if they played at Grundy they were a 2TD underdog. Thus started the whining and the game was moved to Tazewell to worst field conditions and weather. So we hope someone is not trying to pull something here. So the only thing The Revenuers have to worry about the Candy Canes is that no one chips a tool. Candy Canes, Christmas is coming unless Woke Joe and Dr. Fauci decide to cancel it. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: The Candy Canes Footnote: Now you know why Uncle Percy and Cousin Hoyt always refer to West Roanoke and Abington as being the Biggest Losers. They were witnesses to all this. Oh the tales these two can tell about football from the 60s through the 90s into the 2000s and who they saw play.

This is odd, pickin’ Losers on a Tuesday. Uncle Percy is still not too happy about all these Tuesday and Thursday Games but is starting to come around to the reasons behind these games. Uncle Percy is on Cloud 9 today folks. The reason, it’s Election Day and we have a high school football game to go to on Election Day. Two of Uncle Percy’s favorite things in life are high school football and politics. Uncle Percy was up very, very early this morning to go vote and told us all what time we were leaving to go to tonight’s game or rather afternoon game. Uncle Percy hopes all you people get out to vote and take, make, and call other people go and vote. He says that is a very, very important election for Governor. Uncle Percy says we shore don’t need this character that says parents should have no say in what schools teach our children, grandchildren, and for some, their great-grandchildren. Uncle Percy says since our tax dollars pay for public education then the parents and the people should have the final say not the Government. Uncle Percy says to be smart and not vote for The Loser. Patrick Henry @ Grundy (5:40?) The Rowdy Rebels of The Glade won a close one over the I-81 Warriors this past Friday. This game was much closer than we figured it would be. The Rowdy Rebels have shown that can put up some big numbers in their games, however the last couple of games they having been scoring as much and have been close. This could be a bit of a problem as they travel to The Slate Crik today. The Crawdads have been slowing backing into the Playoffs. Two weeks ago #10, last week #9, this week #5. The Crawdads have some backward momentum going, remember Crawdads always move Bass Acwards, and this could present a big problem for the Rowdy Rebels in trying to catch them. Another thing the Rowdy Rebels have to lookout for is the Crawdads secret weapon that they sometimes have in November. Uncle Percy and Cousin Claude say the conditions are perfect for The Crawdads to use this secret weapon for this big game. Upset Special. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Patrick Henry Craig County (3-5) @ Bath County (0-7) Well you are probably wondering if we have finally proven that we are a bunch nuts by selecting this game, but believe or not, this game is important to Region D teams looking to get into the Playoffs. The Pilgram Knob Cats and The Slate Crik Crawdads. The Knob Cats beat Craig Co. earlier in the year before they got hit with The Poison Pen Hex by the Bristol Newspaper. So a Craig Co. win gives Twin Valley another 2 bonus points which they will desperately need if they are going to make the Playoffs. The Slate Crik Crawdads will get 2 bonus points for beating Twin Valley which may help with getting a higher playoff seed. The Rockets are going to blast off to Bath Co. and will find a cold, damp landing site. This should not prove too much of a difficulty because The Chargers haven’t had much charge this year. They have been shut out 5 times and have only scored 18 points this year. Yet, The Rockets have only scored 61 points. Funny thing about games like this, they could turn out entirely different than you think they will or should. We think the Chargers could finally break loose and put some points on the board and give the Rockets a big scare. However, the Rockets should have just enough blast to get out of Bath with a win. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Bath County Virginia Governor’s Race McAuliffe versus Youngkin McAuliffe has brought in the biggest of the big Democrat guns to campaign for him, tells us he’s running like a scared rabbit. Youngkin has slowly been eating into his lead till it’s neck-neck. We believe Youngkin is more a fighter. So no more politicin’. Uncle Percy says get off your butts and go vote. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: McAuliffe

