Txprepsfootball.com All Texas Team Released

The 2009 Txprepsfootball.com All Texas Team featuring some of the finest high school football players in the state has been released and it features players from all classifications, including nine from class 5A, ten from class 4A, six from classes 3A and 1A, and seven from class 2A.

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Amazing Run

Check out this run by James Wilder Jr., of Tampa (Fla.) Plant High. Wilder, who is the son of former NFL running back James Wilder ran through three defenders and went 42 yards for a touchdown in the Florida 5A state final against Manatee.

The 6-2, 223 lb. Wilder, just a junior, will be one of the top recruits in 2011.

Class 4A Championships to be Streamed on Fox Sports

The two Class 4A State Championship games will be streamed live on Fox Sports today. Brenham and Aledo square off at 1 PM and Longview and Lake Travis kickoff at 6 PM. You can watch the games here.

Kickoff time for the Bushland vs. Daingerfield Class 2A Division II state championship game Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls has been changed from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Should be a great matchup as both teams have dominated the competition throughout the season. Daingerfields' only loss was to 3A state champ Gilmer.

Gilmer Leading Abilene Wylie 24-7 at Half

Gilmer is leading Abilene Wylie 24-7 at halftime in the Class 3A DI championship game. You can watch the 2nd half here on Fox streaming video.

Katy Going for Three Peat

The Katy Tigers held off New Braunfels today 14-6 in a low scoring affair. The weather was a factor as it was a foggy, windy day. Despite the weather, almost 21,000 fans showed up at Rice Stadium.

Katy (14-1) will face Abilene (14-0) at 7 p.m. next Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio for the Class 5A Division II state title in a game that shapes up to be a classic.

Can Katy lay claim to team of the decade? ........ or is it the Southlake Carroll Dragons? .... who dominated the early half of the decade. Interestingly enough, the two teams met in the 5A Division II title games in 2003 and 2005 with Katy winning 16-15 in 2003 and Carroll paying them back in 2005 by a 34-20 margin.

UIL All Time Offensive and Defensive Teams

The UIL has published their All-Time Offensive and Defensive Teams as selected by the fans and I have to say they did a pretty good job. There may be a slight quibble here or there, such as how do you leave the national record holder in career rushing yardage, Ken Hall, off the first team, but it's hard to argue that Earl Campbell and Eric Dickerson are undeserving of first team accolades.

I wonder how the college & professional careers of the players weighed on the voters minds. I don't remember seeing the criteria for the voting, but LaDainian Tomlinson & Earl Campbell both started their high school careers as linebackers and therefore didn't rack up huge career numbers in high school and Raymond Berry didn't blossom as a receiver until he reached the NFL.

All Star Games Just Around the Corner

The Texas high school football season is winding down, but you can still see some of your favorite players in action at the Under Armour All-American Bowl played in Florida on January 2nd and the U.S. Army All-American Bowl played in San Antonio the following Saturday on January 9th at noon.

Both games feature plenty of Texans and will give spectators a sneak peak at some of the best players in Texas and how they fare against the best players from around the nation.

Under Armour All-American Bowl Roster
U. S. Army All-American Bowl West Roster

What a night in Class 3A Division I

Two great games in Class 3A Division I last night!

Gilmer edged Cuero in a game between undefeated teams, 42-36. The teams appeared evenly matched judging by the scoreboard and the total yardage (410 for Cuero, 407 for Gilmer).

On the other side of the bracket, Abilene Wylie rallied to victory by scoring with eight seconds left in the game to defeat Lucas Lovejoy, a school in only their third year of existence, 31-27.

Gilmer and Abilene Wylie will meet at SMU's Ford Stadium Saturday at a time to be determined for the state championship.

Bushland / Crane Moved to Tomorrow

Crane received close to two inches of snow in the area earlier today and because of travel concerns, the Class 2A D2 Quarterfinal game between Bushland and Crane is moved to 2 pm tomorrow. The game is still at the same location (Frenship).

