Missouri State High School Football Championships
 

I didn't see this anywhere on the board. If it is a re-post please delete it or join it to another or something.
Are any Planeteers old high schools playing this week or any sons playing in any of these games?

My high school just won the 8-man state Championship a few hours ago (game started at 9am--MSHSAA does not like 8-man too much). They all play at the Edward Jones Dome in STL now, which is pretty sweet, even though 17 of the 20 8-man teams are north of 70 and west of 65.

My stepdad got to do the color commentary on KMA radio out of Shenandoah, Ia from the press box at the dome. He said it was pretty hard for an old man (70) to read the numbers from 6 stories up. He liked it though.

Pretty proud of my old school though. The score was 48-16, the backups for MC gave up a TD to the other teams starters, otherwise it was a 48-8 romp. Its pretty sweet too because most of the kids playing are all really good kids and play as a team. I live too far too see them play often, if ever, so I have to keep in touch with my old friends to keep me up to date.

If any of you have not seen an 8-man game, you should give it a try if you live near NW missouri area. Pretty entertaining, and the small crowds can get pretty rowdy depending upon what game you go to. If you go to a Mound City vs. Oregon game you will see families split as if it were the civil war all over again... maybe not quite that bad anymore since Oregon isnt all that good now, but when I was in HS it was pretty nuts since everyone has cousins on the other sideline (I had at least 2 that I knew of). The contests are usually high scoring affairs or at least one team. If the teams aren't matched talent wise then it turns into a massive blowout, hence the 45 point rule. This rule is enacted the moment one team is deafeating the other by 45 points. The clock runs continuously unless there is a timeout or a turnover. If this is rule is enacted before halftime, the losing team has the opportunity to end the game at half or continue playing where they are given the chance to forfeit at any point there following. I have to say at least half my games in HS were ended by halftime. We had a 5 week span my junior year where we gave up 0 points.

The 2 best examples I can give as to the games being high scoring is the opening game my senior year we went to a school that was supposed to be the best team and we beat them 81-14 midway through the 3rd quarter. It was 63-0 at half and our backups played the rest of the game. The other example would be our state championship my freshman year where we won 62-60 and set a new record for most records broken in a single game... I think it was 9, but might have been 7.

If you want to read some better articles or writers just use google: here are a few though.

From STL about MC.
From St Jo about 8-man going to STL.
About MC beating Stanberry--- apparently we are +36 in turnovers
This article is pretty good and brings back memories from HS for me. Also, I live (parents) 25 yards from the football field and my stepdad helped build the entire sports 'complex'... I dont remember our practices ever feeling like a pool party when we had Coach Petersen, he refered to our first 2 weeks as hell weeks because all we did was run sprints and drills in August heat.

Well, you've heard me ramble on. I want to hear some others ramble too. If you want to know more about 8-man, please ask! I was 6'2" 165-190 and played WR/DE, always both sides of the ball, ironman football!

There is one on TV righ now. Thayer and somebody. I watched a little of it until I reaized I didn't give a shit.

when did you last
give a shit about anything

Go Spoofhounds!

I think its cool that they even give the small schools at shot at being on tv. They are rotating the games so every other year all the classes can be on tv.

Also my annual 4321 to Salem, MO. Bastards cost me a chance at a state title.

Seems like I'm the only one still posting on it :p




Congrats on your State Championship!

We are in the Semi-finals tommorow, winner goes to the Ok State Championship game next week.

I'm interested in seeing Derrion Thomas play for south. Someone was telling me the other day that he was born 9 months after his dad set the single game sack record. I have no proof of this because I don't know his actual birthday, but the age matches up. Maybe he was conceived in celebration of the best defensive performance in Chiefs history. If that's the case, I don't care that he's only played one year, the tigers need to go after him.

"Pond of Red". Most excellent, and accurate.

Playing in the dome is a great experience. Congratulations.

:) All credit goes to DaFace.

mchs definately put the hammer to st. joe christian today. and @ 48-16 it was the closest game of the year for the panthers. they are an extremely well coached and unselfish bunch of kids. not shure how far we'll drop in talent next year but we should be pretty good again. when i was in school we played 11 man, but they switched to 8 man when i lived in arizona. it took awhile to get used to but i rather enjoy it now. was hoping to beable to post a bunch of pics, but some idiot(me) forgot to get fresh batteries for the camera. did get a couple though. have to see how they look when i get back home.

webb city plays helias tomorrow for the state championship as well

My brother is friends with the two sibling offensive linemen for Orrick. They played a great game.

Ahhh...webb city and Helias. both very good teams when I was in HS. Helias, we always beat, but they hit hard and played with heart. Never played Webb City, but heard they have always been good.

Camdenton? lol from what I hear they didn't do too well this year.

I live in Chillicothe now. Great football team and was only beat by 1 point the game before state. Kinda feel sorry for em, but that's the breaks