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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. This is Season 13 Episode 6.
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We'll call it the Uniform Gate edition.
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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 Jimmy Avatable. What's going on, Jim?
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Hey, what's up, Core? As Jimmy Johnson would have said
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30 years ago, how about those Tiger Lions?
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Wow. Oh, Jimmy, you wore my heart
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with that. You want to start right there?
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I mean, before we even introduce the next guy, the other
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illustrious panelist, I mean pal Park slash Leonia, Tiger slash
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Lions 26, Elmwood Park 12. And a game this week on the home
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turf on the Field of Champions where Vince Lombardi once plied
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his trade, the Tiger Lions will host Lodi with a chance for A2
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game-winning streak. We can talk all about it.
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But before we do, let's welcome in the other panelists here
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tonight. He is well.
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He's no longer the head Husky. He used to be the Pope of the
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Cardinal of the Westwood, but we got to move them.
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We got to change the name. We have to change the whole
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order of things because he's now the alpha dog in the pack of
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Bulldogs. He is Brian Carr, and I will
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explain shortly what's going on, brat.
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Hey, Corey, if if I'm one of the alpha dogs, I must be a
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sophomore because they've got some good sophomores down.
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They're doing very well and juniors only with two seniors.
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We were there for senior day. Yeah, football's getting hot and
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getting teams are getting good competitive games and NGIC,
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we'll talk about that and another good game with Old Japan
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and Northern Highlands. So I'll let you go and you could
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go. Where you want to go?
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Corey Well, where I want to go, Brian, is I, you know, I may not
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have been at the game, the Rutherford game this past
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weekend, but I do. There were some people on the
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ground, some boots on the ground.
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And you know, I like to keep a close eye on, you know, that
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like since you won't share your tracking with me, I have to do
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it the old fashioned way, a little gum dude, detective work
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and everything else. But I understand that a member
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of the staff came over to you and and handed you something and
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now you have a matching set. Do you care to explain what is
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now in your possession and who's going to foot the bill for the
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Rutherford Board of Education here or the?
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I guess you know, because it's not.
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You know, I know the principal, we know the principal, you know,
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the vice principal of Rutherford.
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No, no, no. You know, But Rutherford is the
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place, you know, when you look back, some of the coaches, look,
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Vito Campanelli coached at Rutherford, right?
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Johnny, the Palmer coach of Rutherford.
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Eddie's story like it seems to be most people have gone through
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Rutherford, but the Rutherford Bulldogs have been a good team,
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the only team with four NGIC titles.
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So it's not hard to follow and coach Dunn down there.
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Steve Dunn, one of the great guys and I already talked to
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coach tonight about it. If we want to have them on the
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show, we didn't discuss it when we'll have them on the show.
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But yeah, I got to thank the rubber for Bulldogs for Steve
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asked me about a month ago. Steve said, hey, would you like
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a jersey? And I said hey, sure, sure.
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And and so when I was in high school, my number was 75 S
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coach, Coach Dunn was was able to come up with a home and away
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jersey with #75 for Rutherford. And I will probably wear that as
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long as I don't create any conflicts with the other team
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playing in the game. But I said Coach Dunn and the
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Rutherford folks, and they're great guys down there.
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They have a great sports program and what's not to like?
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And the kids are good. It's a program.
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It's another one of those programs like we talked about
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Westwood, Rutherford, I think Rutherford's one of those
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programs of. Course, so I'm, I'm looking here
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at a picture that was committed to the hotline at North Jersey
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sports.com. And anybody who has any tips in
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the future, please hit us up editoreditor@northjerseysports.com.
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I see a white Rutherford jersey number 75 and I see a blue
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Rutherford jersey number 75. I mean, that makes two, bro.
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Which one do you wear first? Probably the blue one, I would
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think. I think if we get to a
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Rutherford game upcoming, they do have a couple home games
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potentially coming up. So maybe we'll get a chance to
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wear the blue one, but maybe I'll have to wear the the wave
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one one night or one day. I'll have to, you know, try it
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on SO. Jimmy.
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We love our shirts, we love our we love our programs.
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So hey, if anybody else wants to donate jerseys, we will welcome
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them too. Love swag.
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We'll travel. Jimmy, don't you feel bad for
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the kid who used to be #75 at Rutherford, who's on the
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sidelines, no shirt on. What's going to happen in the
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playoffs? He's going to be freezing.
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It's like in Married with Children when Al Bundy used to
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tell the stories of when he played it Po po Kai and he he
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scored the four touchdowns. But you know, court, not only is
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Coach Dunn and and his staff great coaches, I'll tell you
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that they they really, really are good people.
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I mean, it was hot on on Saturday before the game.
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Coach Dunn comes over and pregame and says, guys, I got
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plenty of cold water over there and my cooler.
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Just feel free to take it. We have enough.
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Right as the half ends, Coach Dunn goes to dip into the
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cooler. And I'm watching it.
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And there was no water left for him.
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So, yeah. So he was a little demonstrative
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about it. And I, I started chuckling.
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Halftime. As halftime was about to end,
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one of the young assistants, I don't know who it was, was, was
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seen filling up the Kudo cooler with some more water bottles.
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So Coach Dunn came over to us and I said, coach, you know,
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you've made the big time when the young football coaches are
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battling it out who to fill up the water cooler.
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So thanks again, coach. It's always a pleasure.
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And like Brian said, they they do, they do have 20
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underclassmen starters out of the 22 positions.
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So you know, they're they're in for some good days.
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Bring water. That's it.
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I, I would just like to say, and we're going to get into the show
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here, but I, I have no Rutherford T-shirts.
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I have no Rutherford game worn jerseys.
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I've never had a sip of Rutherford bottled water.
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I'm just saying, I mean, something ain't right around
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here, but you know, hey, I'm happy.