Goodness gracious people, Uncle Percy is madder than an old wet hornet. The cause, these Tuesday and Thursday night football games. He said he didn’t know which was worse, Thursday and Tuesday night football games or the Higgenbottom twins, Danny Bob and Denny Joe. The Higgenbottom boys are from East Abington. Cousin Claude, our Geographer, says some people call that Emory and Meadowview. The Higgenbottom boys showed up on Possum Tail the other day wanting to buy some apples. Actually they were using that as an excuse to see the twins Lou Jean and Lou Ellen. The Higgenbottom boys are big fans of that Coffee Server from New York who got elected to Congress. Said she gave them the idea and inspiration to develop a new breed of fartless cows, which they, believe or not, are trying to do. Yes sir-ree Uncle Percy is upset because he wanted to pick the Slate Crik -Twin Valley and Lee - West Abington games which were Thursday games. So Uncle Percy said to do a post game Loser Review. Grundy @ Twin Valley We already know who The Loser is. Cousin Delbert told us back in September that Twin Valley, which was 4 - 0 at the time, would probably be a Loser for the rest of the season except maybe for Rye Cove and Hurley. Some people thought that Twin Valley could win the BDD this year. Not so said Cousin Delbert. We asked why? Cousin Delbert said because of The Poison Pen Hex that the Bristol newspaper put on. Most people think Cousin Delbert is not the brightest light bulb in the pack or that his elevator does go to the top floor, but this time he may be right. Since that article (9-29), Twin Valley has not a game on the field. The only W is a Rye Cove forfeit. Cousin Delbert says it’s tough to break a Poison Pen Hex. Now the Slate Crik Crawdads, since then, have been backing their way into the Playoffs. Remember, Crawdads always travel Bass Acwards. Guess what the team they may knock out of the Playoffs——Twin Valley. May be something to that Hex. Lil Leonard’s Loser: Bristol Newspaper For Their Hex West Abington @ Lee Another one of those Thursday Night games that we already know who the Loser is. The thing about this game that had Cousin Claude laughing is that a win by The Generals helps eliminate them and helps Gate City in. If you hadn’t noticed Gate City and Lee were in a close battle for the #8 Playoff spot and a trip to Graham. Both teams are going to finish 4-6 and it will come down to 2 or 4 bonus points difference depending on what Eastern Montgomery does in their final 2 games. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Gate City. They’ll probably have a cold, windy, wet night to receive a thumping. Chilhowie @ Patrick Henry We have finally seen that the Warriors are not as good as their record. Last week beat down by the NASCAR Cats showed us this. This bunch of Warriors are in for a rude time this Friday as they take on the Rowdy Rebels of The Glade. The Rebs are going to take care of business the rest of the season and may end up, just maybe, in a #2 playoff spot but it will probably be a #3. There will be no Southern Hospitality in Glade Springs tonight. The Rowdy Rebels by 3 scores. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Chilhowie. Castlewood is playing the best team in the area tonight and it will be over before the end of the 1st quarter. Uncle Percy and I include East Tenn., Southern WV, and Eastern KY in our Losers pickin’s because schools like Thomas Walker, Hurley, Twin Valley, and Grundy have to constantly schedule out of state schools all the time. The reason, too many Mamby Pamby Schools in SWVA complain that it is too far to travel to these 4 schools.

Maybe. But remember, over the years a lot of those schools usually don’t bring the big numbers like A Riverheads or Luenburg Central to Powell Valley. The big gate would come from locals fans. How many locals would show up that probably wouldn’t travel to Salem. Didn’t Clintwood have to travel to Onancock one year? How many people do you think went from Clintwood to Onancock versus people from Onancock to Clintwood if the game had been played in Clintwood. I remember how packed the Clintwood-Bowling Green game was. There people from all over SWVA there. Even the standing fans were packed tight, you couldn’t hardly move.

