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  Back on the Football Show North Jersey sports.com original
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  multimedia series talking all things football across North
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  Jersey and we are all together again.
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  I am Corey Doviak, being joined by my illustrious panel of North
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  Jersey football insiders, starting with the venerable 1.
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  He is Jim Avatable. What's going on, Jim?
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  Hey, what's up Core? We're, you know, he's going
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  fast. We're ready into Week 4 for some
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  teams. So it it's just amazing.
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  It really it flies. And tonight we're gonna well,
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  this show is all about Bryan Carr.
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  Jimmy, you know, I love having you sitting there in the in the,
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  in the, you know, in the passenger seat right next to me.
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  I mean, you've been the right hand guy for 13 seasons on the
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  football show. But tonight it's all about the
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  other one, the head Husky, the Pope of the Cardinal of the
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  Westwood, the Bulldog, these all these things.
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  He is Brian Carr and I'll explain shortly.
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  But hello, Brian, welcome back to New Jersey.
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  Hey, welcome back. Good to be back.
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  I it doesn't feel like I left. I was remote for a couple of
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  weeks and now that I've been back for games, I'm back baby
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  and back in Jersey and good to talk about the Huskies 3 and O
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  good for Dan. Congrats.
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  We're talking to the coach and good football by the way.
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  A lot of scoring. I saw a lot of scoring man,
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  three games court, no defense a lot of places, but a lot of
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  scoring. So we'll talk about.
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  Yeah, well, let's just you, you, you shot the plot right?
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  I mean, tonight we are going to talk DuMont Husky football in
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  depth with head coach Mike Farrington.
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  The Huskies are off to a three and O start they have.
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  It was an impressive 38 to 8 victory over a Dwight Morrow
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  team that gave Ramsey all it could handle in the first week
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  of the season. You know right you just say, oh,
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  the Huskies are good. Well, I mean what what what's
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  going on? Is the love affair over?
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  Did you break up? I mean knows not to go to the
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  game. I can't.
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  Figure it out. I mean, you're the DuMont.
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  Hey, listen, sometimes you got to be other places.
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  I know I will mention the person's name, but there's a a
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  person that lives in DuMont. His daughter is a cheerleader
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  for the Huskies, but he is affiliated with a team up in
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  Ramsey. So he where was he at Friday
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  night? He was where I was.
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  But you know, hey, we'll catch up with those Huskies or, you
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  know, we'll see him along the way.
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  There's a lot of football out there, Corey.
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  There's only one game you can be out of the time and I haven't
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  figured out how to be a two or three unless I'm Pat Wright and
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  I stay home and I watch 5 different screens a month.
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  But no, but you know, it's, hey, we'll talk to Mike and we'll get
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  an update on where the Huskies are.
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  And I try to stay close living in town and know, you know, half
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  my ear and I, I talked to alumni.
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  I talked to two alumni today as well.
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  One of our previous guests I saw today, John McCann back back in
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  1974. He was on one of our
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  Thanksgiving shows, talked to Cory Lacapola too, former
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  quarterback from about 2012. So just keep we shouldn't talk
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  to those local guys, you know, and that's what's all about
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  Corey. It's unbelievable stories we
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  tell Coach Del Caso. You know, I've been talking
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  about that with with my army buddies two weeks ago, Coach Del
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  Caso, you know, so it's all about our connections and
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  networking, what these guys do for the sport at the bottom
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  line, these coaches. Tony Carson's back in the
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  sideline of Joe's come on, Greg told sideline of Bergen.
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  These are legends in there. We get to go see these games if
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  they're there. So not for me.
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  We'll talk. Hockey is coming up or.
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  Yes, just remind me to tell my Tony Carson story after we
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  talked to Mike Farrington. I'm going to make a note of that
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  because just talk about small circles and the old small
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  circles. I want to tell you about that,
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  but I don't know Jimmy. Do we let him off the hook that
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  easy? I mean, what do you think is
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  going on here? Well, some some people in Duma
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  actually believe the three and O start is due to the fact that he
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  hasn't been. So you know, that's a that's a
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  people are investigating that that thing.
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  But you know, you you mentioned DuMont.
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  You know, one thing strikes me a an experienced senior class and
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  then through the wars that, you know, opening night at Garfield,
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  they're down. They find a way to win that
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  Teaneck, they're down. They find a way to to win that
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  and pretty dramatic fashion. And then you mention against the
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  white Morrow, you know, a team that offensively can score
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  points and and not the fact that they won surprised me.
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  The fact that they really shut down the white moral that that
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  that made me open my eyes a little bit.
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  All right, well, we welcome in our guest on this edition of the
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  Football Show. And Brian, I want you to take a
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  deep breath because I don't want you to get starstruck.
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  We are having the head coach, the head muckety muck of the
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  mighty DuMont Husky program is going to be joining us shortly.
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  So are you OK? Are you OK?
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  Brian? We can continue.
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  Yeah, yeah. I was just taking a deep breath.
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  I'm good. Yeah.
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  You know what? I'll say one thing.
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  I'll mention Corey, one thing. What I had to do a little
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  planning for this show. I had to call up some former
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  Huskies to kind of get, you know, hey, what do you think?
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  So I'll mention that a little later, you know.
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  OK, well now we can bring them in the head coach of the three
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  and O DuMont Huskies. You know, Brian, we we talk a
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  lot of DuMont football on the football show throughout the
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  years. But you know, a lot of times
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  it's about the Thanksgiving tradition.
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  It's about the this and that. So many different things.
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  Now we are having the head coach on because the friggin Huskies
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  are three and O Hello Mike Farrington.
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  Hello guys, how you doing? Thank you for having me.
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  I appreciate it. It's our pleasure and it's Brian
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  Carr's pleasure because the hometown team is 3 and O I'm
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  going to start off because I have a feeling that somebody
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  else is going to dominate this conversation.
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  So I'm going to fire I'm going to fire one off at you and then
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  we'll see where it goes from there.
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  But I mean, I saw you at picture day and you were cautiously
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  optimistic. I say how we looking and you
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  said, you know, if we can get off, we're going to be
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  competitive and, you know, with these games and if we can get
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  off to a good start, well, you're off to a good start. 3
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  and OA. You know, a pretty convincing
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  victory over what looks like a pretty good Dwight Morrow team.
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  I mean, I know you were cautiously optimistic.
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  How you feeling now? Same.
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  I don't think it's going to, I don't think it's going to change
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  because you know, success is, is is tough to handle sometimes,
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  right? They always teach you how to
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  deal with failure, but no one really has how teachers how to
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  deal with success and being successful.
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  So we make sure that we humble the kids each week.
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  But yeah, just like when I saw you on picture day, it was just
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  like a different vibe. You know, the coaching staff and
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  myself, this is our first full class that went through a
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  freshman all the way up. So they know they know the
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  insurance and outs of the program and they preach it every
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  day. And it's it's it's.
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  It's. Actually, and I think I said
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  this here, it's enjoyable to show up every day.
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  The kids are ready to work, they're into it and stuff, and
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  that just makes my job a lot easier.
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  OK bro, have at it. No, I have to say, you know,
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  coach mentions since he's been there.
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  I mean, I looked up the record just to be prepared here, right?
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  So coach with this three and O start, he's now 20 and 11 with
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  one time last year. You know, I'm going to get to a
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  point a question, but I one other thing that I looked up
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  besides the Ivy season where they had a great year in the Ivy
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  8 game-winning streak to start the season.
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  They have not been three and O since 2008.