What's Up in Class 5A DI Region II?

Cy Woods just pulled off a huge 28-21 upset of Dallas Skyline and Tyler Lee is leading RR Stony Point 16-7 at halftime. If Tyler Lee holds on it would set up an unlikely matchup for the region championship. Can you say bracket buster? You can catch the second half of Stony Point and Tyler Lee here.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving always makes me think of the two "F's"...... food and football. There's a great slate of games tomorrow and Saturday. We're headed to the Euless Trinity-Arlington Martin game tomorrow at noon, then on to catch Cedar Hill and Abilene. On Saturday, we'll take in a Class 2A battle of unbeaten teams, Pilot Point and Godley.

A reminder that a condensed version of the exciting Allen / Southlake Carroll game played last weekend at Cowboys Stadium will be shown at 9 PM tonight on Fox Sports Southwest.

Happy Thanksgiving to All!

More on Carroll / Allen

The Southlake Carroll / Allen game on Saturday night (it ended Sunday morning) took a series of events to send the game to overtime and fans from both teams probably feel like their team should have won in regulation.

If you're a Carroll Dragon fan you probably looked on in amazement as Carroll got off a punt from their own endzone that only traveled 16 yards and the officials put one second back on the clock to allow Allen to throw a touchdown pass on the last play in regulation.

If you're an Allen fan you're probably still lamenting the fact that the Eagles drove inside the Carroll 30 yard line on all nine possessions in regulation and piled up 539 total yards of offense, yet only scored 14 points before the last play in regulation.

On a side note, the crowd estimated at 40,000 will move this game in to sixth place on the top ten all-time playoff attendance list.

Venue Change for Abilene and Cedar Hill

The Class 5A playoff game between undefeated teams Abilene and Cedar Hill originally slated to be played at Aledo has been moved to the Birdville Fine Arts Complex in North Richland Hills.

This will help accomodate a larger crowd as Bearcat Stadium in Aledo holds just over 8,000 while the BFAC holds 12,000. Kickoff time is still 2 p.m. Friday afternoon.

Skyline / DeSoto Highlights

Highlights from the big Dallas Skyline / DeSoto game as well as Cedar Hill's victory.

Dragons Prevail

The Southlake Carroll / Allen matchup lived up to the hype as Allen threw a touchdown pass on the last play in regulation to send the game to overtime.

Both teams scored in the first overtime and again in the second overtime, however Allen went for the win instead of attempting to send the game to a third overtime. The Eagles attempt failed and the Dragons escaped Cowboys Stadium with a 35-34 double overtime playoff victory that will rank with some of the best playoff games ever played.

Brazoswood Beats the Odds

Brazoswood accomplished what only one other team had been able to do by upsetting Galena Park North Shore at GPISD Stadium last night.

It's Over

Stephenville kicks a field goal on their first possession in overtime and Aledo comes back to score a touchdown and win 26-23.

Aledo and Stephenville in Another Classic

It seems any Aledo and Stephenville game becomes an instant classic. They are in another one at Cowboys Stadium as they are going to overtime in a Class 4A second round playoff game. You can catch it here.

Friday Night Playoff Games to Watch

Rain is currently covering the eastern 2/3 of the state and may affect some playoff games this evening.

It's round two of the playoffs and there are big games all over the map tonight.

In Class 5A, perennial playoff teams Austin Westlake and Converse Judson tangle, along with undefeated teams San Antonio Southwest and Harlingen (could a Valley team win a region?)

In Class 4A, traditional rivals Aledo and Stephenville go head to head, while Lake Dallas and Everman meet at Pennington Field in Bedford. Also, Brenham meets undefeated Port Neches-Groves, while 10-1 teams Medina Valley and CC Calallen meet in Victoria.

In Class 3A, they don't get much bigger than the matchup of undefeated teams Sealy and Cuero. The game between 10-1 Graham and 11-0 Monahans also bears watching.

