The Stevens County youth have been flexing their muscles in football, that's for sure. Do y'all realize that the Morris and Hancock teams have won all their games in this season of 2024? We can go further in asserting the superiority: our teams have been winning in a one-sided way most of the time.
My restaurant server at DeToy's said she felt sorry for one of Hancock's opponents earlier this season. I appreciate that sentiment. It comes from a female whose gender is known to be empathetic and nurturing. We need more of that kind of attitude. Not sure I'd feel comfortable at a Hancock game where the "Owls" are so completely sinking their talons into an opponent. Like in the most recent game.
I'd want to leave early.
Men believe in destroying things while women are empathetic and caring. This helps us understand why so many men stick with Donald Trump. Maybe you're amused by that observation. We may all stop being amused come November. Oh we pray we can have a normal election. But the possibility exists that virtual hell could break loose even with violent conflict.
We got a taste of the conflict in 2020. And our own congressperson appeared to sympathize with the insurrection attempt. She voted against certifying the election results. So she wanted to see a violent overthrow of the Federal government. We can surmise that. But we'll probably elect her again. And, she's totally "pro-life." "Pro-life" is not such a simple proposition.
But I know a lot of you don't want to have your brains taxed too much. Just keep your "Trump" signs up and then try to "report" the people who have the Harris signs. This is happening, more down South than here.
Our Tigers of MACA took charge totally in their Friday game for the 2024 Homecoming. A happier atmosphere could not be found anywhere, for sure. I again took advantage of the $8 "burger basket" offering just outside the grandstand. What a reasonable offer! A meal for 8 bucks. Will it be back next year? I sat at one of the picnic tables.
I remember that for years I'd see Sharon Martin watching over all the junior high kids that gathered north of the playing field, close to the P.E. Center. Big Cat Field is old enough to have its own history now. Sharon's presence over there is a part of that. And as I've told her several times, it's a special gift to be able to work with junior high kids. Adolescents! I'm not sure I even survived that.
A good movie for appreciating the junior high phase of life is "Bad Teacher" with Cameron Diaz. The movie has some Hollywood taste issues but just try to ignore that.
Idyllic
The whole day Friday was perfect for the Morris Area Homecoming and the football game. The 24-0 score could not have polished things off better.
The MACA and Hancock teams are just making things look too easy this fall. Some of our past coaches would give their right arm to have a season like this. What gives? All our kids are maybe "above average?" Maybe that's it. Only Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton has really challenged the Tigers. We have won by shutout twice. Thief River Falls and East Grand Forks have been our shutout victims.
Two games remain on the slate. Both will be on the road vs. Perham and Fergus Falls. Someone told me this morning we'll get a stiff challenge from those Otters of Fergus.
Thanks and God bless
The person who took my $ for the burger basket remembered me from my newspaper work locally and was hugely complimentary toward me. She attended high school in Chokio-Alberta, and of course I was always enthusiastic about C-A sports activities.
It has been so long since the newspaper phase of my life which was the absolute defining stage of my life. I have really just drifted ever since. I'm left to wonder why/how it disintegrated. We cannot always find logic in such things. That's because we're in a desperate jungle so much surrounded by "beasts" that are acting on instinct.
The company that owned the Morris and Hancock papers at the time I left ended up leaving town. They weren't so smart after all. Sue Dieter was actually not my biggest problem at the end, may not have been a big factor at all. She could be generous in some ways. The dagger was applied to me by someone else in management. I'm not sure he even answered to Sue. He may have answered to someone higher up.
The Forum had some well-known "headhunters" in the upper realm of management. Well congrats Forum Communications, you demonstrated that even a multi-tiered company like yours can be a failure: you sure left a turd here in Morris.
Now the Hancock paper is gone and the Morris paper under different ownership has shriveled greatly from what it once offered us. I ask y'all to go online today (Saturday) and look for highlights of the Homecoming football game. Click on "sports." See what the paper's priorities are now. MACA is almost invisible. Why do you accept this?
Our kids might all be above average but the adults aren't - so many still support Donald Trump uncritically. You are lemmings! Trump chased off the foreign students from places like UMM and now many of these places are hanging by a thread. The foreign students were UMM's "cash cow." Doesn't money influence your priorities in life? Or are you more concerned with sending the Haitians home from Springfield, Ohio.
Again, you are lemmings.
The Tigers surged on Friday largely by being able to take advantage of "short fields." We set the tone early as Jack Kehoe deflected a pass and made an interception at the 12. Kye Suess then scored two plays later. The Green Wave had no first downs in the first quarter.
Drew Huebner, whose mom was the one who complimented me pre-game, passed to Riley Asmus for a big chunk of yardage: 43 yards. Riley Saito capitalized on the field position to kick a field goal. So we're up 10-0. Our defense stopped an EGF threat just before halftime.
The Wave's problems with turnovers would continue. One of these was on a gimmick play attempt by the Wave: the "hook-and-ladder." I immediately think of former MACA coach Jerry Witt and his wizardry with this play! But the execution wasn't there for the Wave. The lateral was high. The orange and black took advantage. Huebner carried into the end zone.
Asmus intercepted two passes in the fourth quarter. Our final TD came on the "Huebner connection" of Drew and brother Jonah. The play covered 15 yards. So it's 24-0 and fans could file this game away as yet another 'W'.
MACA fans are now ready to go on the road. Then it's playoffs!
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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