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  So quite an accomplishment to get to this point because it's
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  hard to get there. You know, a lot of teams and
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  they're lucky sometimes they've had 500 records.
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  One of my question here, is Ivy really successful back in 2021?
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  What do you think, do you think? I think the Ivy probably helped
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  a lot to get success and actually success winning.
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  Now it continues to build a program.
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  When you have success like that, what are your thoughts?
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  Yeah, 100%. And that's something I tell the
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  kids every day. This is what good programs do
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  they, they're consistent, you know, winning games and and
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  setting the standard. And that kind of started in 2001
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  with that, you know, coming off the heels of 2020, not knowing
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  what the season would look like. We definitely wanted to get
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  games for the guys and continue growing.
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  And that's what we did there. And then that obviously just
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  translated into the next year with our, you know, our, our
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  state playoffs and then that first round win, which was huge
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  first time in 20 years. So we're just keep continuing to
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  build. And now the rec program is back
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  in DuMont 2, which is a huge boost of morale.
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  There's a lot of excitement around it.
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  And we're just trying to do things the right way and we're
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  trying to show everybody what good programs do.
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  The kids understand that, and they're following suit.
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  Tell us about your senior leadership, MM Senior
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  leadership? You've got your quarterback,
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  your running back. So what?
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  2 quarterback he had against way more, 2 touchdowns and then he
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  threw for a score. So he ran for two and he threw
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  for for one. Talk about some of the seniors
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  and all. I think it's Onyx, right?
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  Onyx. To.
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  Get a really good game, I think against probably both of the
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  first two games. Go ahead, talk to me about them.
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  Yeah, yeah, Onyx is fresh off the heels of his Athlete of the
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  Week. When for his performance against
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  Teaneck with two touchdowns over 100 yards in the ground, a catch
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  for 25 for a touchdown. So that's huge.
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  And Michael Gill, I keep telling everybody about his arm, but
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  he's showing us his legs this year.
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  He really is listening to us about running with the football
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  and stuff like that. And he's a big kid.
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  He's 62190, so he's not easy to bring down.
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  And when he runs with force, he's pretty good.
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  And we got about, we got 14 seniors on the team and that 14
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  seniors, you know, couple kids in and out throughout the years.
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  But those 14 have been with us, 90% of them since their freshman
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  year and just growing with that and understanding what we're
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  trying to do. And they're seeing the work in
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  every single day. And we got a lot of multi sport
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  athletes too, which is huge for a group to school sharing
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  athletes, getting the guys to play and buy into everything.
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  And I can't praise my coaching staff enough now.
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  We got the head basketball coach on staff.
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  We got the head softball coach on staff.
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  I got a former head coach at Garfield.
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  I got a former head coach in Nutley.
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  So we, we, we got a great staff and the kids, I think the kids
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  see that, they understand that and they know everybody's here
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  to try to make them better and they're following it.
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  You're killing me. You just wait, you just use all
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  the talking points. I I did, you know, I make I make
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  it sound easy, but you know, I do a little show prep too.
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  And I was on the horn with the athletic director over there at
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  DuMont and he gave me all these talking points and you just hit
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  all of them. So I have nothing else left to
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  say other than, yeah, how is it to work for the best athletic
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  director and a Co host here of talking baseball on North Jersey
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  sports.com? I mean, Joseph Terry, it's got
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  to be like it's a dream to see his face every day when you
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  walk. Yeah, Yeah, you could say that.
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  That's a nice thing to say. I would use other words no,
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  Yeah. What kind of dream is up for
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  debate? But, you know, hey, yeah, A.
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  100% but I mean, having having a guy like like coach, like coach
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  the terror just come in and he understands what we're trying to
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  do and being a part of the town and having such success as a
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  coach too. He I asked for something and he
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  doesn't. He rarely says no, right?
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  And if he says no, he knows it's an impossible thing.
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  Yeah, but he's always supportive.
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  Since the day I stepped into this, since he hired me as the
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  head football coach, was, like, his first major hire pretty much
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  when he came in, You know, he's just had my back.
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  And he continues to have my back.
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  And he supports the program. And not just football.
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  He's there for all the athletes. He gets it.
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  And that makes it so easy to just to show up and just not,
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  have not to be afraid to have a conversation with him.
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  You know, just, and I bounce things off of him and it's he's
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  great just to just to be like a great resource for me.
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  Yeah, I mean, all kidding aside, he is a big proponent of multi
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  sport athletes and you can see this is his fourth or fifth year
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  as the athletic director and you can see how it's, you know,
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  picked up where, you know, that's a a major point of
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  emphasis for the entire athletic program.
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  Yeah, especially on the small school, like we have what 750
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  ish kids in the building. I mean, you got to share
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  athletes and all the programs are starting to see that.
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  And now having multiple, you know, coaches on the staff, we,
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  we even me and Coach Butler, we get the kids together.
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  We've worked out in the weight room all all season together.
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  We joined the programs together all all season because kids
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  they, you know, they work together and they won't see the
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  other kids work hard. They're sweating, they're
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  working, they're sprinting, they're lifting, all that stuff.
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  And that just makes them appreciate each other more and
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  seeing the hard work that everybody's putting in.
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  And I think that just throws everybody together.
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  That's awesome. I didn't even realize you were
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  doing that. That's Matt Butler for, you
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  know, the son of former Demarest athletic director Mike Butler.
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  And, you know, he's a young, the basketball coach, a young, you
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  know, a good young up and coming coach as someone has in the
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  district. Go ahead, Brian.
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  Oh, no. Looking forward, coach.
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  I mean, you've got some tough games coming up down the road,
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  but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.
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  You know, you do have to play Westwood, Mahwah Ramsey up ahead
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  this week. You go over and play next door
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  neighbors. Basically, you're going to play
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  Bergenfield. We'll call it the Battle of
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  Washington Ave. What are you looking forward to
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  here on a sun on a Saturday afternoon at noon?
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  Kind of unusual time on the grass in Bergen or at home?
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  I'm sorry. At home?
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  Yeah, home. Usually don't play a lot of
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  Saturday games at home, mostly Friday nights.
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  What are you looking forward to and expecting to do with this
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  game? It's going to be a high noon
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  slug fest. So if you've seen any of our
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  games the last three years, it's coming down to the last field
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  goal, the last possession. It's who's going to drag each
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  other off the ground. It's a it's a, it's a
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  championship fight and both towns get up for it.
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  It's like a newer rivalry for the kids.
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  They grow up, they're static. You said Washington Ave.
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  They're so close together. They know a lot of the kids from
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  the other team and it's it's just going to be a hard nosed
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  fight. I'm telling you that right now.
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  It's if you like old school football, you like defense, you
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  like running the ball, you like power.
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  Eye get get to DuMont 12:00 on Saturday.
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  You like sunlight, Do you like little tradition?
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  You know it's going to be it's going to be nice.
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  And aren't they moving into your league next year?
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  Is that happening or because I'm not?
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  Sure. Not sure.
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  I know there's. A big meeting.
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  Today in Southside. Yeah.
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  OK. So we'll leave that.
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  For the smaller people, go ahead, right?
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  Well, really, I mean, the people from Bergenfield, there's some
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  people in Bergenfield could they're closer to DuMont High
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  than people in DuMont and where I live in DuMont.
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  So Bergenfield, they can walk to the game.
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  They should have a parade down there to go watch the game,
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  right? It's like Thanksgiving here.
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  Thanksgiving on Saturday. Yeah.
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  I mean, Bergenfield shows up. They usually they have a big
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  band, so that's like half the crowd.
