A really cool article from a Maine news web site covering Mid-County Madness

[prepballfan]

http://www.centralmaine.com/2017/10/19/among-football-rivalries-cony-gardiner-special-but-hardly-alone/
Really awesome comparing our rilvary to other around the United States. This is a very cool read. Please check it out

 

[PNG Proud]

Cool. Thanks for posting

 

[IndianFan]

Notice that they kept it politically correct?


No use of the words ‘Indians’ or ‘Cherokee’ where it would have naturally been mentioned.

 

[prepballfan]

I did not catch that.....

 

[90NDN]

Good find..thanks for sharing Out of curiosity, how did you find that?

 

[IndianFan]

I did not catch that.....

And in football-mad Texas, when Nederland High School and Port Neches-Groves meet in the “Mid-County Madness” game, it’s all that matters in the two cities separated by railroad tracks.
[/color]“You’re talking about two ghost towns now,” Nederland coach and athletic director Monte Barrow said. “They line up as early as 72 hours outside before (tickets) go on sale. … A lot of them are doing this knowing they may be out when they get up there.”
[/color]Former NFL coach Bum Phillips coached both sides in the rivalry, which TexasFootball.com called the best in the state. It’s achieved that status despite being largely devoid of scheduled ceremony; rather, the students govern themselves leading up to the game. And by the time the crowds of 12,000 to 13,500 show up, they’re ready.
[/color]“For that one week, the battle lines are drawn,” Barrow said. “You go to a football game and a school, their band may play a certain part of their fight song whenever they score. But at this game, it cranks up every time you get a 5-yard gain, or another team calls time out. Everything is heightened 10-fold.”
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[/color]"...despite being largely devoid of scheduled ceremony; rather, the students govern themselves leading up to the game"...
[/color] :huh:
[/color]There's 'ceremony' during the entire week leading up to the game. And if a Friday pep rally before a Nederland game isn't a scheduled ceremony, what is! And sorry, teenagers don't govern anything much less themselves.

 

[prepballfan]

Good find..thanks for sharing Out of curiosity, how did you find that?

I google search Port Neches-Groves Indians usually one or two times every couple of weeks and sift through the regular searches and then the news searches. I have found many interesting articles by doing this.

 

[prepballfan]

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-its-like-experience-the-best-high-school-football-rivalry-the-state-texas
Here is one from 2016 about MCM