In Class 2A, the big game is in Frisco where two 11-0 teams square off as Gunter meets Pilot Point.

In Class 1A, undefeated Godthwaite against once beaten Shiner looks good.

Class 4A Venue Changes

According to the Denton Chronicle two second round playoff games have changed venues. Denton Ryan vs. Arlington Heights, which was originally listed at Cowboys Stadium, is moving to Keller ISD Friday at 7 p.m. and Denton Guyer vs. Mansfield Legacy, which was orginally posted at Birdville ISD on Thursday, will be at Dragon Stadium in Southlake Friday at 7:30 p.m.

14-5A Narrowly Avoids Sweep

Class 5A district 14-5A narrowly avoided being swept in the first round of the playoffs when The Woodlands edged Klein Forest 32-31 in overtime as Klein Forest missed the PAT after scoring to pull within one point.

Klein Collins, Spring Westfield and Klein of district 13-5A all moved on, with the most notable victory being Klein's 27-21 upset of Lufkin.

Trojans Hammer Flower Mound

Euless Trinity hammered Flower Mound in an early Class 5A Division I Region I game at Cowboys Stadium, racking up 88 points and 805 yards of offense in a 88-27 victory. It was the most points by an 11-man team in the Texas high school playoffs since 1941 when Lancaster beat Duncanville 89-0 in the Class B playoffs.

Can You Say HUGH UPSETS?

There were three HUGH upsets on Friday in classes 3A-1A.

In Class 3A, Giddings, who was ranked in the Class 3A top ten all season, lost 40-21 to Brookshire Royal, who was 5-5 entering the playoffs.

Class 2A Muleshoe had it's 25 game winning streak broken by Amarillo River Road, 25-21. Muleshoe went 15-0 on it's way to a state title last season and was 10-0 coming in to the playoffs.

In Class 1A, Quinlan Boles was undefeated (9-0) and ranked in everyone's top five. After not being challenged all season Boles went down hard to Collinsville, who was 5-5 during the regular season, by a score of 56-21.

More Records ......

In addition to the record pursuits we mentioned below, there were two state records set in the final week of the season that seemed to go largely unnoticed, and oddly enough they were set by two players on the same team in a LOSING effort.

Carrollton Newman Smith defeated Richardson Pearce in a high scoring 70-56 slugfest on the final Friday of the season and in the process the Richardson Pearce pass/catch duo of QB Mac Morse and WR Blake Jumonville both set state records.

Morse threw for 634 yards to break the single game passing yardage record of Laredos' Alvaro Garcia set in 2006 against San Antonio Reagan and Jumonville caught 19 passes totaling 386 yards to break the single game receiving yardage record establised by Randy Boone of Chillicothe set in 1984.

Record Assault

Keep an eye out for running backs Nate Jeffery of Class 2A Caddo Mills and Traylon Shead of Class 1A Cayuga. Both teams open their playoff drives tonight and how far they go will determine each running back's chances of breaking the all-time state record for career touchdowns.

Both Jeffery and Shead are tied with for second place with Cuero's Robert Strait at 128 career touchdowns and both are well within reach of the all-time mark of 136 set by Lamar Consolidated's Jacquizz Rodgers from 2004-2007.

Also moving up the all-time touchdown list is Denton Ryan quarterback Scotty Young, who now has 113 career touchdown passes after throwing for four scores in the Raiders opening round playoff victory over Saginaw last night.

Young now stands in sixth place, just behind Bayton Lee QB Drew Tate (114) and Jim Ned QB Colt McCoy (116).

Big Game in Bullard

Coming in to last nights' Class 1A bi-district game in Bullard, Tenaha was considered an underdog by most despite a 10-0 record.

The game, which had all the makings of a game played deeper in the playoffs, turned out to be worth more than the price of admission when Tenaha mounted a late comeback after being down 17-6 to win 20-17 on a late 95 yard pass for a touchdown.