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I'm happy. You have a a a, you know, a full
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beautiful. Did they give you a pants to go
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with that? Did it have the thigh pants in
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it and everything? Just the shirt I have to work my
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way up to. That you know.
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I was saying. I said, well, maybe I could
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sneak on the field and play too, right?
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Since I have a jersey, well, I need some pants or two.
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Well, the way eligibility rules are changing, you know, like
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maybe you just. You do get one free transfer, so
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that might be it. Well, he's obviously transferred
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from DuMont to somewhere else. And and and it's interesting
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because Dumont's having a hell of a year or two.
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DuMont having the best year in the history of years in the best
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year in the 26 year history of North Jersey sports.com they're
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five in one. He beat Mawa for the first time
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either ever or vaguely. For the first time. 1990S yeah.
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So yeah, nowhere to be found is is Brian Carr, but that's you
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know, we'll we'll talk about that when we get into the Big N
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conference a little bit later. But let's start off in the NJ IC
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in you know, Jimmy, I know you were there for a part of the
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game, Brian. I mean, kudos to you for
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sticking it out to the end. They should have they should
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have given you a couple of jerseys and and maybe an IV drip
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over there. Pagoda for sitting, staying till
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the end of Pagoda 61, Weehawken 60.
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But that was just one example of the wild weekend that was in the
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NJIC. But go to 6160, a one point
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game. Becton beat Lyndhurst 1413, a
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one point game. New Milford beat Saddlebrook
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1413, a one point game. Woodridge goes on the road and
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beats Park Ridge 25191 score game.
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And as I mentioned earlier, Pal Park handled business against
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Elmwood Park and one that I forgot.
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Butler 43, Hasbrook Heights 36 in another one score game.
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Right. It's nuts in the NJIC.
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Yeah, yeah. You know, we're getting down to
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the wire. Last week as we talked about a
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Corey, there were games between mainly the first or second or
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third team in their division. So this was to shake it out.
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And as you mentioned, Butler beat Hasbrouck Heights.
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Butler will now go to NGIC semi finals.
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Woodridge winning their game against Park Ridge, as you
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mentioned, they're going into it.
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And Rutherford, we didn't talk about too much to that, but we
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did go down there on Saturday. They needed that win over Kresco
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Emerson to help shield their seat in as a semi finalist.
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So you know, and you have a thing for all these other guys
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too. And one thing I got to mention
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about this game, back to the Pagoda game for a second, not to
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get too far away from that. What do you want to start with?
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Pagoda, what do we get back to? Yeah, go back to Pagoda here for
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a second. It is, you know, big scoring
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game. But I guess you got to give
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credit to the kids. They played the game for 3 1/2
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hours. Most of the kids, the better
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players definitely play both ways.
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They throw on every down or in the game.
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And I think maybe by the end of the second overtime, you started
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to see they were getting a little worn out and they were
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able to score touchdowns. But these kids stuck it in
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there. They play tough.
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You know, we often got down by a couple scores but came back.
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It was one of those games back and forth.
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But hey, shout out to Pagoda. Great game.
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The quarterback Jaden Gonzalez, There's two Gonzalez there.
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They're they're both Jaden and both Gonzalez, but spelt
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differently. The other ones, which Jai And
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there's Jayden, the quarterback Jay Jayden Gonzalez, he went for
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400 yards, 200 yards passing, 200 yards rushing, 7 touchdown,
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7 touchdown. And he and he plays defense too,
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by the way, when you're not running around on offense, you
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got to go play. But exciting game, you know,
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back and forth. You know, we we see some games
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like you mentioned, quite close, low scoring in in this
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situation. You know, these guys aren't, you
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know, Pagodas Joe hanging in there for a group 2 playoffs.
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So they have something to play for, but it's pride if they're
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playing the game to compete. And you know, we have the
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interviews, Corey. Well, that's what you'll hear.
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I don't know if we have it in the audio.
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Jaden says we've been waiting. We haven't beat these guys in
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three years. They wanted to beat them.
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You know when you hear the coach, that's another story too.
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Coach was pretty emotional at the game, so why don't we talk?
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To the first. One, yeah.
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And then yeah. And then so, so here's Jaden
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after the game, just there was another interview there.
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Jersey Sports Song was asking questions too.
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So we were all kind of jointly in there.
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So we got Jaden Gonzalez to start again.
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All right, here's Brian Carr with Jaden Gonzalez after the
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game. Here with Jaden Gonzalez,
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quarterback at the game-winning touchdown.
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Yeah, you guys had a big lead. You let them back in the game.
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How did you keep your composure and you stay focused We.
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Just stuck together, everybody as one.
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You know, we practice this every day since last week.
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You know, we had a tough loss, so we just had to battle back
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and rejoin its team. Come the overtime periods, your
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your team look for you to make things happen with your legs.
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You're playing both sides of the ball throughout parts of the
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game. How how do you stay ready in
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those places situations? Just the coaches that we
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practice this, we know they put me at anything like wide
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receiver, slot, quarterback, whatever they want and you know,
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I just practice and do my thing. Give give a little bit of love
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to your teammates. Tell me about what some of those
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guys did to help you guys be in position to win tonight.
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We just stuck together. You know, my son Jay #3 right
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here had a lot of tackles. I had a lot of tackles to Jason,
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you know, we all stuck together. We have family.
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Concern. What does it mean to the team
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this big win here in overtime at home?
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You know, we've been wanting this for a long time.
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My freshman year, we haven't caught a dub against these kids
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for a minute. So we just wanted to get our get
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back for a long time and. All right, Brock, good stuff
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there with Jaden Gonzalez. And now set this one up because
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when you sent in the audio and I was cutting it up earlier this
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evening to use on the show, I was like, is this for real?
