St. Louis Area Football Thanksgiving Weekend 2008
Time to switch gears completely and talk about what happened this weekend in St. Louis football, from high school to college to professional. This was the weekend when we saw local high school teams excel, the state powerhouse football program have one half of a great game, and our highly compensated professional team fall flat on its embarrassing face.
Let's start with High School football. For the past decade, St. Louis area high schools routinely make it to the state finals to get beaten by some team from the Kansas City area. But this was the year in a while for not just the St. Louis area, but for one area district to actually win two state championships! The Hazelwood School District is now the home to both the Missouri Class 6 and the Class 5 champions with the Hazelwood Central Hawks and the Hazelwood East Spartans. East won first on Friday night with a final second "Hail Mary" touchdown to win their championship over Raytown South, and then on Saturday Central won over Blue Springs South. They were both close games that could easily gone either way, but at the end both Hazelwood teams prevailed. They must be pretty proud of them in North County!
Next came Mizzou who had a pretty good game offensively scoring 37 points. Unfortunately, Kansas scored 40 points and they moved the ball up and down the field just as easily as Mizzou did. It is difficult to win a game without a good passing defense, and Mizzou just could not stop Kansas and their passing game. It will be interesting to see how they perform against Oklahoma next week.
And then there are the St. Louis Rams. At least the high school games brought some excitement to the Edward Jones Dome this weekend, since the Rams sure did not. The amazing thing was that since the Rams were playing the mediocre Dolphins, they actually had a chance to win all the way into the fourth quarter. But of course, they did not compete, they did not even score a touchdown. I used to like Marc Bulger too, but he has already been given plenty of chances (not to mention the very generous contract). The Rams need something to jolt them out of complacency.
Let's start with High School football. For the past decade, St. Louis area high schools routinely make it to the state finals to get beaten by some team from the Kansas City area. But this was the year in a while for not just the St. Louis area, but for one area district to actually win two state championships! The Hazelwood School District is now the home to both the Missouri Class 6 and the Class 5 champions with the Hazelwood Central Hawks and the Hazelwood East Spartans. East won first on Friday night with a final second "Hail Mary" touchdown to win their championship over Raytown South, and then on Saturday Central won over Blue Springs South. They were both close games that could easily gone either way, but at the end both Hazelwood teams prevailed. They must be pretty proud of them in North County!
Next came Mizzou who had a pretty good game offensively scoring 37 points. Unfortunately, Kansas scored 40 points and they moved the ball up and down the field just as easily as Mizzou did. It is difficult to win a game without a good passing defense, and Mizzou just could not stop Kansas and their passing game. It will be interesting to see how they perform against Oklahoma next week.
And then there are the St. Louis Rams. At least the high school games brought some excitement to the Edward Jones Dome this weekend, since the Rams sure did not. The amazing thing was that since the Rams were playing the mediocre Dolphins, they actually had a chance to win all the way into the fourth quarter. But of course, they did not compete, they did not even score a touchdown. I used to like Marc Bulger too, but he has already been given plenty of chances (not to mention the very generous contract). The Rams need something to jolt them out of complacency.
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