Can You Say Loaded?

The improbable happened Friday night when Plano beat Jesuit 20-12, routing the fourth largest high school in Texas to Division II for the Class 5A playoffs.

The 9-1 Allen Eagles join 9-0 Abilene, 10-0 Cedar Hill, 9-1 Southlake Carroll and 10-0 El Paso Coronado in Class 5A Division II Region I to make up what is undoubtedly the toughest region in all of the state.

Two Central Texas traditional football powers failed to qualify for the playoffs this year as Class 5A Smithson Valley and Class 3A Liberty Hill were shuffled to the sidelines.

Big turn around for Class 2A Malakoff this season as they beat Kerens 23-16 to qualify as the Division I representative from District 14-2A. Malakoff was 0-10 last season and 1-19 over the past two seasons.

In Class 4A, get ready for Indian fever as the Port Neches-Groves Indians finished 10-0 after an improbable overtime win over Beaumont Central, 25-22. It is the first unblemished regular season for the Indians since 1977 when they made it all the way to the state championship before losing to Plano 13-10 in a game that ranks as the highest attended playoff game in Texas High School football history.

Big Games in Class 4A Thursday Night

There are two great matchups Thursday night involving districts 5-4A & 6-4A.

The District 5-4A rivalry game between Denton Ryan (8-1) and Denton Guyer (9-0) kicks off at 7 p.m. Thursday at C.H. Collins Athletic Complex, a change from schedules issued at the beginning of the season.

The date was changed several weeks ago so it could be broadcast by Fox Sports Southwest, which will show the game to cable audiences throughout the state.

The winner will get the district’s top seed in Class 4A Region I Division I, while the loser will be the runner-up.

In District 6-4A the Birdville Hawks (9-0) take on the Aledo Bearcats (8-1) to decide the district champion. Both teams look to be going Division II, and this game will decide the seeding.

The game will be broadcast locally in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex on channel 21 and boasts two of the most prolific offensive players in the state in Birdville quarterback Josh Dorman, who has thrown for 3,255 yards and 43 touchdowns while completing over 66% of his throws and Aledo running back Johnathan Gray, who has 1,541 yards rushing to go along with 30 touchdowns.

14-5A Title to be Decided Tonight

The Woodlands Highlanders (8-0) will travel to Abe Martin Stadium in Lufkin tonight to meet the Lufkin Panthers (7-1) in a game that will decide the winner of district 14-5A.

The Highlanders will be battling recent history as well as they are 0-5 against Lufkin since the Panthers moved to the district, including last year's 15-13 loss.

Game time forecast calls for temperatures around 50 degrees with an overflow crowd expected. Give us Lufkin to continue their dominance over the Highlanders, 35-24.

Just down the road from Lufkin, the Alto Yellow Jackets and Cayuga Wildcats match up in Alto to determine the winner of district 20-1A. We're taking Cayuga, 30-21.

Look for Cayuga RB Traylon Shead, who is now the 2nd leading rusher of all-time in Texas to have a big night.

Shead Now 3rd on All-Time Rushing List

Cayuga running back Traylon Shead, a senior Texas commit, rushed for 240 yards on eight carries Friday night and now stands third on the state's all-time rushing list with 8,623 career yards.

Shead has 1,027 yards after five games this season for the Wildcats, and now trails only Corpus Christi Calallen's Wes Danaher (8,855 yards) and Sugar Land's Kenneth Hall, the state and national record-holder with 11,232 yards. Shead needs to average 261 yards per game through the Class A Division II state championship to eclipse Hall's record.

Shead also now stands fifth on the all-time career touchdown list with 116. In his path stand Cedris Benson (127), Hall (127), Robert Strait (128) and record holder Jacquizz Rodgers (136).

Shead may have a shot at both records if Cayuga can win out.