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I mean, I, I don't know if I've ever heard.
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Well, you tell us what? What's coming up?
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Right. Well, well, Coach I I never met
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coach before. I saw him on the sideline most
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of the game. James James Case, a new head
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coach, he now and on the staff and it's the reason you'll hear
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me ask him a question about where would he rather be because
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Brian Appleton, the former coach who's now the AD was on the
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sideline and I would go over to him and ask him where would you
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rather be? You know, over here on the
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sideline, you know, call him the play.
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So we kind of I asked that question to Coach Case and the
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coach was very emotional after the win.
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He was very proud of his boys that they were able to stick it
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out win last week. They had a tough game.
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They lost the Park Ridge and they were three, you know, going
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the game and they lost. So he's pretty emotional after
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the game. Court here he is Brian Carr and
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James Case after the game. Coach Brian Carr here in our
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church and sports, good to meet you.
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Congratulations. Thank you.
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Thrilling game. How do you?
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I was talking to Brian on the sideline and I coached.
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I said to him, where would you rather be coaching on the
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sideline or standing all the way on the sideline?
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So what does it feel like to be on the sideline doing the
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calling of the players? I'm so proud.
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Teams good job so. Proud of them.
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Back and forth, a lot of adversity.
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Up, down. They could have gave up.
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Right. Many times.
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They could have gave up. Yeah, they were going to the
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score 2 point conversion. Who won the game?
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You guys stopped them? It's just because last week
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against Park Ridge, we kind of, we kind of self destructed a
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little bit and we didn't. We stayed together and we played
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together, which is what I preach to them all the time, Play
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together, stay together. And that's what we did.
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And it would have pulled it out. Oh, grass.
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Close. Appreciate it.
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Thank you. We got you.
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We got. You thank you.
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Good. Job.
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Great game. Thanks for the entertainment.
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Well, it's tough on you. But yes, yes, I'm I'm glad I
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took my my my blood pressure meds.
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That was crazy. I mean, you want to talk about
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the, the quality, the the purity.
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I should say purity is the word, the purity of high school sports
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at the Group One level. If you couldn't tell it there
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from that interview with James Case, then I don't know what you
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were listening to. Really great stuff, right?
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But before we played that interview, you had mentioned you
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asked Appleton, the former head coach now AD, where he would
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rather be. Did he give you an answer to
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that? I think he would have rather
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been. On the sideline coaching, but
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you know, but with, you know, I'm sure he took that promotion
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because there's some good opportunities monetarily and
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other things for him and career progress.
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But hey, by the way, before we also forget, I got a chance.
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I was there early as I like to get to fields early.
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I hadn't seen the new field properly and so I took a nice
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walk to have a nice path that circles the whole new facility,
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the 2 baseball field, softball, baseball and the football field,
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a really beautiful place down there.
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Now. The fields are amazing, both the
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the regular there baseball field, softball is is grass and
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the football field is turf. Just a beautiful setting now.
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And also by the way, sunset, nice sunset for anybody who's
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looking to the West as I happen to be on the pagoda sideline at
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the time and nice sunset. So a great location.
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One of the things I've mentioned Jimmy didn't mention, I'll
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mention is we had a former New York Giant there.
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Armani Toomer from the Giants was a, he was a leading receiver
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for the Giants, I think in a career.
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Armani was there supporting his son.
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He's on the staff. His son is Armani Toomer junior,
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who is a wide receiver in DB. So it's great seeing him.
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I know Jimmy talked to him. We talked to him.
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Pat Rice was there and really nice guy.
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Armani. He's a great guy and good to see
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him supporting. He's good to have the Giants
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supporting local New Jersey high school football court.
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Did you give? Did he give you a Giants jersey?
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Well, we, we don't know him well enough yet, you know, takes a
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little while before we just start asking for giant jerseys.
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You do have his phone number, I imagine you asked for them
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digits, right? Right.
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No, no, I was. I left.
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We, we, Corey, we're used to. We're around a lot of
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celebrities, you know, So, you know, Coach Del Caso, how many
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people are we around? We used to see Otis Anderson was
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out of a lot of games. Phil Simms, Maddie Simms.
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So, you know, Jimmy Avatable, Mike Quick, you know, come on.
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Yeah, there's a lot of Anthony swords.
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Jimmy, did you have any interaction with Imani tumor?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I mean, we, he was on the as, as Brian mentioned, he's one of the
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assistant coaches that we often and for those of you who don't
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don't know, Imani played for that legendary program in
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California, De La Salle. I mean, and at one point I as
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they were going back and forth in the game.
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And as Brian mentioned, I mean, I'm sure a lot of the scoring
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could be, could, can be contributed to the both of these
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teams, you know, with limited numbers going both ways, a lot
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of tackles missed. I and I went up to money right
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before half and said, Hey, coach, I said, did this remind
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you of the great De La Salle teams that you played on?
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And he said, and he started chuckling.
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He said, not for one second, but you know, you know, going into
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De La Salle, we, you know, we were talking, we looked it up.
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His coach at the Bob LaSalle, at De La Salle.
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I guess he was the head coach there from almost 40 years, his
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career record. Listen to this Corey. 399 wins,
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25 losses and three thighs. And if we talk to him, I don't
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know if he's still with us. I hope so.
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But if we talk to him, he would not remember any of the 399
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wins. He could probably go through
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play by play each of the 25 losses and probably remembers a
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couple of plays from the ties. But.
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Yeah, You know, it's funny. It's funny, Corey.
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Two of those 25 losses are to Don Bosco.
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That is crazy when you think about it.
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But you know what? I we're here, we're we're we're
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sitting here laughing about this.
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But you know, last week you guys were both at Bosco Bergen, which
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is, you know, obviously, especially after that stat
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Jimmy. I mean, that's big time national
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program high school football and it sounds like to me.
