Major Football

Well, well, well, Saturday has come and gone and I am almost completely satisfied in regards to football. Lets start with on of the most dominating teams in High School football. The Harrisonville Wildcats have done what no one has done for several years now and with one more trip they will be tied for most consecutive trips. They come out and immediately start right where they left off, Sean Ransburg, running wild through the MCIDS Rams defense. He threw where he wanted and when he wanted. Oh yeah he missed a few, a couple to long and what not, but he hit when it mattered. The running backs had their way also with the Rams. It was never really a game at all in my opinion. Harrisonville coach, Fred Bouchard said earlier that that loss to them in 2004, still sticks with him, it is something that sticks in his craw. Well coach, this is twice now you have dominated them and in a big way. Harrisonville won by 35 points, 49 – 14. This is not a close game, not in a state title this is suppose to be the best that the state has, this is not an insult to the Rams of MICDS, but is this the state has or is Harrisonville just this good. I know that I am partial, but I am going with that latter. This team is this good and from the looks of younger players they might be this good for quite some time. We are looking at a Dynasty in the high school ranks. This team has now won 41 straight games and I have heard this is the 8th longest streak in the NATION. I made that bold so you got the point in the nation. They have had one loss in 2005, it was the first game of the season and it was to a 5A school, and they made it close. Some say the Cats give that game away. You know what though if a 3A school looses to a 5A school I will give them that loss and not hold it against them. Would have been nice to say they have won 56 straight games, as they went undefeated the prior year. I only want to say to Coach Bouchard, congratulations to you and your team on another quality year and look forward to bragging on you in the next years to come. 3-peat sounds good don’t it. Well I will be here for the 4- peat also.

Now to the second part of my great weekend. As you all have read in the past few days that I am a huge MU fan, and I have been dreaming of this win for days now and it has all come true for me. Now if the BCS don’t screw them again in the rankings. MU went on to that field and dominated this KU team like they have not seen or imagined all year. I know exactly what the KU fans are going to be saying and I am writing this early on Sunday so when they all start their crying on Monday it is here as proof. You see when KU losses in basketball all you hear is that the officiating was atrocious and cost them the game. You will hear that also here, with a few calls that should or should not have been called we win that game. With out the turnovers we win that game. Their will be no credit given to the Tigers defense that forced those turnovers just excuses that is all you will hear and you that listen all the time know it. If you don’t believe me tune into to the sports radio stations on Monday and you will hear it all. Then you can tune back in here and leave a comment saying you are right. You see the pretty people never, and I mean never take responsibility for what has actually happen. They have to have a reason why something happened. Well, all you freaking Johnson county asses here let me give you your excuses. You got your asses handed to you in the first half and the beginning of the second half. Man”GINA” had no idea what to do, from the look on his face he was hungry and that is all I seen. Feed me, Feed me. Look there will be no excuses at all you got beat and that is that, the officiating was not unfair. Hell, every time the Tigers got close they made stupid mistakes and get moved back. They give you every chance to take this game. How many 3rd and 20 + was there or 3rd and 18. Chase Daniels may not or probably not win the little bronze guy, but by god he needs to be invited anyway. This man went out on this field and made plays when he needed to. I have never seen one guy make that much difference in one game. Every time the Tigers needed a pass they got it and they got from him. Look back at the 3rd and 18 or 19 whatever it was and he runs around for an hour back there and finds the open guy and puts the ball in a box for the receiver. It was a perfect pass and no one was going to get it except for whom he wanted to get it. I think that only reason that it got as close in the second half as it did was that the MU offense started shutting down a little, it almost looked like to me that Pinkel was playing prevent offense, run the clock down and we will be fine. It looked to me like there was not the aggressiveness that I seen in the 1st half. I started to get a little worried there for a bit. But hey the kids kept scoring and kept scoring. Though be it, it was field goals, but they kept scoring. Now give it to the Jayhawks, they scored every time they got the ball in the 4th, and they scored quickly also. The defense was not playing as close and tight as they were earlier in the game. They got the win and that is all that matters to me and, a lot of people.

As I said last week the Jayhawks have not been challenged like this all year. They have not played on ranked team. They play one ranked team and they get their collective asses handed to them. Rock, CHOKE, Jayhwks. That is what is was, a first class choking and strangling. 11-0 I know you have done things right, but you was not challenged all year and you KU fans know it. That is why you should have been ranked right back there with Hawaii all along. Neither of you have been challenged, by anyone, with a winning record or a ranked team all year. Now that you are back around probably 9 or maybe 10 you are where you should be. Look I have said it before and will continue to say it, I am a big 12 fan and I am sure you will probably get a bcs game, well if you are all smart enough to root for MU. You see if MU wins, then you have a BCS birth. Otherwise you don’t get that. They will only take 2 big 12 teams, MU will be 1 if they beat the Sooners, and then you will be the other. So get the feathers out of your mouths and root for whom you know should win this next game. I think this time around OU will not prevail.

Good game to the Tigers and the Jayhawks, Pinkel did not have his coaching stroke I thought he might have and the MANGINAS got their ass whipped just good enough in one half to loose site of the tigers. The clown suit looks good on you Coach Mangina, wear it with pride, you deserve it. Be back later with another report on the Chiefs.