State Farm Looking for HS Football Videos

State Farm is looking for the best high school football plays of 2009 in a YouTube video contest called "Friday Night Feats." The top four videos in Texas will win $2,500 and the chance to win the grand prize of $15,000 for the high school. The contest runs through Nov. 22.

Spring Dekaney Sophomore RB on a Roll

Spring Dekaney sophomore running back Trey Williams is proving to be a handful for opposing defenses this year. He has 1,242 yards and 15 TDs on the season, but has really kicked it in to high gear recently. He is averaging over 300 yards per game over the last three contests, including 375 against Spring Westfield and 328 against Klein Forest, who were expected to be the front runners in district 13-5A.

Plano West Just Scored Again!

McKinney Boyd continues to rack up points on offense behind quarterback Jonovan Griffin who passed for 380 yards and rushed for 149 for a total of 529 yards against Plano West last week as Boyd racked up 40 points. One small problem.......Plano West scored 84.

If you're wondering, the combined score record for a Texas high school football game is 143 points set by El Paso Burges 87 vs. El Paso Austin 56 in 2004. The 84-40 (124 points) McKinney Boyd vs. Plano West score did make the top ten (tied for tenth).

Katy Cinco Ranch Stays Undefeated

The Katy Cinco Ranch Cougars had to score 31 points in the 4th quarter and kick a field goal with no time remaining on the clock to stay undefeated (5-0) as The Woodlands College Park gave them all they could handle last night.

Carroll vs. North Shore on TV

FOX Sports Southwest announced Monday afternoon that it will carry the the matchup between Southlake Carroll (4-0), ranked #1 in class 5A by our site, and Galena Park North Shore (only loss 9-7 to Katy) live from Corsicana at 6 p.m. Saturday.

The broadcast in the Houston area will be on FOX Sports Plus (Comcast Cable Channel 76) due to the Houston Astros game on FOX Sports Houston. Satellite customers can watch the game on DirecTV Channel 676 and Dish Network Channel 416.

Friday Night Lights Live

Join us Friday night as we talk football and post scores from around the state.

Are Special Teams Important?

Are special teams important? Not so much if you listen to Pulaski Academy Bruins Coach Kevin Kelley, who reports that he stopped punting in 2005 — after reading an academic study on the statistical consequences of going for the first down versus handing possession to the other team, plus reading Tuesday Morning Quarterback’s relentless examples of when punting backfires, but going for the first down works.

Pulaski hasn't punted since 2007 when it did so as a gesture of sportsmanship in a lopsided game. This article from Sports Illustrated tells about the philosophy of the Bruins head coach.

De-Cleater of the Week

Check out this hit in the Lake Highlands-Garland from week 2, courtesy of inside highschool football.com.


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Weather Update

Rain finally starting to move away from the Houston area as Katy gets set to take on Bellevue, Washington, while there has been a steady rain all day at Pennington Field in Bedford, where Euless Trinity will take on Cedar Hill at 7:30 in a matchup of class 5A #1 and 2 (AP). The good news is there is little lightning with this rain, which should allow the games to be played.

Shead Loses Ground

Cayuga's game against Dawson was cancelled in the second quarter last night with the Wildcats leading 20-0. Running back Traylon Shead, who is in pursuit of Kenneth Hall's national career rushing record had over 100 yards in the first quarter, but it was all wiped out by severe thunderstorms, leading to cancellation of the game. Shead has 459 yards and 5 TDs on the season and stays at 8,055 for his career.

Grand Prairie Forfeits to Arlington High

In an unusual move, Grand Prairie conceded to Arlington in a forfeit 2-0 due to the weather. The game would have been replayed today, but Gopher coach Gary Bartel stated half the kids on his team work and he didn't feel that he wanted to play with a large number of players missing.
Grand Prairie Forfeits to Arlington High

Headlines From Friday Night

Weather again caused numerous delays and cancellations across the state Friday night. In class 4A, four top ten teams were knocked off, while Denton Ryan quarterback Scotty Young tied the state record (which was just tied last week by Birdville QB Josh Dorman) with 8 touchdown passes in a 70-63 win over McKinney.