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  Sometimes they have a gigantic band who stays there and it's a
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  they've won award, of course. I think they've even, they've
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  marched in the the parade, New York City.
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  So expect a big crowd from Bergenfield to show up down
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  there and support their bears. Yeah.
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  I mean, there's a lot to I mean, there's so much around that
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  program this year with the tragic passing of, you know, Rob
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  Diolante last year. And I, I, I do, it's horrible.
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  And but I do feel in in tragedy and grief, you know, people,
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  the, the football program seems to be a focal point because
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  that's what coach Villante loved.
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  And I think, you know, it's a tribute to his legacy and to,
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  you know, just the the good feelings that he brought the I
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  mean, he in tough circumstances, he did a lot of good things with
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  Bergenfield football. And I'm not just talking wins
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  and losses. I'm just talking making it a,
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  you know, a safe place for a lot of kids to be.
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  And I feel like it's great that his legacy can be remembered
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  and, you know, celebrated a little bit here with, you know,
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  a border war, a good border war, a community event wrote.
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  You know, being with a high school football game being the
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  focal point, I think that's awesome.
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  Yeah, when when this game got put on the schedule three years
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  ago, I, I, me and Rob talked about and we loved it and he we
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  were actually their first night game in whatever years they
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  brought in the lights for it. When we played.
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  It was a Friday night. It was like before Labor Day,
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  you know, still week one, it was still early and and we loved it.
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  And then seeing him the last two years and just playing the Bears
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  the last few years has just been a great tradition and I
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  hopefully we can keep it going. I, I really think it's great for
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  the town and how many DuMont and Bergenfield people crossover.
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  Every time I go to Bergenfield, I'm from DuMont, I go to
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  Bergenfield and I go to DuMont, I'm from Bergenfield.
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  Like it's, they, they pretty much is the same town.
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  I feel like, you know, so it's, it's good to say.
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  All right, Mike, now what do you make of this here?
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  Bryant Carr goes on vacation. He completely abandons the state
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  of New Jersey for the for zero week and week one of the high
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  school football season. I mean, it's it's it's heresy in
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  these parts. North Jersey sports.com.
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  It's the Cardinals city. We we know that.
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  Then then he comes back into town.
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  Dumont's 2 and he chooses to go to Ramsey on Friday night.
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  I mean. Where, where do we stand with
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  this? I don't know.
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  I mean I. Lost my parking spot court I
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  have nowhere to park. You can't.
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  There's so much excitement around the town right now.
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  You can't park. It's possible.
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  To do this book. But but we did have, I did have
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  a booster meeting the other night and we were trying to put
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  together a fun to put you back on vacation.
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  So we are three and oh, we got some double good popcorn sales
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  coming up and we're going to try to send you away again.
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  So wherever you got to go, you know you take the family,
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  whatever you got to do. Yeah.
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  And then? Ready to go?
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  Yeah. All right.
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  Well, you got anything else for coach here?
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  I know we can do this with him all night, but he's got some
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  game planning and some film study and some, you know, we're
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  going to put a, we're going to put a knife through your left
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  front tire so you can't try to get up Husky drive there.
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  Mike. Hey, Mike, what up?
• 17:55
  MM? Give us a little history.
• 17:58
  Tell us about your days at Cliffside Park.
• 18:00
  Give a little bit of people don't may not know.
• 18:02
  Tell us you know what it was like back to Chip Side Park a
• 18:05
  little. I tried.
• 18:07
  I tried to get you out, Mike, sorry.
• 18:10
  I What do I got? I got nothing but great memories
• 18:13
  with coach John Brinelli. Grass fields until our junior
• 18:16
  year. We had to go away in Powell
• 18:18
  Park. We had to practice in Powell
• 18:19
  Park, Leonia on the goose poo poo down there for the for the
• 18:23
  summer. We had to play our first three
• 18:24
  games away and then we opened up against Westwood our first game
• 18:28
  and we were able to beat them the first time in forever.
• 18:30
  It was nice article about it. You know, Raji and Meekins were
• 18:33
  on the team. Great memories there.
• 18:35
  And that was that was a great victory.
• 18:36
  But my time at close side was great and I love this.
• 18:39
  I love to see the Raiders doing good.
• 18:41
  Hey, one last one, Last one. Did you play against Coach Dunn
• 18:44
  at Rutherford? Steve Dunn at all when he was.
• 18:47
  Yeah, I played against. Yeah, I played against that
• 18:50
  whole posse, all those guys, and it was good to see them when we
• 18:53
  made it to the States that one time.
• 18:54
  They're they're good guys and they're doing great stuff over
• 18:56
  there. And every time we talk, it's
• 18:57
  just, it's just nothing but love between those guys.
• 18:59
  Yeah. Yeah, great guys.
• 19:02
  OK, Yeah. Mike Farrington, head coach of
• 19:05
  the DuMont Fighting Huskies, everybody.
• 19:07
  Bryant Carr's favorite coach, favorite guest of the year so
• 19:11
  far, actually the first guest of the year and every guest is his
• 19:15
  favorite guest. So whoever have on next week
• 19:16
  will take your place. But for now, in this moment,
• 19:20
  he's your favorite. So thank you very much for
• 19:23
  joining us. Good luck this week.
• 19:24
  And, you know, continued success.
• 19:27
  Everybody's watching, you know that.
• 19:29
  Thank you. Yeah, thank you.
• 19:30
  And go Huskies, gentlemen. That was good stuff there with
• 19:33
  DuMont head coach Mike Farrington, Jimmy Avatable back
• 19:38
  with us now due to some technical constraints here on
• 19:41
  the new setup at North Jersey sports.com that we're going to
• 19:44
  figure out as the season goes along, but we'll get there
• 19:46
  anyway. All right, let's move on to the
• 19:48
  broader North Jersey high school scene.
• 19:51
  Jimmy. You know, DuMont doing well,
• 19:54
  obviously, but there's some other teams that deserve the the
• 19:57
  shout out and everything else. And I'll, I'll start with the
• 20:00
  one right now because it's an old rivalry.
• 20:03
  You think of the great Drew Gibbs versus Chuck Johnson, the
• 20:06
  Wing T against the spread offense, all those type of
• 20:09
  things. It was, you know, Ramapo,
• 20:12
  Ridgewood and A1 sided Ramapo 52 to 7 victory over Ridgewood.
• 20:18
  And you know, I, I don't mean to bring it up to pick up to pick
• 20:21
  on Ridgewood, but Ramapo is an outlier.
• 20:23
  They got more numbers than any other public school team in
• 20:27
  North Jersey, for sure. In New Jersey.
• 20:31
  They're certainly up there with the best of them.
• 20:34
  And you know, from what I understand in Wyckoff and the
• 20:37
  rec program, there are so many kids that they had to divide up,
• 20:40
  I think got three teams. One of the local guys here in in
• 20:44
  the Northern Valley is familiar with the Wyckoff program.
• 20:48
  It was just telling me they got kids running around all over the
• 20:50
  place. So Jimmy, I mean, round pole on
• 20:52
  the varsity level, 52 to 7 over Ridgewood.
• 20:55
  And their football program is healthy from top to bottom,
• 20:58
  which is not something you can say about a lot of places in
• 21:01
  North Jersey and New Jersey this season and beyond.
• 21:04
  No, hey, listen, they, they, they've got it rolling out there
• 21:08
  and, and listen, we're a football show not only in
• 21:10
  football, but in, in, in the majority of their sports, great
• 21:14
  junior programs, as you mentioned.
