Pride2909

Smelcer is a great guy and a great coach... I played for hime my senior year on the baseball team. I'm not sure why he left, but wherever he is i'm sure he is a positive contribution.

Oneida and Coalfield aren't the only 2 teams in the region...

I'll tell you all a call, or should I say lack of a call that really gets me fired up every time I think about it. Last friday night Greenback was playing Midway. Midway's QB was breaking down the field on his way to the endzone. Meanwhile, a Greenback defensive player was in hot pursuit while the QB was still in the back field. Greenback's player got the immortal crap knocked out of him from behind "CLIPPING"! He layed there in pain well after the play was over. Howerever, the flag was never thrown! Greenback's stands were in an uproar. My uncle and I just happened to be standing on the sidelines next to the endzone where the extrapoint was about to be attempted. My uncle began to yell at the ref screaming "TELL ME YOU DIDN'T SEE THAT CLIP"! The ref snickered a bit and jokingly repied "I am not going to say I didn't see it". My uncle became furious because the ref had just admitted that he saw the clip and didn't call it. Then my uncle asked him why he didn't throw the flag. He said that "I don't have a rocket arm". The clip happened all the way across the field. Just because it is on the other side of the field doesn't mean that you can't throw the flag! That was the most unproffesional ref I have ever seen. He should be banned from reffing. I know that the refs make mistakes, and that some plays are not going to get called, but this guy admitted it to us. He could have saved some integrity by at least saying that he didn't see it. I wouldn't even allow that man to ref a pee-wee game. -Pride-

I'm not sure if you were mistaken or the scheldule is wrong or what, but I was under the impression that Greenback was hosting Coalfield... Greenback plays Coalfield at Greenback, Midway at Midway, and Oneida at Greenback.... Thats what the shcedule posted on Coach T says and anyway... Anyway I think if Greenback doens't commit any turnovers than I think it will be a good game.

Yeah ole' Eddie V. still tells me stories about Greenback vs. Vonore. He told be about them carving a huge V in our field and we set cows to graze in their field. I heard about Vonore having a thing where the students bought an old broken down car and Painted Teddy Jonses's name on it and then beat the crap out of it. He also mentioned the fight that vonore and greenback got in that one year. Sounded pretty ugly. Our rivalry we had with Midway, in my opinion, was because we had an 11 year winning streak on them until my soph. year. Then we were just embarassed and a rivalry spawned from it. Oneida and Coalfield were always big games. As far as I can remember Greenback Oneida and Colafield have always consistently been the top 3 teams in region 2 1A. However, other teams made a good run here and there, but those 3 were usually the team to beat. I remember getting beat by midway and sunbright my soph. year. Many of the players from those teams were crying. tears of joy. It actually made me feel good knowing how much it meant to them to beat us.

yeah, i heard that harriman has a pretty big boy an the d-line. I think that if greenback doesnt turn the ball over ANY! and they can keep harriman's speed under control then i think that this game may be very close. I dont like to predict a winner because i am partial, but I hope that greenback steps it up tonight and pulls out a win. I think if they can get a win tonight the tides may just turn for them and we may see greenback placing their bid for a playoff birth. I have a lot of faith in my boys. GO 'KEES! -Pride-

well its game day... lets see which pf these teams is going to bring their A game to the table, and which one is gonna lose the goose egg from the w colomn.

I dont know if you could say "any" coalfield team from the last 50 years... Not trying to say those teams weren't pretty good, but I don't recall ever losing to coalfield between 99-02

by the way... i would have guessed that you were the middle linebacker for that '87 team, but im not sure.

I respect your privacy. You going up to the game tomorrow? Me and big eddie v are gonna head up there to see if big #52 can show flares of his lineage... if you no what im sayin'. He's got some talent and some great size. I heard ed was a push over till his junior year then something just snapped and he became a wild man. I hope the same thing can be said about #52. -Pride-

yeah, i figured that much... what pos. did u play mr. gfd?

many of the greatest teams in history did not win the gold ball... the landers did beat us but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were a "better" team. look at the colts last year. look at usc last year. both of those teams had a better all around team than the teams they got beat by. not trying to stir up anything, just saying.

i appreciate the compliment ro8432. when did you play? i played from 99-02 seasons what years were u with the nation gfd?

i appreciate that pujo. Hearing that from somebody elses side really means a lot. I''ll never forget that game. We always tried to play as cleanly as possible. We stayed focused on plaing the game cause every player on the field was out there to play for the love of the game. We weren't into trash talking or tryong to hurt another player. We just wanted to win.

I'm going to have to say that my team, the 02' greenback cherokees was "one of" the greatest teams of all time in 1A. We had the gunsliger Austin James who threw for nearly 3000 yards as a sophomore. We had a running back who is currently playing D2 ball up in kentuky. Then there was the receiving core; Josh Shelton, Trae Helton, Matt Ervin, and myself... (not trying to brag). We all had hands, speed, and a good head on our shoulders. There wasn't another team in 1A that had the depth in the secondary to do much with us. However, cloudland beat us that year in the 3rd round. They were also a team stacked with talent and had great coaching. I think if we had played them 10 times we would have won 5. I also went and watched them play boyd the next week after they beat us. We could have beat them... Not saying they werent also a good team cause im not trying to step on toes here. We averaged 42 points a game and our 1st string only played the second half in only 2 games. I think we had a great team and i think that people who played against us would say so too. -Pride-