Young is off to a torrid start with 1,167 yards and 20 TD passes in his first three games.

Friday Night Lights Live

Weather Delays

Weather is a factor again in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. The Garland-Lake Highlands game is delayed. If the game is cancelled it would be two weeks in a row that Garland has lost a game.

Rare 1-2 Matchup Coming in Class 5A

According to the AP, this week's top two teams in class 5A will meet at Pennington Field in Euless Saturday night as Cedar Hill jumped to #1 in the wake of Katy's loss to The Woodlands, while Euless Trinity moved up to #2.
AP Top 10 poll for week of Sept. 7

Week One Musings

The class 5A Katy Tigers, who were ranked #1 by some pollsters last week, lost to The Woodlands 31-27, but they're actually in better position this year than last. They turned the tables on Galena Park North Shore in the season's first game, edging them 9-7, after losing to them 10-6 in 08'. In 2008 The Woodlands embarrassed the Tigers 47-0 before Katy went on to win a second consecutive state title.

A couple games involving top ten teams crossing class lines this week when class 4A Wolfforth Frenship meets class 3A Abilene Wylie and class 2A Arp takes on class 1A Alto. Expect the upper classes to teach the junior classes a lesson in each contest.

Weather has caused numerous cancellations the first two weeks of the season and it looks like the forecast again calls for thunderstorms to rumble across the state this weekend.

Full Day at The Palace Outside Dallas

Fox Sports will be broadcasting four games tomorrow from the new Cowboys Stadium beginning at 10:30 a.m. The most anticipated game will be the first one that features "The Battle of the Hakas'" as Euless Trinity takes on Bingham from Utah.


Euless Trinity vs. South Jordan Bingham (Utah)
Saturday, September 7th, 10:30 a.m. Fox Sports SW
Colleyville Heritage vs. Irving MacArthur
Thursday, Sept. 7th, 1:30 p.m. Fox Sports SW
Mansfield Summit vs. Mansfield Timberview
Thursday, September 7th, 4:30 p.m. Fox Sports SW
Klein Oak vs. Sherman Oaks (Cali.)
Thursday, September 7th, 7:30 p.m. Fox Sports SW

Cayuga RB Moving Up

Cayuga RB Traylon Shead passed Bradley Stephens of McAllen this past weekend with 290 yards rushing and 3 TDs to move in to 8th place on the all-time career Texas schoolboy rushing list.

Friday Night Lights Live

Join us here to dicuss Texas high school football and post scores from around the state at 7 PM Friday night.

Weather Delays Again

As was the case last week, lightning is a factor in some Thursday night games. Duncanville and Garland are delayed by lightning in the second quarter with Duncanville leading 3-0. Storms also are in the panhandle and in the Houston vicinity.

A Couple Week Zero Thoughts

Class 1A Cayuga, who was ranked #1 by most publications, including us, went down to class 2A Frankston over the weekend, but I wouldn't count the Wildcats out of a long playoff run. Frankston returned 16 players from a 6-4 team and they should have a good chance to make the playoffs in class 2A.

We're running a poll right now on the class 5A page and district 8-5A is tied for the lead as being the toughest district in the state as I write this. Yes that would be the same district that went 2-5 over the weekend. The five teams expected to be at the the top of 8-5A all went down to defeat, including Allen, Plano, Plano East, Plano West and Wylie, while the expected lesser teams of the district, Jesuit and McKinney Boyd, garnered the only wins.

Good Night for Football

Katy attempts to break Galena Park North Shores' 78 game regular season win streak tonight at 7pm, while Duncanville and Odessa Permian meet in the Alamodome at 4pm. We're heading to what looks to be a great matchup between Cedar Hill and DeSoto in a game televised on ESPN at 6pm. Go to the news page and click on Week Zero Scoreboard for all the scores from the weekend.