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Now, this is just as a, you know, a bystander who's listened
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to every word the two of you have said on this show for the
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last 13 years and running. It sounds like you had more fun
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there at at Pagoda. We all could, or at least as
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much as well. Pagoda, we all.
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I'll put it to you this way. There was a lot more room on the
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sidelines. They didn't have quite the
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amount of people on the sidelines, but you know, you got
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to, you know, there are some of the elitist Corey, the parochial
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fans or the big public school fans that say, Oh, you know,
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it's Group 1 football or it's the Ivy League or it's, you
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know, what football is football and, and Brian hit it on the
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head. Those kids that might as well
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have been the Super Bowl to both of those teams.
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They played hard. I mean, what they lack in and
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obviously size or, or, or talent they make up with desire in
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their heart. And it it, it was fun to be
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there. You mentioned Brian Feigl field,
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you know, was one of the most primitive.
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Corey, you've been there dozens of times.
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Was one of the most primitive football fields, baseball
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complex down there right on the Hackensack River.
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Whenever it rained, you would had the former AD Brad Derupo
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out there with the cat litter throwing it down on the field.
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They did a beautiful job and they they should be
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congratulated on it. And it was AI left with probably
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3 minutes left in the third quarter, had to do something.
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But the the rest of the crew was there through I think two or
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three overtimes, which is which is crazy.
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Well, Brian said 3 1/2 hours and then Brian, you stayed even to
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get the, to get the interview. He was awesome and I love them
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and I, I, you know, again, we're just having some fun here.
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But when you hear the coach crying over a game between two,
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you know, if you weren't there, you know, it it not to say it's
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not memorable. It's it's my overreaching point
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with high school sports. I mean, I remember games from
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when I played on horrible Palisades Park High School
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basketball teams. I go through it and to me, when
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you think about it, like it seemed like the Super Bowl, you
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know, like when we went into North Arlington and beat North
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Arlington on a buzzer beater. I don't know, maybe it that made
22:13
us maybe 3 and 12 on the season. But as far as I'm concerned,
22:16
that's the greatest game ever played, you know, and these
22:19
these kids are the are the same. They're going to have the same
22:22
type of memories forever. They will carry with them.
22:24
Do you remember 3 overtime 6160 Pagoda over Weehawken?
22:29
And the Weehawken kids will take it with them too.
22:30
And after a couple, you know, after a little bit of
22:33
separation, the loss won't even hurt.
22:34
And they'll just have a great memory of playing in one of the
22:37
probably what's going to be the craziest organized sports game
22:41
they ever play in their lives. So kudos to both of you for
22:45
getting there. Bride.
22:45
Great job on those interviews. I loved it.
22:47
So let's let's do a little bit more from the NJIC because as
22:52
you mentioned, Brian, I think so are the 14 set now?
22:55
I mean, it's it's. You know, So what has to be done
22:58
this week? Becton is playing Garfield and
23:02
if Garfield wins a three-way tie, I'm not sure how it would
23:05
break out because Becton beat Lyndhurst last week and now
23:12
Becton has to play Garfield. I I'm not sure how it would work
23:15
out. So it's one of those three teams
23:17
will end up, you know, if if Becton wins, they're in, they'll
23:20
play Butler. You know, that's what it looks
23:24
like right now or, or one of the other two of Garfield wins.
23:27
And so so but anyway, Rutherford is and Woodridge, both
23:33
undefeated 6 and O Woodridge. Let me just finish a little bit
23:37
on the game at Rutherford. By the way, we keep talking
23:40
about these young guys and it's the young guys are really
23:43
stepping up. They only have two seniors.
23:45
I think Jimmy mentioned before. I think it's 22 or so juniors
23:49
and sophomores, but the we call them the Super Johnny Joya,
23:55
Quinn Weber, Will Holman. I saw them in 8th grade when
23:59
they were in rec. So I kind of been able to follow
24:02
these kids courtesy of Coach Dunn, by the way, Steve Dunn
24:07
and, and obviously these two, these three kids shine for them.
24:09
Johnny Julia, leading runner on the team.
24:12
The leading receiver is Will Holman.
24:14
The second leading receiver is Quinn Weber and then you go over
24:17
and you look at defense, it's the same thing.
24:19
It's the same thing. Also credit too to their
24:21
quarterback, Myles Balkin. Miles came in as a freshman a
24:25
couple of years ago when Chris Joy got hurt, won and NJIC
24:30
championship as a freshman leading the team.
24:33
So this is a program down there. That's why we like these guys
24:37
down there. It's not, you know, it's coach,
24:39
obviously, it's a principal and vice principal, you name it down
24:43
there. And COVID didn't mention Dave
24:45
Fraser. He was also at the game as well.
24:47
But you know, congratulations the, you know, the young kids
24:50
and probably Coach John would say the same thing.
24:53
They started, they were young early in the year.
24:56
They're they're probably maturing.
24:57
One of the things give them credit last week they played a
24:59
good Glen Rock team. They only won three.
25:01
Nothing. They stepped it up.
25:03
I think Shawn Ryan made a point to get the offense going and
25:07
they really did that on Saturday against Cresskill, quarterback
25:10
Miles Ballskin had 19 for 27263 yards.
25:14
The week before I think he maybe had two or three, you know,
25:17
completion so and he had two touchdowns.
25:20
Hey, by the way too, I mentioned the Super soft Johnny Julia
25:23
Jimmy may remember too. They ran it was a fourth down
25:26
play at the goal line. They ran a jump ass with Johnny
25:30
Julia as a Wildcat pretty short player, not a tall kid back
25:34
behind center gets the snap. He throws it over the line to
25:38
the tallest kid on the team. Quinn Weber is about 6 foot 5.