When Grandpas Clovis and Cletus had all the Clan gathered in for the big hog killings and apple pickin’s those two weeks we missed posting Losers, well it was a very interesting two weeks. Cousin Delbert wanted to know why there wasn’t a Poll for the Losers like all them Polls for the Winners. This got us to thinkin’ and we decided, Why Not. So this is the First Lil’ Leonard’s Losers Poll. Uncle Percy said that if any you Politically Correct Mamby Pamby Millennials get upset, ummmmm who cares. 1- West Roanoke Banty Roosters (*) 2- Abington Blue Buzzards 3- George Wythe Maroon Macroons 4- West Abington Chariot Riders (*) 5- Cedar Bluff Little Blue Fizzle Machine (*) (*) Uncle Percy star translation for the know-nothing Politically Correct Mamby Pamby Millennials and geographically challenged (1) #*&$@+% £¥€[_, (2) Cousin Claude says some people call this East Bristol, (3) Richlands

Not necessarily. Some of these 1st round playoff barely make money after expenses. Hard to believe?????? Football in parts of Virginia is not big like in SWVA and they don’t have a lot of fan travel like we do. This year’s 2D playoffs could have (6,7,8) teams with a 5-5 and 2 losing records. Northern Virginia 6D and 6B will probably have the same 6, 7, 8 team records. Richmond 5C could have 5, 6, 7, 8 with losing records. Bet these 3 2D playoff game involving 6, 7, 8 will have a larger attendance than the same 6D, or 6B, or 5C playoff games. Reclassification, especially 4, 5, and 6, will mean same number of teams, but fewer playoff spots, which means better playoff teams in the 5, 6, 7, and 8 spots, which probably means bigger gates than a lot of First Round break even or losing gates. Remember, The Benjamins will always come first with the VHSL. Think about this, D2 and D1 Championship Games, Graham or Union D2, Holston D1 at UVA-WIse instead of Salem, how bigger would the gate be?

Reclassification… The final decision will be based on what the VHSL always bases it’s final decisions on. The Benjamins, Northern Virginia, and any whining complaints Salem and a couple of other schools may have. Some of us have been around for a long time and have seen how certain schools and areas get preferential treatment from the VHSL. We don’t want to hear any lame excuses defending the VHSL. Heck, some teams in Northern VA and the Charlottesville area think a 45 to 60 minute road trip on a school bus on the Interstate is a rough road trip.

Uncle Percy said to declare the disclaimer before The Mamby Pambys spill their hot cocoa. We did not know that Chilhowie and VA High were playing tonight. Looks like we missed it about being a close game.

Hey Sturgis Bigsby, Cousin Claude said that was the Maxpreps WV Rankings where he saw that.