Lobos Win Classic Battle Over Allen

We said before the start of the season that Longview may be as talented as any team in the state regardless of classification and they made a statement in Week Zero with a hard fought 28-25 win over defending class 5A DI champion Allen, in a game they trailed 17-0 at halftime.


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Navasota Romps

Navasota, our #6 team in class 3A routs Henderson in Lufkin tonight, 47-0. Several games across the state affected by weather.

Texas and High School Football

In Texas everything is bigger and better. The men are stronger, the women are prettier and the kids are smarter. We work hard and play hard. We love our families and we love our communities. It's time to kickoff one of the things we love the most; high school football.

Every team is undefeated and chomping at the opportunity to beat up on someone besides themselves. The players, coaches, bands, cheerleaders and fans are geared up for another great season of Texas high school football as Christmas time arrives once again in late August.

Great games all over the state in Week Zero, including several in class 5A.

DeSoto vs. Cedar Hill
North Shore vs. Katy
Allen vs. Longview
Hebron vs. Wylie
San Antonio O'Conner vs. San Antonio Madison

UIL All-Century Team

The UIL has opened up voting for the UIL All-Century Football Team. Here's our All-Time Texas Team assembled last year. Not quite sure why the UIL doesn't have Sammy Baugh listed at both QB and punter.

Open House at Cowboys Stadium

It was open house day at the stadium where four high school football games will be played over Labor Day weekend.

The home of America's Team is impressive to say the least, but the massive video screen leaves me wondering if the game will merely be a distraction. The screen is so overwhelming it seems that fans in the upper reaches of the stadium will more inclined to view the monster screen than the action on the field.

Maybe it's just me, but the stadium is a little pristine for my taste. Give me the open air and snow at Lambeau Field or Mile High Stadium in Denver. No question Cowboys Stadium will be a shrine to comfort when it comes to football watching, but if it's comfort I want I can watch from my living room. I want to brave the elements along with the players; where teams have to take the wind into consideration or rain makes the pigskin as slippery as a soap covered rubber ducky.

The concessions do seem to offer a variety of good eats, if only I could afford them. I've never figured out why professional sports teams feel it is their sworn duty to gouge the fans at every turn when it comes to food and drink. The dogs are $5.50, bottled water is $5.00 (I just bought a case of 24 for $3.99), and a soft drink that looks to be about 15-20 ounces is $6.00 (the commemorative cup must be $5.00). I guess I could afford a bag of chips for only $3.00.

Now I know what you're thinking; what a bunch of belly aching. Hey, I just call it like I see it. Besides, I just found a site where I can get a decent seat to a Cowboy game for only $300 and I have a plan.

I paid big bucks to go to a Texas/OU game a few years ago only to be in a crowd next to some college students. I realized the reason the guys next to us were spilling into our comfort zone was because the three of them were sardined in between two seats. I asked the student next to us what the deal was, and he responded that he and his buddy were splitting a seat. I harkened back to my college days and only then did I refrain from calling security.

Anyone want to split a seat?

Lake Dallas QB Looks for Big Year

The Lake Dallas Falcons, who reside in tough district 5-4A along with Denton Guyer (12-3 in 08'), Denton Ryan (9-4 in 08') and Wichita Falls Rider (8-4 in 08'), are looking for a big year from senior QB James Franklin.

Franklin, who is rated as one the top signal callers in the state and is committed to Missouri, stands 6-3 and weighs 220 lbs. Last year he threw for 2,461 yards and 23 TDs, while rushing for 1,151 yards and 18 TDs.


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Texas QBs Lead 2009 Parade Magazine Team

Texas is renowned for producing great running backs, but that tide has turned in this decade, as the Lone Star State is building a reputation for producing a steady stream of quarterbacks. This years' 2009 Parade Magazine team boasts three Texans among the seven signal callers named to the team.