Happy Turkey Day

Well I hope that everyone had a great turkey day and did not eat so much that you are now miserable and will be for the next day. A day of great food and football, and we are getting closer and closer to the border war. I know maybe alot of you are getting tired of hearing about this damn game. However I am really getting excited the closer it comes to a reality. I have studied the stats and looked at them again and again and try to match them up player by player. When KU is on offense and then MU on offense and I am not finding anything that really sets the two apart. KU has a pretty good defense and yet I think, yeah but they have not played against anyone that is ranked. Have they played against anyone with this type of offense or this many weapons. I answer no to all the above. But then again the KU boys are hot right now and then I start to think that for the most part that Mangino has owned Pinkel. Then again these are 2 completely different teams also. The game last year went with MU, but this KU defense is a little better. The MU defense was questionable at best at the beginning of the year, then they have held opponents to little or no scores. Look what they did to Nebraska, they did not give up one offensive score.

Who is the leader here? Who has the advantage in this game? Will KU have the home field advantage? Supposingly they are going to have the majority of the seats filled at Arrowhead. The tickets was not sold in a order that keeps the KU fans on one side and the MU fans on one side. That might make a difference in the noise level for both teams. If KU does have more fans, if they are spread out amongst the MU fans maybe the noise won't be so loud.

Are you starting to see what the hell I am going through here. I have thought and thought about this and I can not get the answer that I am looking for. As you all know by now I am a MU fan, and I am looking for something that might lead me to believe that MU is going to win this game and head off to the League Championship against Texas or OU, whoever the hell that is going to be. I have also played this scenerio through my mind that if LSU looses, and MU wins out, is it possible that KU gets enough votes to maybe stay in the #2 spot. I mean if the game is like a 21-20 game, naturally MU winning, then the polls could look at it like, hey they played them tough and maybe deserving of staying in the hunt. Then I think I don't want to have to play them again if we get by them the first time. I am sick aren't I? I need help. I should maybe start drinking right now.

Finally I come to the conclusion that, who cares who wins, at least a Big 12 team will be in the hunt. I guess that should be good enough for me. Either way it is going to be one hell of a game. The national spotlight is on my 2 local teams.

Speaking of local teams I have a high school post just below I think it might be worthy of a read..

Border War

Well it is that time of year that we have grown accustomed to for quite some time now. It is time for KU and MU to face off. That last football game of the regular season for the two teams. This year however it means alot more, this game means everything. By everything I mean the winner goes on and the looser has everything it has worked for all year ripped from their hands in one game. The winner goes on to play against, probably OU for the league championship. The winner of that game arguably will be playing for the national title.

So now the question is, what the hell is all the fuss. Yeah, this is an important game and it means a bunch to both teams. But, why do we call this a war. Well, here is a small example of this. In 1863 William Quantrill storms into Lawrence and starts his killing of men women and children, and burn the town down on his way out of town. This is history, this really happened, stay with me for a second. Then In 1859 a man by the name of John Brown led his troop of Jayhawkers into Missouri and started to defend his state and quoting all the way, "Keeping America safe from Missouri since 1854." Yeah there is a little history here, and most of it was do to rather Kansas was going to enter the union as a free state or not. The bad blood has been going on for this long. Now, I am not suggesting that this part is still alive, or am I. Well there has been a few t-shirts surfacing around the two campus'. I think that they are all being worn in good fun, if there is such a thing in this relation, but still being worn nonetheless.

Now add in the factor of a huge game. This is arguably the biggest game in all of college football this year, or in a long time for that matter. Some are saying there has never been a game of such magnitude. That might be a stretch but, it is rumored to that affect. Look I do have to say right now this may be one of the best games of the year for sure. I know you have alot of rivalrys, but this one is huge for both schools. We have heard all year that Kansas has not played anyone in the top 25 and that is true, they have played an incredibly weak non conference schedule, They played the first 4 games at home and then we heard well, hell, ok they can win at home lets see what they do on the road. They won on the road. Well, lets see what they do in their conference, they are undefeated. No it is not a very tough conference schedule, but they did no make the schedule, the big 12 does that for them. I think they have proved thus far they are deserving of their current ranking. Did I mention that I was a Missouri fan.

I know I have just spent that last few lines talking up the Jaykawks, but damn it they deserve it. Now, Jayhawks this might be where you turn your head for a minute. Missouri has played a tougher non conference schedule, and won. They did go on the road and win. They are the only team in the country averaging at least 30 points in every game they have played. Oh yeah by the way only two of those games was in the thirties, the remaining games was in the forties or higher. The defense was shaky in the beginning, then they hold pathetic Nebraska team to NO offensive scores at all. Ku wins in Colorado by 5 and Mizzou puts a clown suit on them. They play a ranked Ou team and is winning that game in the fourth quarter, and one play that Chase Daniels and his receiver are on the wrong page and the game turns and then a late fumble. I am not making excuses for them. I mean look this is a game they should have won, but you as a team, have to be ready to play and step up in big games. This was a huge game and they lost. That being said, they played them really tough. Now, that latest boning that MU gets is, WV leaping over them in the BCS rankings. I don't understand that one at all and for that matter no one really does. For some reason the computers love KU and that is fine. I don't think that MU is getting the respet that they deserve, even though they are averaging 30 points a game and winning big and Chase Daniels is being looked at for the little bronz guy. Still not getting the love they deserve, well not in the same way or degree that their border rivals are and that is wrong.

We can erase all of this with two more wins for either team. That would be two more wins against teams in the top 10, how in the hell do you keep them out of the Title game? I tell you how you don't. No matter who it is you have to put them in the top game of the year. The only thing that would make this a better year is if some way the two teams could somehow be in the final game playing against each other for the title. I know that is not possible. Then again this year I think has proved that anything could happen. Both schools are in the national spotlight and showing week in and week out that they deserve any and all they receive.


Good luck to you both and . . . . .



Damn it I hope MU wins.