25:41
Quinn was able to make the catch.
25:43
So sophomore to sophomore, congratulations Rutherford and
25:47
we look forward to seeing them against a really good Woodridge
25:49
team. Woodridge, who had a little bit
25:52
of a challenge to win out for themselves.
25:55
They were had a tough game. Now I forget all the details,
25:59
but I know they had a tough game and they had to come back, come
26:01
from behind. They were down.
26:04
I think they're down at halftime or 13, seven and then came back
26:08
in the second-half. And I mean, Miles Simmons had
26:11
two touchdowns in the third quarter and again in the fourth
26:14
because they trailed 136A half. So congratulations.
26:19
That's the kind of stuff you got to do.
26:20
I think in the playoffs you're going to have to be able to come
26:23
from behind when you are down when you have to do it because
26:28
that's what it's going to take. It's you're going to get behind
26:30
against the team. So Woodbridge was able to get
26:33
that. So now they're up to six and O.
26:35
The last time they were six and O was three years ago when they
26:38
made the playoffs as well under coach Joey Catrona, who was
26:42
there and now off again. So congratulations to them doing
26:46
very well. And hey, the other game that was
26:48
really hot, the Beck and Lindhurst.
26:49
We mentioned that Beckton was able to get the lead and they're
26:54
up by a point. Lindhurst was come came down,
26:56
was able to score touchdown to get within one, but when for two
27:00
and missed it, they just missed the two point conversion.
27:03
So that could have easily gone in literacy way.
27:05
But congratulation to Becton on their win.
27:08
Now they have an opportunity to get into the NGSC again
27:12
playoffs. They won it in two thousand
27:15
22/20/2020 when COVID. So that's kind of a wrap.
27:20
I don't know if Jimmy could talk about Butler and Heights.
27:22
Maybe. Right, Jimmy?
27:23
Yeah. Jimmy Well, I want to ask
27:24
Jimmy's thoughts on Woodridge because he still has pretty, you
27:27
know, good connections to the program.
27:30
And then also New Milford. Saddlebrook because I know you
27:33
and your Joey Catrona are close and that one had a hurt.
27:37
But Saddlebrook, you know, despite a 1413 loss, making
27:40
strides. Yeah, I mean you mentioned
27:43
Saddlebrook coach Catrona, who had a a real say I I would
27:47
consider a very successful run for four years at Woodridge.
27:51
Wood coach doing a great job at Woodridge.
27:53
They have some very good skilled players that have returned their
27:57
quarterback Rios, Nick Scalera, I to vino, Melvin Zamolata.
28:04
I mean, they have some very, very good skilled kids there and
28:08
coaches are putting them in position to succeed.
28:11
You know, them against Rutherford becomes a very, very
28:14
interesting game in my eyes next Friday night.
28:18
I know Coach Mark Sinclair has to be excited.
28:22
The whole town is excited. They're undefeated.
28:25
But I, you know, they're, they're heavy Work is coming in
28:28
the next couple of weeks for Saddlebrook.
28:31
You know, coach Catrona lives in Saddlebrook.
28:35
His two his two sons play in the Junior Football League.
28:38
I really believe Corey, that would have been the only job he
28:42
would have taken when he stepped down.
28:44
And Woodridge, I know is is for his wife, wanted him to spend
28:48
more time with the children. Children, you know, they're in
28:51
Saddlebrook now. OK, I got an idea.
28:55
I'll coach Saddlebrook. That's right.
28:58
So you know, it's been tough. I mean, they've they've played
29:01
in my opinion, the toughest schedule in the NJIC.
29:05
I think their combined record, win and loss record of the teams
29:09
they've played, Corey is a is a pretty impressive 27 and 9.
29:15
Yeah, that's. Crazy, you know, kid, if any
29:18
competitive game opening day, they're five and one, but go to,
29:21
as we've mentioned, Butler's undefeated heights is four and
29:25
two and then Milford's four and two.
29:27
So they played a they played a tough schedule.
29:29
They played coach Straub and and Milford the other day very
29:34
competitively. They scored to make it 1413.
29:37
Unfortunately, they had an extra point block.
29:40
They, you know, they fall the O and six, but I I really believe
29:44
that better times are ahead. Hopefully they can get a couple
29:47
of consolation games that they will have a chance to win and
29:51
it'll set the table for the future.
29:53
Not if they play the Tiger Lions.
29:56
That's, well, they they actually gained scrimmage to the Tiger
29:59
Lions. Oh yeah, I don't even want.
30:02
The outcome, oh, it was, it was if I were you.
30:04
Listen, not that scrimmage it mean anything, but it was.
30:07
It was 25, nothing. Saddle Brook at the half.
30:10
Yeah, but Powell Park wasn't showing anything.
30:12
It was the pre. No, no they weren't, and
30:18
unfortunately they haven't showed much for the most of the
30:22
season. Hey, Jimmy, I'll do the pal park
30:25
jokes around here, pal. All right?
30:26
We're like talking about Lodi. Yeah, let's talk about the Rams.
30:31
Oh. My God, pal Park.
30:33
I mean, what are we betting for this week?
30:35
We got it for something where? Where's the good?
30:37
Where's the good Italian deli in Lodi?
30:39
You got you got up on, you got up on Harrison Ave., you've got
30:44
Vieta Mia. Vieta, Mia.
30:47
One of the great Italian delis, they make their own macaroni
30:53
sausage bread. The sausage bread is incredible.
30:55
So maybe we'll put something on the on the line.
