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The most wonderful time of the year! To celebrate, I give you the best entrance in college football.

High school football kicked off this past Friday night and our first Football Friday of 2010 took us to Hillsborough where we saw the Orange Panthers take on the Jordan Falcons. The opening play from scrimmage where Jordan gained 30 yards on a toss sweep pretty much set the scene for how this one was [...]

We’re about a month out from high school football and “Football Fridays” starting up again and hopefully I’ll be posting soon about where we’re going for the first game of the year.  In anticipation of the upcoming season though, I thought I would post about a game I will never forget. To set the scene [...]

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 [...]

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 headed [...]

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 [...]

If there’s any professional team I love more than the Cubs, it’s the Washington Redskins.  I’ve been a fan for most of my life.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, the Redskins lost to the Giants… I know it stinks, but it was the first game of the season, it was the Giants and it was in New [...]

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 [...]

RealClearSports ranked the top 10 college football team entrances and the ACC represents rather nicely. Miami’s “storm smoke”, Chief Osceola planting the flaming spear before Florida State runs out, and Clemson’s “most exciting 25 seconds in college football.” Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” clearly helps Virginia Tech have an electrifying open, and no complaints ranking one of [...]

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 [...]