• 21:17
  And you know, we, we've talked about that, how once they
• 21:20
  decided that you can go to any school from Franklin Lakes,
• 21:26
  Oakland, Wyckoff, it's, it's really put a, a, a bolt of
• 21:31
  lightning into that ram of the program.
• 21:34
  You know, Ridgewood. Ridgewood was 2 and O And, and
• 21:37
  it was interesting to see, I was waiting to see what the result
• 21:40
  was that because, you know, Ridgewood had two wins, 2 and O
• 21:43
  going in. But they had beaten a Clifton
• 21:46
  team who, you know, is, is a struggling program and they had
• 21:50
  beaten Montclair, who was a struggling program.
• 21:53
  And they did give up. 300 was passing to Montclair.
• 21:56
  So, you know, going in, I was interested to see that.
• 22:00
  And you know, Ramapo certainly took care of business.
• 22:04
  Yeah, you, you mentioned Clifton struggling AT136 loss to the
• 22:08
  sake this week. They're all in three six points
• 22:10
  and yeah, play on the road to the sake anyway, Yeah, so Ramapo
• 22:14
  flying, you know, they they lose Charlie Wingfield to the ACC and
• 22:20
  a couple other quality seniors and they just, you know, it's
• 22:24
  it's crazy by how round football is round football from Mike
• 22:29
  Marlow to Drew Gibbs and now to Nick Catuso.
• 22:34
  Yeah, Corey, you're right. I mean the other thing, like we
• 22:36
  talked last week a lot about programs, you know, you have a
• 22:39
  program through Gribbs was there for years, very successful and
• 22:43
  the kids continue to flow. I mean, you have quarterback
• 22:46
  Casey Grosser, I mean you have Grossers that run through there.
• 22:50
  You've had Wing Fields running through there.
• 22:52
  You know the names of going through and the program.
• 22:56
  It's a program and they continue to succeed.
• 22:59
  The names have been going on last couple years here.
• 23:01
  Liam Hayward had a really good game too.
• 23:04
  Senior had a fumble, returned it for a touchdown.
• 23:07
  You also ran for 95 yards in a score.
• 23:10
  You know Casey Gresser, they always get some of the best
• 23:13
  quarterbacks and we've seen him over the years.
• 23:14
  You know, Charlie de Prima, really, really good.
• 23:18
  You guys can fly down the field. Kind of reminds you.
• 23:20
  Now we're up in the Mahalo MZ game talking about Kyle Teal.
• 23:25
  Everybody should know about Kyle Tia, but I remember when up
• 23:27
  there when he was at Mahwah as a quarterback and playing
• 23:31
  Westwood, they couldn't stop and get the ball gone, gone.
• 23:34
  So we've got some really good quarterbacks and this is the new
• 23:37
  one now. Casey Gushner is doing a really
• 23:39
  good job. And so that kind of Corey, I
• 23:42
  don't want to get too far ahead, but Leeds is probably the game
• 23:44
  game of the week, probably in Bergen County.
• 23:48
  Most people probably agree public school wise, they're
• 23:51
  going to go up to world headquarters up in Japan.
• 23:56
  This. Round the poll is at old Japan
• 23:59
  and you've got you know we never care.
• 24:01
  We've talked about all the time. They are the only team in North
• 24:04
  Jersey with two time state champs in the last what, five
• 24:08
  years? We've been doing this for years.
• 24:10
  They're only, they're the only one with three two.
• 24:16
  No, no, it's only it's two, right?
• 24:18
  I I think. I'm good.
• 24:20
  Yeah, they played. They played down to a group
• 24:22
  champion three times and Old Japan's won twice.
• 24:24
  They won the. Two of them, yeah and really and
• 24:26
  West was the only other public school in North Jersey that has
• 24:30
  what you know what I mean so there's hardly anybody that's a
• 24:34
  they're in elite. We we've talked about you know
• 24:36
  we've talked about old Japan. You can listen to any of our
• 24:38
  shows and we thought old Japan we talked about again what I did
• 24:41
  say before about Rana program. It's been 20 years, right?
• 24:45
  Every everybody knows since both the two brothers were there, the
• 24:49
  two folders you had Devin, then you had Jordan.
• 24:52
  I mean and just to continue, it's not just those guys.
• 24:55
  Other guys continue today. It's a program and so it's going
• 24:59
  to be exciting to go up there. That's the game.
• 25:03
  We haven't been to old Japan this year.
• 25:05
  I'm surprised Corey, you haven't gave me a nickname of Old Japan
• 25:08
  because Shell long time AG was one of my best buddies.
• 25:13
  Now, Lorenzo's up there, Lorenzo Barrage, for those who don't
• 25:17
  know, Lorenzo up from Indian Hills and stuff.
• 25:19
  These guys are great guys. We talk about this.
• 25:21
  This is what's so good about the games.
• 25:23
  It's not just the game and the games have been really good, but
• 25:25
  it's also the people, the coaches, the administrators, you
• 25:28
  know, and. Jimmy, we love them.
• 25:30
  All of you. Jimmy, he's the goldenest of the
• 25:33
  nights. Yes, now, now he's now he's now
• 25:39
  he's angling for front row part. You forgot 1, you forgot, you
• 25:45
  forgot one. He's the zebra of the referee
• 25:48
  too. He really?
• 25:52
  Is the zebra of the referee more than anything else, Joe?
• 25:55
  Belcher, thank you. Come on.
• 25:57
  Who's not to like Dave Lawrence DuMont?
• 26:00
  Hey, Johnny Wade. Come on, guys.
• 26:02
  You all know Johnny Wade all. Right, so let me let's let's go
• 26:07
  on, let's move on a little bit here quickly.
• 26:09
  You know, the game that had some intrigue to it in the big boy
• 26:13
  division was, you know, Burke Catholic against Winslow
• 26:16
  Winslow, the number one rated a public school in New Jersey up
• 26:20
  against Burton Catholic. And you know, I didn't see the
• 26:22
  game. I don't I don't watch the Super
• 26:24
  Football Conference network or whatever it was on or whatever.
• 26:27
  But just looking at the final score 41 to 14, Jimmy, I don't
• 26:31
  know if you know much about more about, you know, game control
• 26:34
  and what was it over early did Winslow hanging?
• 26:36
  I mean it only lost by it was. It was 41 nothing and and and
• 26:42
  Bergen plugged. I mean, you know, it was no, it
• 26:46
  was actually taped that we were watching a little bit of a
• 26:50
  before the Ramsey game on the sideline.
• 26:53
  It was actually streamed by Winslow Township.
• 26:56
  I guess they had their students doing it.
• 26:58
  And you know, what jumps out at you is just the discrepancy in
• 27:02
  the line play offensively and defensively.
• 27:05
  I mean, Winslow has some wonderful skill athletes as so
• 27:09
  does Burden. But ultimately, can Winslow hold
• 27:13
  up for 48 minutes up front and. And the answer is no.
• 27:17
  And you know what, let's be honest, would you expect them
• 27:19
  to? You know, it's just, it's.
• 27:24
  Just. Yeah, I mean, Bergen Bergen's
• 27:27
  got it going on and they're three, you know, they went
• 27:30
  through their battery of tests. Now this week they they settle
• 27:35
  in, they'll play Pope John who's struggling.
• 27:37
  So, you know, I think that I think the easy game comes at the
• 27:41
  at the good spot for Bergen because the following week it's
• 27:46
  team from Ramsey was going to be another big game and and I think
• 27:50
  Bosco's three and O Corey for the first time since what, 2014
• 27:55
  or something, something crazy like that.