30:59
But you know, we, we, we joke around, you know, obviously I
31:02
live in Lodi. I, I know a lot of the people
31:05
involved and you know, they, they've gone through a tough
31:10
patch here, you know, for 25 years on the Pato Rico, they had
31:13
a very, very successful program. And it's just, you know, it's,
31:18
it's been tough to get it jump started the last four or five
31:21
years. All right, so the bet is if Pal
31:25
Park wins, I get one of those Vitamia sandwiches of your
31:28
choice. If Lodi wins, you get a Amato,
31:34
the Italian deli across the street from my house.
31:38
Amato's up here in Northville, which bakes their own bread and
31:40
distributes it throughout North Jersey.
31:42
But this is the home base of a motto, and you're getting an
31:45
Italian Job from a motto. OK, so there's the bet.
31:49
You got it. Let's.
31:50
Go, let's go, Tiger Lions. Oh my God, I can't believe I
31:55
just bet my hard earned money on the balloting football program.
32:00
But you know, that's where we are.
32:02
Things are getting giddy on season 13 episode 6.
32:05
All right, let's move over to the Big N Conference.
32:09
And again, all kidding aside, I mean, that's a huge win for the
32:14
DuMont Huskies. You know, on the road at Mahwa,
32:19
Mahwa has played everybody that they've played at least tough
32:21
this year. And DuMont, you know, you had
32:23
the old when you look back at it now and you see the, you know,
32:28
the the schedule, they play early.
32:29
No one knew it before the season started.
32:32
And you could say, oh, you know, maybe these teams weren't as
32:34
good as maybe we thought, But and then they lose to Westwood
32:36
and you could say, oh, same old DuMont.
32:38
They can't win a big one. Well, Mahwa was a big one, Bry,
32:41
I you know, a huge game. There's a big difference between
32:45
4:00 and 2:00 and five in one with some momentum off a road
32:49
win against a program like Mahwah.
32:51
So you're in town, you walk around.
32:55
I mean, were you up late after the game with did the fire
32:58
trucks lead them back into town or what's the mood in in DuMont?
33:02
Or have you not noticed anything in the barbershop?
33:06
Now, Corey, we we happen to have a double header.
33:09
We picked up the second-half of Westwood after we were at up in
33:14
Allendale. So we weren't able to get back.
33:18
We weren't able to get back and get any kind of a feeling of the
33:22
success. But I did see a.
33:24
Video put out by the. Athletic director Joe Sottera
33:28
that the. Boys were very excited.
33:30
They won that game up there in Mahwah, which has not not
33:33
verified, but we think it's the first time DuMont has beat
33:37
Mahwah. And it's, I know going back and
33:39
I'll mention my son played 2006 up there in a playoff game and
33:45
DuMont lost that game. But they don't they hadn't
33:47
played Mahwahs at a regular schedule.
33:50
So, but it's been a while. And yeah, I think definitely
33:53
that was a game we saw Mahwah play.
33:55
Ramsey played them very tough, very competitive.
33:58
And we're behind and we're able to come back and try the game
34:01
against a good Ramsey team. So, you know, going into this
34:04
game, DuMont, you know, they were able to get the lead, how
34:08
to fight back and get a touchdown to kind of come back
34:11
and get the win. So, you know, you're going to
34:13
have to play. We talked about.
34:14
I just was saying that, right? You got to come back in the
34:16
second-half and be able to score because you may get behind.
34:19
So, yeah, congratulations to Huskies.
34:23
I won't look too far ahead, but they do have a game up at Ramsey
34:27
in a couple weeks that's against Ramsey.
34:29
So we'll see more where they're at there and that's a big win.
34:33
And that'll make a big difference when it comes to
34:35
PowerPoints and where they sit in the seating in their group
34:39
because right now they're at a good spot in the group and they
34:44
could definitely use that game there right now at 8 and Ramsey
34:47
is below them at 10. So but that would definitely
34:50
help them boost their PowerPoints and get them in a
34:53
high, you know, more likely have a home game and or two in the
34:57
playoffs. So congratulations to Huskies.
35:00
I didn't I didn't expect this. I I thought maybe you know, like
35:03
6 and three this year, but now we're on roll.
35:06
Maybe you were talking whatever, 8-9.
35:09
We'll see court. Yeah, but you know what I was
35:12
just thinking as I'm looking at their schedule pulled up in
35:14
front of me too. Paramus this week is, you know,
35:16
you're coming off the high of all highs and you have Paramus
35:20
at home and I I've seen Paramus and their record does not show
35:23
it. But you talk about young kids.
35:25
I mean, Paramus's best skill kids are all young.
35:27
So as you were saying before with Rutherford, you know, maybe
35:31
I, I think Paramus is a live dog this week because right, you
35:35
know, DuMont off a high Paramus improving, even if the results
35:40
and the scores don't show it. And they have a lot of young
35:44
kids in Paramus, actually. So I I think, you know, it could
35:48
be a dangerous spot. Of course, I could be wrong and
35:50
DuMont could win by 30. But, you know, it'll be
35:53
interesting to see how head coach Mike Farrington can just
35:57
keep his kids on an even keel and, you know, now win a game
36:00
that they're supposed to win, which is, you know, almost kind
36:03
of a new role for DuMont. And also, you know, then the
36:05
week after they play at Pascat Kills.
36:08
Just want to mention quickly that Pascat Kills picked up
36:11
their first win of the season this past week.
36:14
And they played a Saturday afternoon game on homecoming
36:17
against Dwight Morrow. They won 2914.
36:21
So that's their first win of the season.
36:23
But you know, again, Pascack Hills has had some injury and
36:28
illness problems all season long.
36:31
They're I give them credit for not being in the Ivy League when
36:35
they could be or, you know, could at least petition to do
36:38
so. And they had a tough schedule,
36:40
at least as tough a schedule as you can have at that level.
36:43
You know, they played Mawa Westwood, Teaneck at Ramsey and
36:48
then they just hosted Dwight Morrow.
