Another Wet Friday Night

[jacketpride24]

if you are a player you love playing in the rain fi you are a fan you hate it, fairview has its homecoming this week and we are ready for it, last year we played homecoming in monsoon like conditions and it was great. something i will never forget.

[Rukidnme]

It's hard to keep stats in the rain as well. It's also hard to watch a team fumble eight times in the rain. But I see bring on the rain but the lightning can stay away. It is all fun and games till someone gets that one final bolt!

[falconfan94]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not again!!!

[OnlineLC]

It now looks as if the worst will be over by Friday lunchtime. We may get the best of both worlds, a wet and muddy field for the players and we fans can be dry.

[bigdeal]

As long as the high school quarterbacks are better at taking wet snaps than UT's Casey Clausen, everybody will be alright. Clausen should go back to little league or something and learn how to do it right. And after what I sat through Saturday in Knoxville, no amount of rain will stop me this week to go see Anderson County and Clinton. It's bound to be a better game than UT and Florida.

[ThaDeuce]

I'm a player and I hate the rain !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SCRAPPY]

If it kills an expected good gate and tears up the field - it makes no sense not to postpone. With all the county governments bailing on funding extra corricular activities - these coaches have already budgeted their big gate and many can't afford not to get that green. A lot of time, it's already spent.

[ELA]

Posted by SCRAPPY:

If it kills an expected good gate and tears up the field - it makes no sense not to postpone. With all the county governments bailing on funding extra corricular activities - these coaches have already budgeted their big gate and many can't afford not to get that green. A lot of time, it's already spent.

 

AMEN! We have had two "rain gates" and it has cut into our funds! I don't mind playing football in the rain, because it rains on both teams... but if it is a home game, it costs the home team lots of money! The crowds are cut in half during most rain games and it can really hurt small schools! It makes more sense to put off the game until Saturday or Monday, if you can do so, if you know that it is going to pour down rain like it did last Friday night.

[tigercountryboy]

Posted by Riverdale:

Not for us this time. We play Open Date this week

 

open date whats that?

[Guest 481]

Nothing like a nice wet field with long, uncut grass to take the speed out of those 4.5 40 sprinting backs' legs.

[just1np]

ELA brings up a good point that I hadn't thought of. These small schools are getting killed (financially) if they lose just a handful of fans at a game.

[Guest BLUEFAN]

I agree with the guys about the wet rorn up fields, The coaches and volunteers work very hard on these fields and it is a shame to see them torn up with a monsoon. The gate money is very important, Couny money is so tight that the programs need every penny it can get in gate money. I know it is fun to play in the mud for the guys, but there are a lot of factors to consider when a game is postponed. Let's back our officials and coaches when they make these decisions and do the best we can and support our teams.

 

Go Big Blue