• 27:57
  So it's going to be interesting. Yeah, and you know with with
• 28:01
  three out of state wins for Don Bosco too.
• 28:03
  So very impressive start. And and then I they have.
• 28:07
  Speaking of that though, Jimmy, they have a bye week.
• 28:10
  I mean, Bergen might have both of them too, but you know.
• 28:14
  Yeah, Bergen, Bergen, I expect Bergen to be a little bit flat.
• 28:20
  Obviously coming down off off those three wins.
• 28:23
  I I would expect them to be a little flat, but ultimately
• 28:26
  they'll, they'll pull away and not another big game.
• 28:29
  Guys, I own a prep who was the defending state champ, went into
• 28:33
  Paramus Catholic and that was a back and forth affair and wound
• 28:38
  up being a 5848 game. You know, they came to the
• 28:42
  quarterback for Paramus Catholic Green, who you know, you got to
• 28:46
  in a day of kids not getting the start and leaving and
• 28:49
  transferring. He sat by for two years.
• 28:52
  He threw for over 400 yards in the game and they found that
• 28:56
  they wound up a little bit short.
• 28:57
  They had an opportunity to cut it to three and unfortunately
• 29:01
  fumble on the 1 yard line going in.
• 29:03
  But you know, very, very talented.
• 29:05
  I own a prep team, a wide receiver running back combo that
• 29:09
  were just explosive. So you know, Paramus Catholic
• 29:13
  being in parochial B. You know, that loss really
• 29:16
  doesn't hurt them because you know, if they continue to get a
• 29:20
  little bit better, I see them in DePaul as the as the two
• 29:24
  finalists, possibly in non public B.
• 29:28
  I didn't even know they were. I didn't realize that they were
• 29:30
  in non public. B, That's a a big development.
• 29:32
  That's for yeah. What time do they turn the
• 29:35
  lights out in Paramus on Friday night?
• 29:37
  Well, the game, the game very similar to Ramsey.
• 29:41
  Ramsey was over 3 hours. The the Paramus Catholic game
• 29:44
  was, was over 3 hours. You know, with a lot of scoring,
• 29:49
  I think, I think the Ramsey first quarter, Brian, if I'm not
• 29:53
  mistaken. Oh, no, I'm sorry.
• 29:56
  That was a Richfield Park. Richfield.
• 29:59
  Park it was in a 45 minute first quarter.
• 30:02
  So just, you know, listen, you got to feel bad for a lot of the
• 30:07
  defenses today because these offenses, these spread offenses
• 30:11
  are so prolific. It it, it really is a tough
• 30:15
  thing to with all these seven on sevens and practices in the
• 30:19
  summer. I I just think that the offenses
• 30:21
  are, are way ahead of the defenses.
• 30:25
  Yeah, and it's speaking. I was going to say, Speaking of
• 30:28
  that, Joe was talking about dominating wins.
• 30:31
  Jimmy didn't make it his mother's birthday, but Bobby and
• 30:34
  I, Larry, made it up to Joe's to see Joe.
• 30:38
  That would seem to be the best game of the day.
• 30:39
  There weren't a lot of games out there, but they were playing,
• 30:42
  hosting Cardinal Hayes and I called it like a track meet.
• 30:45
  I mean, Joe just couldn't be stopped.
• 30:47
  I mean, Nate Bailey, the coach, you know, Augie Hoffman calls
• 30:50
  him the glue to the team. And man, this kid was whenever
• 30:54
  he caught a bomb over his head that many people wouldn't catch
• 30:59
  it. Probably a guy in an NFL or
• 31:00
  college kid would catch, caught one over the head, 40 yard bomb
• 31:04
  over his head. He had to catch and just making
• 31:07
  plays, making runs, scored four touchdowns.
• 31:09
  So that Joe's rolled up 38 and up in half time.
• 31:13
  It was easy. 48 and up in final. By the way, I'll have to shout
• 31:17
  out, we like our kickers. There's the kicker up at Saint
• 31:20
  Joe's. They had another new one.
• 31:22
  They had a lot of good kickers up there.
• 31:23
  His name's Kyle, sophomore had 12 points, 2 field goals and he
• 31:29
  kicked every all six extra points.
• 31:30
  So shout out to those kickers. We don't talk about them enough.
• 31:34
  You know, Nico Otaminelli, that crew, there's some good guys,
• 31:38
  but shout out to our kickers there.
• 31:40
  And Joe's dominating, you know, so it seemed to be the popular
• 31:42
  theme out there. The other one was, I noticed
• 31:45
  too, DePaul. DePaul was pretty solid.
• 31:47
  They played a kind of a down step of that.
• 31:49
  I understand. I think my critic mentioned that
• 31:51
  to me on the sideline of Joe's, but you know credit.
• 31:54
  Did the Paul go up there playing, you know, Curt, their
• 31:57
  quarterback, their examined solid game through for over 200
• 32:00
  yards shut them out 35 nothing. So you know, good for them.
• 32:04
  I it was 1 little issue up there.
• 32:06
  I heard. I don't know if you heard that
• 32:07
  you probably heard Jimmy that the player got hurt in the
• 32:09
  fourth quarter injured and they stopped the game at that point
• 32:12
  so he could be taken care of. So it was I'm already Urban was
• 32:17
  injured by taking the hospital, but he was released the
• 32:19
  following morning. So hey, the other one that stood
• 32:22
  out. Another unusual game Catholic
• 32:25
  against the public. Saint Peter's prep took on
• 32:28
  Shabazz, solid Sabazz program, but they weren't in the same
• 32:33
  league. You know, it was 50 to nothing.
• 32:35
  You know, Shabazz had a very hard time to deal with Saint
• 32:37
  Peter's. Just the same thing with Union
• 32:40
  City 2. Union City two weeks ago had to
• 32:42
  play Saint Peter's just, you know, just didn't have the power
• 32:45
  to man up to down. But Saint Peter's like, you
• 32:48
  know, Bergen will start playing now.
• 32:50
  Saint Peter's is going to play at Dale Barton now.
• 32:52
  Dale Barton's a little off to a slow start at 1:00 and 2:00, but
• 32:55
  you expect things from them. Solid program up there with
• 32:59
  Coach Bryan up there. Does a good job up at Dale Barn.
• 33:02
  So they should be, you know, coming along and that should be
• 33:05
  not easy game for them. But you know, October is when
• 33:09
  the Catholic school is going to really start.
• 33:11
  But I think like the 26th Bosco at the Ramsey team, Bergen
• 33:16
  Burton visiting up there, that'll be the game and we'll
• 33:18
  see where everybody kind of sits.
• 33:21
  I think Jimmy, where PC is hosting Saint Joe's.
• 33:25
  So, you know, you get some local flavored air that PC, you'll get
• 33:28
  the deal with the local team and the competition.
• 33:31
  And you never know, Joe's going to be tough, yeah.
• 33:33
  Well, all right, so let me take this opportunity.
• 33:36
  I want to just tell this quick story of this Tony Carson story.
• 33:38
  You guys brought him up before at Saint Joseph, the long time
• 33:42
  Saint Joe's head coach, long time athletic director and long
• 33:45
  time great guy. So over the summer I was doing a
• 33:49
  story on the McGovern Foundation and there was a whole bunch of
• 33:55
  New Jersey, you know, North Jersey dignitaries running
• 33:57
  around white beaches, Country Club, Hackensack Country Club,
• 33:59
  and I see Tony Carsick. So I'm like, you know what, he's
• 34:02
  one of the guys that I'd like to interview for the story.
