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Football Friday

Football Friday: Northern Durham at Jordan

This week was our “home game,” if you can call it that, as we stayed around Durham and headed to Charles E. Jordan High School to watch the Falcons face off against the Northern Durham Knights.  It was homecoming at Jordan, plus we had a special 5th Quarter over at Yates Baptist Church after the [...]

Football Friday: Triton at Northwood

Originally, we had plan to head east to Pikeville, NC to see the Charles B. Aycock Golden Falcons take on the James B. Hunt Warriors, but with the threat of rain and the possibility of traveling so far and the game being postponed, we decided to stay a little closer to home. So… we [...]

Football Friday: High Point Central and T.W. Andrews

Our Football Friday stop this week was High Point, for the annual rivalry game between the High Point Central Bison and the T.W. Andrews Red Raiders.  This is the first game I’ve ever been to where both teams share the same stadium.  Andrews was the home team tonight, but if you were to look at [...]

Football Friday: East Burke at Freedom

Friday night was our first long road trip of the year as we headed to Morganton, NC to see the Freedom Patriots take on the East Burke Cavaliers.  It was my first time back to Freedom Stadium since October 1995 when I was there for a band competition that left a bitter taste in my [...]

Football Friday: Mount Airy at Thomasville

Our Football Friday stop took us to Thomasville to see the defending I-AA State Champion Thomasville Bulldogs take on the defending I-A State Champion Mount Airy Bears.  The threat of rain lingered all throughout the game, and lightning was off in the distance when we arrived at the stadium.  Fortunately, the rain stayed north of [...]

Football Friday: Reidsville at Western Alamance

High school football season began last night and our Yates Football Friday Crew (Jeff, John, John Mark, and myself) took off to Elon, NC to see the back-to-back defending state 2-AA champion Reidsville Rams put their 32 game winning streak on the line against the Western Alamance Warriors.
Western Alamance looked like a team that was [...]