36:49
And the reason why I'm bringing up the homecoming everything
36:52
else because I was talking to Steve Papa, the athletic
36:54
director, just today and at the homecoming game on Saturday,
36:58
they're just starting up the Pascal Kills High School
37:00
Athletic Hall of Fame. So they announced the first pass
37:03
and then the dinner will be in. I forgot what he said.
37:06
Either March or May 1 of the end months.
37:09
So pretty cool for Pascack Hills.
37:11
It was it was wild. I was on campus on Saturday for
37:15
some other business and it was cracked.
37:18
There was like, no, I'm like, this is a Saturday afternoon in
37:20
Montville. There was a car wash going on.
37:22
The band was doing something. There was a JV volleyball
37:25
tournament. You had homecoming up at the top
37:27
of the hill. So it it was a real community
37:30
day at Pascack Hills and they got a win.
37:32
And I'm a big Evan Lampert fan, as I've mentioned in the past.
37:35
So good win for the Broncos. And I don't know we can move on
37:40
from there. All right, Jimmy, looking around
37:43
the the big north or the Super Football Conference.
37:47
And we talked about it last week at the end of the show.
37:50
If we had to name the three best public score, the five best
37:54
public school teams, we came up with Old Japan and we'll go into
37:57
that game. We came up with Ramapo and boy,
38:00
did they bounce back big after their first loss of the season.
38:03
And we said Northern Highlands, which, you know, had a tough
38:06
loss against Old Japan, which seems to be doing it to
38:09
everybody, And then four and five, we said, you know, maybe
38:12
it's Wayne Hills, maybe it's Wayne Valley.
38:14
Well, we found out if those are the two teams fighting for it,
38:16
we know who the number four spot belongs to now.
38:21
Yeah, I mean, you know, you always, you always get a battle
38:24
when you play Wayne Hills and and Wayne Valley, the whole town
38:28
comes out. It's usually a full house.
38:30
And it was again on Friday night.
38:33
Wayne Hills was up I believe 10 points at half time and it was a
38:38
back and forth affair. I think it came down Corey to a
38:42
field goal attempt and it was blocked.
38:47
I I believe Wayne Hills was going for to win and got caught
38:52
when the League of Motion penalty backed them up five
38:55
yards. They went for the field goal and
38:59
it was blocked. So congratulations to the
39:02
Indians. Yeah, really crazy.
39:05
And by the way. By.
39:07
The way Wayne Valley, their only loss to one loss, Northern
39:11
Highlands, you know, so they they've been very competitive in
39:14
their games and with only one loss.
39:16
And also, by the way, who do they play this week?
39:20
They're at Ramapo. They.
39:21
Play. Ramapo play Ramapo.
39:23
Yeah. So it's going to be.
39:25
Let's do the triangle. Let's do the old Japan Ramapo
39:29
Highlands triangle. I know you know the game.
39:32
The North Jersey sports.com well represented on Friday night in
39:36
Allendale, JC Baumuller wrote a story which is still up there on
39:40
North Jersey sports.com and right Ulta pen I.
39:45
We talk about it every week. We've talked about it every week
39:48
for the last however many years and it's crazy that you know,
39:52
it's close to home For me, when I picked Northvale as a place to
39:56
live, it was not because of the football program or Northern
39:59
Valley Regional High School at Ulta Penn.
40:00
But I am lucky to have had a front row seat for this last 25
40:04
years of Ulta Penn football because it really is amazing
40:08
when you talk about the numbers, you know when you guys did the.
40:12
The game last weekend, you gave us the information about they
40:16
were banged up on the offensive line.
40:17
So they put a couple of freshmen.
40:18
They put a couple of freshmen in or or, you know, inexperienced
40:21
players. I remember if they were all
40:22
freshmen, but whatever it was and they, you know, beat round
40:26
PO, which is, you know, a a top ten public school in the state.
40:29
Forget the county. So Ultapan does it again.
40:32
I'm going to switch to you, Jimmy, because I know you said
40:34
before that the way Highlands came out in that game and you
40:37
look like, oh, well, finally, maybe Ultapan has met its match.
40:40
And then what happened? Well, you, you mentioned that, I
40:43
mean, Northern Highlands, it's their biggest offense is the
40:47
defensive line that I can remember a very big physical
40:51
team. They got the ball first drive,
40:53
drove the ball down the field consistently 7 and 8 yard runs.
40:58
And and you said to yourself, OK, they, they outsize Old
41:02
Japan, maybe it's going to be this type of game.
41:05
Old Japan held them, did not score their possession and
41:11
Northern Highlands scored on a big run to take a 7 nothing
41:14
lead. And from that point on, Corey,
41:17
you know, I, I, I can't say enough how much I respect the
41:23
coaching staff at old Japan coached on coach Klaus.
41:27
And obviously there are many more than just those two, but
41:30
they, they always seem to have a common effect on those kids.
41:35
They're always able to bring them back.
41:37
And they did. And, and from then on, I mean,
41:40
they really, really, it was a it was a knock em sock em game.
41:44
There's no question about it. You know, old Japan's
41:47
quarterback made an outstanding play on 1/4 down.
41:50
He was he was is being sacked that they were holding.
41:53
One kid was holding on to his leg as as he was going down and
41:57
and he flicked one for about 30 yards into the back of the end
42:01
zone that was caught. Our buddy missed the small
42:05
caught a a touchdown pass to take the you know, and they took
42:09
a 14-7 lead and and really had to dig in defensively because
42:14
Northern Islands drove the ball some 80 yards down into the
42:17
inside the 10 yard line and Old Japan made the plays when they
42:22
had to. They always seem to be in the
42:24
right spot. It doesn't matter who it is, as
42:26
as you mentioned, and not, you know, you, you look at them
42:29
who's in a walking boot, who's, you know, just in New Jersey and
42:34
you kind of, you know, you realize when you when you've
42:36
coached Corey, you realize it's not, it's not as easy as they
42:41
make it seem. I mean, as and and and it looks
42:44
easy for old Japan. Obviously there's a lot of hard
42:47
work put into it and a lot of sweat and tears.