• 34:05
  So I said to him, you know, and I used to cover, believe it or
• 34:08
  not, parochial school football back in the day.
• 34:10
  And I had a lot of conversations with coach and, you know, just
• 34:13
  said, hey, like old classic or whatever.
• 34:15
  He said, just give me your name again.
• 34:16
  So I spell my name, you know, Corey Tobiak or whatever.
• 34:19
  And he goes Dobiak. And I said, that's my uncle now.
• 34:24
  It's been my my Uncle Ray played at Cliffside Park High School.
• 34:28
  He graduated in 1963. And it's funny that Mike
• 34:33
  Farrington, who we just had on token DuMont football and he
• 34:36
  mentioned that he played for John Brunelli.
• 34:37
  John Brunelli was a teammate of my uncles at Cliffside Park.
• 34:41
  You know, a whole bunch of other names that are well known
• 34:45
  throughout North Jersey football, including Jimmy and
• 34:48
  I's favorite band, Julia. So anyway, so he says to me,
• 34:53
  Bob, Tony Carson says to me, he says your uncle, so that's your
• 34:58
  uncle. I said, yeah, here you go.
• 34:59
  Proceeds to say I said, let me get my recorder out and you can
• 35:02
  say whatever you want to my uncle.
• 35:03
  So turns out in 1962, the season for the you know, the class of
• 35:08
  19. 93. Cliffside Park was undefeated
• 35:11
  and Hackensack was undefeated. Tony Carson's was obviously on
• 35:14
  Hackensack and he said that he walked in there.
• 35:17
  Hackensack goes in there, walks into Cliffside Park and the
• 35:20
  punt. The center snapped the ball over
• 35:23
  the punter's head. Cliffside Park goes up to
• 35:25
  nothing, and Hackensack goes on to win the game 47 to 2 and
• 35:32
  ending Cliffside Park's undefeated runs of the season
• 35:35
  through the season. And then proceeds to tell me
• 35:37
  that I remember your Uncle Ray and he had the ball one time and
• 35:42
  I saw him coming and he stepped out of bounds.
• 35:45
  So I said there's. No way.
• 35:47
  No. Gag is stepping out of bounds,
• 35:49
  so I hit him. So I said coach, did you just
• 35:51
  admit to me, the nephew of the guy you're talking about, that
• 35:55
  you cheap? Shouted my uncle along the
• 35:57
  sideline. In 19. 62 and he said, yeah, he
• 36:00
  was a tough kid and I said coach, he's 80.
• 36:07
  Anyway, I tell the story only to show what we always what I
• 36:13
  always preach on here, it's high school.
• 36:16
  Sports are nothing more than an extracurricular activity played
• 36:20
  by high school students that leaves a lasting impression.
• 36:24
  Tony Carsich called my uncle a kid.
• 36:27
  This is, you know, they graduated high school 60 years
• 36:31
  ago. It's really crazy.
• 36:32
  And then anyway, I saw my uncle, I played for him the Tony's
• 36:37
  audio when he admitted the cheap shot of my uncle.
• 36:41
  And my uncle came back with a nice thing that I have to
• 36:43
  actually go to a Saint Joe's game so I can play it for Tony
• 36:46
  in person. But it turns out they both were
• 36:48
  on some All Star team. My uncle had the clippings.
• 36:50
  It's a old picture from a New York newspaper that had Tony
• 36:54
  Carson as part of the all area team in 1962.
• 36:59
  So anyway, that was, I thought pretty cool and just a, a, a
• 37:03
  cool reminder of what high school sports can be and should
• 37:07
  be. So we I think Jimmy, you were
• 37:09
  going to say something and Brian, you were there.
• 37:10
  You guys were both there. But Jimmy, I think you were
• 37:11
  going to say something about Ramsey before I went.
• 37:14
  You know, Ramsey's one of those programs, coach, under the
• 37:17
  tutelage of Coach Bear. I mean, they could, they could
• 37:20
  pile up points with the best of them, and they did the other
• 37:24
  night. I mean, they got up there, 3
• 37:26
  touchdown lead. All of a sudden Malwa, I thought
• 37:29
  Malwa was a pretty good team. Their quarterback, they're
• 37:31
  they're running back. All of a sudden it's a tie game
• 37:35
  and they go for two to tie it. They get it.
• 37:39
  They kick off to Ramsey with about, you know, on the 30
• 37:44
  seconds left and yeah, Ramsey hits a screen pass for about a
• 37:49
  60 yard touchdown and and Ramsey came away with the, you know,
• 37:53
  with the W Very, very entertaining game.
• 37:56
  Yeah, brah, you were there. Your impressions.
• 38:00
  Offensively, I mean, I'm sure the coaches of Ramsey were like,
• 38:04
  oh boy, here we go. I mean, they, they dominated the
• 38:07
  first half. They were up by two scores.
• 38:10
  They get one more score to up 3 scores.
• 38:12
  And then all of a sudden then, you know, the, you know, the
• 38:14
  ship crashed. You know what I mean?
• 38:16
  They had a fumble that they let a onside kick recovery go to
• 38:20
  Mahwa and all of a sudden and then they fumble, they're
• 38:23
  heading in, almost scored up by 1 score.
• 38:25
  They fumble and then Mama turns around and they even converted
• 38:28
  like a fourth and 20 down to the two and then they scored right
• 38:33
  after that and then got the two. It's like Mahwa, it gives those
• 38:36
  kids credit. You know, it shows either, in
• 38:39
  either case, all voting, you know, you go through adversity,
• 38:43
  you're challenged, you're behind, you got to catch up.
• 38:46
  So credit them. It's going to be good for Mahwa.
• 38:48
  They didn't win, but they fought back to get it tied.
• 38:51
  You know, credit to Ramsey, didn't collapse.
• 38:53
  You know, you give up 3 scores and then you staying in there
• 38:57
  and you come out with the win. So for both teams, it's a lot to
• 39:01
  be learned from that. Both kids, Elijah Dixon from
• 39:04
  Mahwah kids, unstoppable receiver out of the backfield,
• 39:09
  running out of the backfield, catching on the backfield.
• 39:11
  They're just lucky he didn't get the ball more.
• 39:13
  I mean, he, I mean, I thought he had more than he ended up with.
• 39:16
  I think he only had 100 of each 100 receiving 100 and catching
• 39:20
  100, receiving 100 running. But he and he kicked.
• 39:24
  He returned the opening kickoff for the score to start the game.
• 39:28
  You know this kid, really good athlete, talented.
• 39:31
  So we were impressed by him. He could play for for anybody.
• 39:35
  And then Randy, not a whole lot of superstars, but the
• 39:39
  quarterback is the lead in the way Jonathan Davis, the guy that
• 39:43
  caught that screen for the game winner.
• 39:45
  He has some wheels. I remember he scored two
• 39:48
  touchdowns in the game. One time just tore down the
• 39:50
  sideline and even on this touchdown for the game, we're
• 39:53
  the same thing. So Ramsey, you're starting to
• 39:55
  see some talent, but definitely they got to play some defense.
• 39:58
  They're going to go play for Chronic and then, you know,
• 40:01
  Westwood's coming up down the road.
• 40:03
  That'll be a big game. And then DuMont, so let's not,
• 40:07
  you know, Dumont's coming up for both Mahwah and Ramsey.
• 40:12
  Ramsey plays them at the very end of the season.
