It's Been a Year Since This Happened...

Wow, I didn't realize it when I went into the stadium, but it have been almost a full year since Abilene High played a home game at Shotwell Stadium on a Friday night. The Eagles only two home games earlier this year were on a Saturday and a Thursday. It was also a milestone in that AHS was playing its first game in its new (old) district. Two years ago AHS was moved into a district in DFW, breaking up one of the most storied high school football districts in the state. Even the worst teams in this district were sure to pose a bigger challenge to the Eagles than any of the district opponents they had last year. Coming off a loss in their last game and and off week last week they team came out looking like they were ready to get back on the winning side. AHS went up 28-0 in the first half and hiccuped a little in the third quarter, but ended up turning things on at the end of the quarter and beginning of the fourth to win pretty easily 49-21. It's good to see the Little SWC back together and see some actual fans on the visitors side of the stadium again. Next week is Midland Lee in Midland on ESPN2 Thursday night.

Dirty hit and the gloves are off...

On Thursday Abilene High played in Ft. Worth in one of the most one-sided games I've ever seen. The final score was 81-3!! Normally, I'm not too big of a fan of running up the score, but there are times I feel it is justified. When a player who is losing intentionally takes someone out with a cheap shot, I say take the gloves off! The only other time I see it a being good idea is in video games :D

That's exactly what happened after the AHS starting center was taken out of the game with a cheap shot, by a Ft. Worth Paschal defender. The Abilene High kid was taken out of the game and probably gone for the season, I was told by one of the trainers that he had a severely broken ankle. The Abilene High coach was clrearly pissed off after the play, and with good reason, the referees did a horrible job of not seeing the kid get hit, then nothing was done, until the Paschal coach pulled the kid out of the game. I'm pretty sure the kid was thrown out by the coaches since I noticed his pads still on the sideline after the game and the kid was no where to be found. However, the damage was done and it was payback time. After seeing how pissed off the coach was, I thought these guys may score 100 tonight... well I was 19 points off! By halftime it was 60-0 and the game was obviously over. The 2nd and 3rd team players were in for the second half and still managed to score three more times. Normally, when AHS is up by 40 or so they call the dogs off, but I think they were justified by the dirty hit to show that it was a bad idea. I've read a number of message boards disagreeing, but I doubt most of them were there. Personally, I'd hate to have been the kid who made the dirty hit and see how pissed off my team was at me for getting beat by 80 rather than 30 or 40!