DaBears1976

Ravenwood may have gotten better as well.

Next season may be one of the very best seasons in wrestling that Tennessee has had in quite sometime. Wilson could finally be the one to knock our region off. Of course I'm sure Cleveland is loaded behind this senior class and will have something to say about that as well. It's finally good to see another region stepping up.

Good luck to Jackson. Hope he gets healthy and rebounds.

They definitely produced two or three of the best teams that ever played in this state. Between them and the Riverdale teams. Darn good teams back then.

Gonna be biased a lot on this one. Really think Bradley has the nicest Stadium. Especially in East Tennessee. One of the biggest as well. Probably needs to be remodeled a little. The hill more so. DB is a close second. Just wished the baseball field wasn't built into the football field.

Rivalry isn't bout just state champions playing each other every year. Pretty sure Bradley and Mcminn has played 103-4 times and Maryville and Alcoa 91 I think? The best thing they could have done was to ban bradley and Cleveland from playing. The rival just didn't start up on Friday before the game. It started the Sunday before that was called "Bradley Cleveland week". It was so bad throughout town the whole week. There were fights after fights. Painting our bear blue, painting their field black and gold, burning fields and such. More cops out in town, swat and cops at the game than Maryville and Alcoa sees each season at theirs. Of course it has called down to be just a good crosstown rival, (which is a good thing) but back then, it was the most hatred, brutal and best rivalry in the state of Tennessee. Just wished it never got out of hand like it did. 2nd was Marion and South Pitt. Ot was also brutal. PS: shouldn't even have been called a rivalry anyway due to the fact that Cleveland smacked us around every year. Never seen teams like that.

Second oldest and longest "rivalry" game in Tennessee. Can't remember if it's behind the Baylor/mccallie game or Marion County.

Back when, no rivalry in this state compared to Bradley vs Cleveland. It's still one of the biggest and best in Tennessee in both football and definitely the biggest in wrestling.

Neither team comes close to beating Maryville.

You should see him in the basketball threads.

Wouldn't mind having Floyd running tonight for us lol.

Burke is still on the team. Our QB. He just got injured in the first game this season. Been out since.

Haha true!

I knew this, but wasn't gonna say anything. It's the young mans choice. Either way, hope he succeeds, but would have loved to have seen him play his senior year.

He would have changed our 2-3 loss season with a 1 loss season most likely. It hurt losing him.