• 40:14
  Mahwah's in the middle, W was coming up.
• 40:16
  So these teams are going to have some fun and we're going to see
• 40:19
  who's who, and you never know where we're going to.
• 40:21
  We have Westwood right now, undefeated 3 and O Stevie Klein
• 40:23
  had a really good game. Couple 100 yards for them over
• 40:26
  Pascat Hill 28 nothing with Stevie Klein.
• 40:30
  Their quarterback is at Bruno Vega doing very well and seems
• 40:34
  to be well oiled machine now starting to come together in
• 40:36
  Westwood now at 3 and O and they're heading in the right
• 40:40
  direction over Westwood. So, you know, it's good to see
• 40:44
  how they're going. I don't want to, you know, I
• 40:47
  don't have anything else. Oh, by the way, Ultra Pan, we
• 40:49
  talked about them earlier. They had their, you know, I
• 40:53
  think you talked about a little bit before.
• 40:54
  The coordinator just won 4114 over the Bergen Field.
• 40:57
  I caught the juniors leading the way there.
• 41:00
  Zach Maselli caught a touchdown, 200, you know, 3 touchdowns, 200
• 41:05
  yards passing. Shane Small, 3 catches, almost
• 41:08
  100 yards and a touchdown. Leo Eder, 3 receptions and a
• 41:12
  score. That's the guy, Leo.
• 41:14
  Out of nowhere, all of a sudden top leading threat in North
• 41:19
  Jersey. Yeah, and then Ryan and then
• 41:21
  Zach's brother Ryan. We talked about programs with
• 41:23
  brothers right there. We got him here too.
• 41:26
  The the older brother Ryan, 7 tackles, 3 for losses.
• 41:30
  So programs, it's not just one guy.
• 41:32
  You need a you need a bunch of guys to make up that team.
• 41:35
  So but we'll be up there. That's where I'm planning to go
• 41:38
  Friday night. So hopefully I get a parking
• 41:40
  spot up there if Lorenzo's OK. Unless I have to park by you,
• 41:43
  Corey, I'll park you're. Welcome, You can we have a we
• 41:49
  have a three deck parking garage here at the world headquarters
• 41:52
  of North Jersey's first time shops.
• 41:54
  No, you can have at your Uber, you can park it right down this
• 41:59
  way. Jimmy, we know an Uber guy who
• 42:01
  could pick him up right here in Northville, right?
• 42:03
  Don't worry. No doubt, no doubt.
• 42:05
  All right. So Jimmy, why don't you start a
• 42:10
  let's do a little NJIC wrap up here before we get going
• 42:14
  tonight, Yeah, you know. I mean, it's got a, you know,
• 42:18
  it's got a start down in Woodridge.
• 42:20
  Coach Carbone taking over for our our good friend Joe Catrona
• 42:25
  with an experienced skill set of players, Rios, the quarterback,
• 42:31
  Scalera, wide receiver, Ike Vino, wide receiver.
• 42:36
  You know, they they came out out of blocks flying.
• 42:39
  They beat up Lodi and Elmwood Park some games which they
• 42:43
  should have won and big game there last Friday night in
• 42:47
  Woodridge. You know, a nice environment if
• 42:50
  you if you want to go watch a game, an interesting environment
• 42:54
  Woodridge when they come walking down the down the hill there
• 43:00
  into the into the entrance of the stadium.
• 43:02
  But they they beat St. Mary's.
• 43:03
  I know St. Mary's is Owen 3 but anytime
• 43:07
  when you're a public school and you could beat St.
• 43:09
  Mary's that that's a good wing and they found the way to win
• 43:13
  again. Yeah, I mean St.
• 43:15
  Mary's. Oh, and three, it's crazy.
• 43:17
  They lost on the crazy. What was it?
• 43:19
  Bride hook and ladder against the hooking.
• 43:21
  Ladder. So they lose that one 2016, they
• 43:25
  lose to, you know, maybe that game kind of beat him twice.
• 43:27
  You don't want to take anything away from Woodridge, but you
• 43:30
  know, Woodridge probably not going to be tested again.
• 43:32
  I don't know until the the playoffs.
• 43:34
  I don't know anything about a Mac and Lata.
• 43:35
  But just looking at the rest of the schedule, I mean, they're in
• 43:38
  pretty good shape to make a pretty deep run here.
• 43:40
  And you know, I was talking to Mark Sinclair today, actually we
• 43:43
  were talking about some other business, but 64 kids in the
• 43:48
  senior class this year at Woodridge High School.
• 43:50
  So you know, for them to be fielding all teams at at least,
• 43:55
  you know, they got a soccer team, they got a volleyball
• 43:56
  team, boy soccer, girls soccer, football.
• 43:59
  I mean, talk about multi sport athletes pretty spread thin.
• 44:03
  So it's nice to see a group like that off to a three and I'll
• 44:06
  start. It's pretty crazy.
• 44:08
  All right, what else in the NJIC?
• 44:09
  Brian, anything you noticed? I noticed.
• 44:12
  So you've got a good game coming up.
• 44:15
  You got Rutherford's going to be playing it up at Waldwick,
• 44:18
  Midland Park, Waldwick Midland Park, pretty solid.
• 44:22
  They had a nice game. They had a sophomore running
• 44:25
  back. He ran for almost 200 yards on
• 44:27
  20 carries last week against Manchester, forward touchdowns.
• 44:32
  That's Luciano Mayor. So he had 11 tackles.
• 44:36
  So Coach Dunn had mentioned to me, Coach Steve Dunn mentioned,
• 44:39
  you know, they had there's they have some weapon because that's
• 44:41
  where they're going to go play. They're going to have to go up
• 44:43
  there. Last year they played there
• 44:45
  while we're close to them. They have to go back up there.
• 44:47
  Usually they alternate. But for some reason the
• 44:50
  scheduling, Rutherford's going to go up there, Rutherford by a
• 44:54
  week. So the Super sophomores have
• 44:55
  time to, you know, you know, two weeks in, got a break and now
• 45:01
  they're going to have a good sized game.
• 45:02
  And not to look too far ahead for Rutherford, a big game for
• 45:06
  them in their division as well is coming up as Glen Rock.
• 45:09
  Last year they were, you know, saw they were in.
• 45:13
  Did they make? Yeah, Glenrock.
• 45:14
  No, he didn't get. A final Glenrock final.
• 45:16
  Yeah, Glenrock final again. Butler right they.
• 45:20
  Played Butler, yeah, So they got pretty far.
• 45:22
  We saw him in the playoffs as well.
• 45:24
  So Glenrock, you know, different year, different team, but so
• 45:28
  it's going to be interesting. You know, Rutherford now go up
• 45:31
  to Waldwick and try to handle that and then go from there to,
• 45:35
  you know, progress. One other team I noticed Becton,
• 45:39
  you know, they had a you know, some early challenges the
• 45:41
  beginning of the year and now they just well, they took care
• 45:43
  of a not not one of the best teams around, but Elmwood Park.
• 45:46
  They beat them 41 nothing. So they look.
• 45:49
  Good. Well, Elmwood Park.
• 45:50
  Elmwood Park's not good. Elmwood Park killed Pal Park
• 45:53
  Leonia. How could they not be good, you
• 45:55
  know? You know, Well, you can figure
• 45:57
  that out. I don't want to say you can't
• 45:58
  compare game to game, but you. I get 4 lbs of PAL Park for the
• 46:07
  26th nothing victory at home against PAL Parkway on you this
• 46:11
  past week, dropping in PAL Parkway Onyx right into O and
• 46:15
  two. Yeah, Corey, you know, something
• 46:17
  about the NICI was just reading a story that they're getting
• 46:20
  ready to kind of come up with these brackets where you move up
• 46:23
  to an upper division. I don't know if they're going to
• 46:24
  do it in football yet, but the NGIC was they're talking about
• 46:27
  doing that. Yeah, no.