First item of business, Uncle Percy wants to know if the Boys from Naugatuck, WV made it to Twin Springs and Played Tuesday Night. Never saw a score. Oh, Uncle Percy said to tell you Mamby Pamby Millennials that Naugatuck is a place you had better avoid even if you looking for a place to go. Only Good Ol’ Boys, Rednecks, Harley Riders, and Common Sense Folks allowed. Sorry we missed the last two weeks, had some good games for losers. Uncle Percy had even written a Greek Tragedy for the Eastside Spartans-Twin Springs Titans game. We’ll let you guess who was suppose to have suffered the Tragedy. We were all tied down by Grandpa Clovis wanting to, how do we say this without offending the Politically Correct Wimps, yes, killing a couple of extra hogs. Seems like the price of bacon has gone to around $10.00 a pack since Woke Joe became President. We may have missed pickin’ the Losers, but not the eatin’. Grandma Chloe had us so stuffed with fresh fried sausage, fried apples, hot, buttered biscuits and fried apple pies that even Cousins Claude and Delbert were saying, “No Mas, No Mas”. You old posters will know what we’re talking about. Now for the Losers. Bridgeport @ Princeton The P Cats are off to one of their best seasons in years and are ranked #8 in poll that Cousin Claude saw. They whipped the Flattails to the Mercer Cup and have been on a roll since. We thought they would have trouble in Hedgesville, but pulled out a close one. We don’t know much about Bridgeport except Cousin Claude said they were ranked #7 in that poll. These Indians will probably have about a 3 1/2 hour bus ride which could play into a big plus for the P Cats. We hear Princeton has a very good QB this year. He and the rest of the Cats will probably have to have their best game of the season so far to pull off a win over these Indians. Sturgis the Biker posted earlier that Princeton may have the best team in the area. A win here could prove him right. In a close one……. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Princeton Chilhowie @VA High The I-81 Tribe will be on a Big Cat Hunt this week down in Bristol looking for big playoff points. So far this season the Warriors have not been really tested and have PH and Holston for their finally 2 games. So they had not be looking ahead because they will be facing a bunch off p-offed cats this week. The Bearcats not only got caged last Friday in Bluefield, but the GMen bobbed their tails in an ugly lost. A win here could help the BearKats maybe get Ridgeview at home instead of thar in the playoffs. Expect this game to be close but look for these Racing Cats to pull a long NASCAR Slingshot move late in the game. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser : Chilhowie Graham @ Pulaski Earlier in the year Uncle Percy was thinking about making Pulaski Co. a winner over the West Roanoke Roosters. However Cousin Claude heard about the Cougars getting bit by the injury bug. So we didn’t pick that game. Looks like the GMen will get to cage more cats this week. This game may be closer than you think. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: Pulaski Abington @ Ridgeview The Wolfpack got back to its winning ways this past week by putting a smack down on West Abington Chariot Riders. This week the Blue Buzzards of Abington are flying to Dickinson Co. These clueless Buzzards don’t realize that by flying North they are not going to find any easy pickin’s. Instead they are only going to find a pack of hungry wolves. Folks, by the time this is over, they’ll be picking up Buzzards feathers on every ridge in Dickinson Co. These Buzzards will probably have to lay over at Buzzard’s Roost in Castlewood as they fly back South after this game. They’ll be howling from the ridge tops this weekend in Dickinson. Uncle Percy and Cousin Claude are hollering road trip. Said if Martha’s is still open we can eat chicken wings and howl with all the wolf fans. Lil’ Leonard’s Loser: The Blue Buzzards of Abington Hey Stu-Bean, Cousin Hoyt said to give you a shout. He was telling us about some good Pear Spice Bread. Cousin Hoyt can find some good food. He used to take us to Big Daddy’s. I

Hey Goose, Uncle Percy says she must be some kin to someone he once saw at a game. Ever time his team was on defense he would shout “ BLOCK DEFENSE, BLOCK”