• 46:28
  They are doing it, they are doing it in other sports and,
• 46:30
  and it's it again. It's it's, I don't want to get
• 46:33
  into it because it's, it's, it's dopey.
• 46:36
  These we, we're just talking about it.
• 46:38
  They you have a, a, a class, a good senior class or maybe one
• 46:42
  or two classes. So how they're going to group
• 46:45
  you next year is based on how you do this year.
• 46:47
  So if you do well this year with your senior class and they all
• 46:50
  graduate and then you go next year, like it has no bearing on
• 46:54
  next year. I mean the NJIC, all of these
• 46:57
  Group One teams, it's a year by year proposition.
• 47:01
  You can't say are you a good lacrosse and it's going to lead
• 47:05
  to I mean, for for one anecdote, I heard that Becton, which had
• 47:09
  that great, you know, for NJIC girls basketball team last year,
• 47:13
  this year they're going to have trouble fielding A-Team numbers
• 47:17
  wise and they're going to be in play up in the division against
• 47:20
  the teams that were good last year.
• 47:21
  It's like, what are you doing? But what far be it from me?
• 47:25
  So what I you know, I don't know.
• 47:28
  I'm gonna do a lot of. People, they put a lot of time
• 47:30
  into it. They put a lot of time in it.
• 47:32
  Somebody must have felt that this was the best they could do.
• 47:34
  I think they had coaches, athletic directors involved and
• 47:37
  not the name. Names, You know, that's what the
• 47:39
  director was leading, yeah. The powers that be in the NJIC,
• 47:43
  we'll leave it at that. And it's a it's near as I can
• 47:46
  tell it's a small group of two. Anyway, what else?
• 47:51
  Anything else? What are we're we're now that
• 47:53
  you're back on Terra Firma, you're back inside the borders
• 47:57
  of the Garden State. I mean, where you going this
• 47:59
  week? What?
• 47:59
  What's the so we? Look at that, what's a lot of
• 48:01
  ground? Well, you know, I I can take a
• 48:04
  short walk or a short drive because sticking with the NGIC,
• 48:09
  Thursday night the Knights of New Milford will host.
• 48:14
  I could be playing against humor.
• 48:16
  I forgot now. Oh, Seacaucus.
• 48:18
  I'm sorry, Seacaucus. I don't know what you're
• 48:20
  playing. No, no, they're playing
• 48:21
  Seacaucus. So that's what we're looking at
• 48:23
  for Friday or Thursday night. And then I already mentioned
• 48:26
  Friday night is the big game up in world headquarters with all
• 48:30
  the pan hosting Manapo, you know, and both of those are
• 48:33
  looking at PowerPoints. Just talk about that game for a
• 48:35
  second. Those two are the and least
• 48:38
  PowerPoints that just came out. Both of them are #2 in their
• 48:41
  groups, ones in three, ones in four powerhouse teams.
• 48:45
  You know, and we talked about old Japan earlier.
• 48:47
  That should be a great game on Friday night.
• 48:49
  I'm I'd expect a lot of people to be there.
• 48:52
  Should be a good atmosphere, a lot of competition.
• 48:55
  Namapo I haven't seen Ramapo in a travel.
• 48:59
  I haven't seen him play at Old Japan that I can recollect.
• 49:02
  I'd have to think about that. But I only five years ago, I.
• 49:06
  Was when landed, the prima played for whoever was the
• 49:09
  starting quarterback. He came in and had three, yeah.
• 49:13
  And they beat. And they beat Old Japan in Old
• 49:15
  Japan beat. Old Japan, you haven't landed
• 49:17
  the prima. Yeah.
• 49:18
  I mean. It turns out he was a pretty
• 49:19
  good back quarterback, but he was, yeah, right.
• 49:21
  But anyway. Yeah, I haven't seen Ramapo
• 49:25
  travel that much to see, you know, just nothing that matters.
• 49:28
  But, you know, I'm talking about the attendance.
• 49:30
  I don't know. So I don't have a visual on the
• 49:32
  attendance. But hopefully there should be a
• 49:33
  lot of people. The weather should be decent.
• 49:36
  A lot of people from Franklin Lakes, Wyckoff, Oakland should
• 49:39
  be able to get down two O 8 and figure their way across through
• 49:43
  Bergen County to a little. Challenge little, right?
• 49:45
  You know, you don't worry what it's like, especially if it's
• 49:49
  coming early. Is it a 6:00?
• 49:52
  I believe it is, yeah. If it's a. 6:00 start.
• 50:02
  Oh, man, that's like, how many times have I done that in my
• 50:05
  life? And it is the worst.
• 50:06
  Oh, terrible. But hey, that's that's that's
• 50:10
  that's part of the game. I mean, it's suburban New Jersey
• 50:13
  high school football. Jimmy, you doing the same type
• 50:16
  of? Yeah, You know, Saturday you
• 50:19
  have Northern Highlands at Pascack Valley.
• 50:24
  Northern Highlands, you know, really, really good.
• 50:28
  You know, Pascack Valley is really feeling themselves.
• 50:31
  I mean, they, they did pull out a win over Teaneck and and
• 50:35
  again, much improved Teaneck program.
• 50:37
  But Pascack Valley was a sexual champion last year and you know,
• 50:42
  people were ready to give them another one and it and it hasn't
• 50:45
  come easy this year. I mean, you know, they're
• 50:48
  quarterbacks. Sure.
• 50:49
  Outstanding two way player, linebacker committed to Michigan
• 50:54
  State, did not really play quarterback in their loss
• 50:57
  against Westwood. He was more of a Wildcat
• 51:00
  quarterback and a runner. It appears that he suffered some
• 51:04
  kind of knee injury the other night and you know, I don't know
• 51:08
  the extent of it. We all we all hope it's not very
• 51:11
  serious. But if he's not there, I mean
• 51:15
  that that really, that really helps Northern Ireland.
• 51:18
  Yeah, it really does. That's true.
• 51:20
  That's a big one. Northern Highlands is good.
• 51:22
  I mean, Northern Highlands, yeah.
• 51:23
  Very good. Program, you know, very, very
• 51:25
  good program. You know, they they got through
• 51:27
  their first couple games and then they went, oh, they play
• 51:30
  Hackensack I think this week, yeah.
• 51:33
  No, they beat them up. They beat up Hackensack, Yeah.
• 51:37
  You know, last week before. He conventionally, yeah.
• 51:41
  Yeah, You know, they're solid. Jack O'Callaghan, the
• 51:43
  quarterback is solid. There's a lot of talent up
• 51:45
  there. Running back Chase Pasaka,
• 51:47
  Palarko, they're they're solid. It's going to be tough for PV,
• 51:52
  you know, to deal with them, you know, really good Highlanders.
• 51:55
  I think they're, you know, they're cruising those guys up
• 51:57
  there and those coaches to the Salvo father and son team and,
• 52:02
  you know, the quarter up there last week, guys.
• 52:04
  So solid staff up there at Northern Highlands with a good
• 52:07
  program. All right, boys.
• 52:09
  Sounds like we got a lot to watch and a lot to talk talk
• 52:11
  about. We will do it all next week on
• 52:14
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