Uncle Percy wants me to post his Disclaimer before any story telling or picking any losers. GMan, we would like to not have to use a Mulligan here. Keep in mind it is Uncle Percy. Disclaimer: I am using the VHSL Master Schedule, we all should know how they can mess things up, and some the weekly newspapers to pick “losers”. (Who would have ever believed you could get better high school football coverage from, of all newspapers, The Voice than from The Bluefield Daily Telegraph.). However, We understand, due to The Wuhan Virus some games may suddenly change and we may not know it in time before we pick a bunch of losers. We had two such games last week. The Long Hunters of Lebanon and Richlands Little Blue Fizzle Machine. Lebanon was pick as a loser, played another and lost. The Little Blue Fizzle Machine didn’t play and ended September as an O-fer. SO, if any of you Nit-Pickin’, Political Correct, Mamby Pamby Millennials are going to condemn, then we need a certain Bluefield Gentleman (He’s one of the Old Dogs on this site) to repost his elegant description and philosophy of what Political Correctness is. Get It. Folks, Uncle Percy takes pickin’ Losers seriously. So let’s pick a bunch of losers. Ridgeview @ Richlands Richlands didn’t get to play The Flattails last week because of the Wuhan Virus and ended the month of September as a Big O-fer (no points, no wins). The Little Blue Fizzle Machine gets to host the Ridge Wolves from Dickinson County this Friday. (Lot of Ridges in Dickinson County, seems like a lot of people live on the Ridges in Dickinson County). Ridgeview is also an O-fer, the lost column. The Little Blue Fizzle Machine is going to have their hands full with this howling Wolfpack Friday Night. Now Ridgeview lost some Big Wolves off last years team but they shouldn’t have any problem from having a howl in’ good time at Ernie Hicks Stadium. On a positive note, the Little Fizzlers may finally get on the scoreboard when the Big Wolves turn the Wolf Pups loose to play the 4th Q. Loser: Richlands Wise-Central @Abington Yes Uncle Percy spells it with a ton instead of Don. The reason, Uncle Percy says it is because you can find tons of it there and none of it is any good. I’ll not say anything more and just leave it there. Uncle Percy says this is probably what you would call a toss-up game. Both teams have only wins against weak teams and lost to good teams. Both lost to Christianburg by 8 pts and 5 pts. Wise Central beat Eastside which is a better team than the 3 Blue Buzzards victims. Wise Central lost to Ridgeview which is a very, very good team. So, look for the Warriors to take home a bunch of Buzzard feathers this Friday. There you have it have folks, The Pronosticating Logic Uncle Percy now uses for toss-up games. (I liked it better when we used Grandpa Clovis’ fighting’ rooster Ol’ Phantom to pick toss up games). Uncle Percy says how can you pick a Loser to be a winner when they’ll always be a loser. ??????? Loser: Abington Grundy @Tazewell As expected the Bull Pups lost to Riverheads this past Saturday, Then again, everybody will probably lose to Riverheads this year. However, we hear that the Bull Pups were able to move the ball at times against a very good defense. With that in mind and looking at the remaining games on the Bull Pup schedule, the Bull Pups might be able to pull out of a slow start and have a winning season. That turn around could very easily start this Friday Night when The Slate Crik Crawdads roll into or should we say back into town. (Ever notice how crawdads are always traveling bas ackwards.) The Crawdads may have blew their chances this past Friday of the BDD Title when they lost to Honaker. Word is that Slate Crik may not even be the best team in Buchanan County this year. The best may be the team on the Pilgram’s Knob. By the Dismal River. Anyway, one of Uncle Percy’s Co-Horts (more like partner in crime) went to the Blacksburg-Grundy game. He told Uncle Percy that a nest full of eggs would at have been safe between the 2 opposing lines. (Translation for Mamby Pamby Millennials - no pads popping, no hitting). With that info, looking at who Tazewell has played, there will be plenty of Smoked Crawdads for Saturday lunch in Tazewell. Because the Bull Pups can bite. Loser: Slate Crik VA High @ Spotswood Interesting…. So the Boys from Bristol are going Cat Racing up in Horse Country this weeekend. Interesting…. We don’t know much about the Spotswood Blazers. Uncle Percy says it has been at least 30 years, give or take a year or two, since he has been to Penn Laird. We know they are 1-3, they scored 91 points, given up137 point, that sounds good for the Bearcats. We know the Bearcats can score and score quick. We don’t know how quick the Blazers are. So this could turn into a heck of a game or a track meet. We are going with the Bearcats by a nose or should we say a Cat’s Whisker. Loser: Spotswood Couple of notes: Uncle Percy and I want to tank Union Fan for his Power Rating Posts. It takes some time and work. Thank You, it’s a big help for us. V-Cats, Uncle Percy says that if you are going to Spotswood, that the last time he was there, the concession stand had the best Smoked Bar-B-Que sandwiches. Don’t know if they still serve them but they were good 30 years ago. Cousin Claude wants to thank Ryan4VT for helping him win a free meal off Uncle Percy. See, Uncle Percy had to cover any bets last week.

We have a winner!!!!!!!! We started to put a disclaimer on the games we pick because of The Wuhan Virus. Instead, We decided to have a little family contest and pick who we would think would make the first comment about any cancelled games. Uncle Percy picked a Blue Buzzard Abington fan, Grandpa Clovis picked a Slate Crik Crawdad fan, Grandpa Cletus picked a Gate City Blue Devil fan. However, Cousin Claude is the winner, he picked A Richlands fan. Looks like a road trip. Cousin Claude gets to pick where we’re eating. Could be The Dip-Dog in Marion, the Dairy Cheer in Pikeville, Ky, The Hob-Nob in Gate City (big, big, big custard) or King Tut Drive In in Beckley, WV.