42:51
But you know, Northern Highlands is a team that could you know,
42:54
it still has to be considered one of their one of the
42:58
favorites in their section. And Old Japan seems to be the
43:03
favorite in their section. Yes, it's it's getting like we
43:07
talk about big boy football and the parochials.
43:09
It's getting that way in the elite publics where you know,
43:14
it's great these regular season wins, but you know it it's about
43:19
anybody can come back and beat anybody else.
43:21
Not that Old Japan and and Northern Highlands are in the
43:24
same bracket, but Ramapo and Northern Highlands are and they
43:27
still have a game to play against each other.
43:29
You know, so it's like this is just the the appetizer for
43:33
what's going to come next and you know, the playoffs.
43:36
So crazy, right? Your thoughts on on Old Japan or
43:39
you want to go somewhere else? Yeah, No, no, stay with there
43:42
for a second. Two points that I'll mention.
43:44
You mentioned a number of players out.
43:46
That's one of the things that I was looking at when I got there.
43:49
And I, I checked off guys that were out.
43:52
I counted 8 kids that there could have been more.
43:55
They were at least 8. And we're talking about starters
43:57
too. Is it Devin Rodani?
44:00
I'm not sure how to say his last name.
44:01
Devin, he made he made a big play maybe against Ramapo.
44:06
He was the initial contact to stop Grusher near the goal line.
44:10
He was out, but they had eight guys out.
44:13
So you go in there and you're like, wow, they got eight guys
44:15
out. How are they going to possibly
44:17
win this game? I I just kind of you know, you
44:20
think with all these guys, but you know, give him credit.
44:22
Coach keeps them ready next man up.
44:26
One other point I think is a key point.
44:28
They came out in the second-half and I had asked this to Lorenzo
44:31
Barada AD last year at the championship game last year at
44:35
where we had Rutgers. I guess I said, OK, what do you
44:38
think is going to happen? He said, I'll let you know after
44:40
the first try out of the first half, first quarter, then same
44:43
thing at halftime. So what do they do this week?
44:46
Come out in the second-half, they drive and they score.
44:50
Set the tone for the second-half, you know, 14-7 from
44:54
there. They were in, it seemed like
44:56
they were in charge, you know, and Northern Highlands moved the
44:58
ball but just couldn't finish, had a chance to finish even at
45:02
halftime. Remember, it was kind of a weird
45:04
situation. They were really they were to
45:06
kick a field goal and they ran the clock down and then they
45:09
went for the field. They didn't go to the field
45:11
goal. They went for a touchdown and
45:12
didn't convert. But you know, again chances that
45:16
they didn't convert. Kind of reminiscence of the
45:19
game. We saw Bergen Bosco where you
45:22
know, Bosco didn't have as much offense as Bergen but won the
45:26
game. Same thing here.
45:27
I think Northern Highlands, you know, had about 250 yards total
45:32
or 300 result of PM, maybe had less than 200.
45:35
So it's not always about how many yards you get, but
45:38
converting when you have that opportunity.
45:40
So thank you, Coach Burrata, for your input.
45:43
I'll I keep that in the back of my mind.
45:45
And that's an old Japan thing. If that drive, first drive in
45:50
the first half, first drive in the second-half.
45:51
And they seem to work for them, if they get that drive of
45:54
course. No doubt about it.
45:57
All right. I mean, what else from the
45:59
again, I'd like to come up with these, you know, maybe some
46:03
things that fall between the cracks.
46:04
I just wanted to we should mention, you know, we talk about
46:08
the urban schools struggling, you know, the east side and
46:12
Kennedy in Patterson. And you know, they have had
46:17
they've been picked apart by some of the big boys and a team
46:19
that has been, you know, pretty much non consequential since the
46:24
days of iron Head Hayward. But I mean, we got to just at
46:28
least pay a little bit of attention to Passaic.
46:33
They even their record at 3:00 and 3:00 this year.
46:36
You know, they beat East Side 1614.
46:40
That was coming after a week after a 2 point win over Teaneck
46:44
on the road. So they're now three and three
46:46
on the season. And every game they've played
46:48
this year has been close. They lost to Hackensack by 9.
46:51
They lost to Franklin by 6. They beat Clifton by 1 score,
46:56
lost to Nutley by a score. And now back-to-back two point
46:59
wins. So it's Mark Dupree is the head
47:03
coach there. They are three and three.
47:04
And Jimmy, you know, you got to at least give them a little bit
47:07
of love because they're hanging in there and, you know, not
47:11
exactly a hotbed of football anymore in Passaic and they're
47:15
battling. Yeah, you, you know, you
47:17
mentioned Passaic, you know, when we grew up, Corey, in the,
47:20
in the, in the late 70s into mid to late 80s, they were a
47:25
dominant football program with Iron and Hayward, obviously the,
47:30
the all American running back. They had multiple Allstate
47:33
athletes and, and it's nice they, you know, Boverini State,
47:37
Bo Boverini Stadium there, they've redone it.
47:41
It looks fabulous. And you know, the town has
47:44
changed. It's it's become more of a
47:46
Spanish town, Passaic than previously.
47:49
And you know, good for them. I mean, you know, it's like you
47:54
mentioned the inner city football seems to be, you know,
47:59
struggling unless you're in Newark where you can just, you
48:03
know, yeah, open enrollment. You could, you know, you that's
48:07
why you have your Oquaics. That's why, you know, you have
48:11
your Shabazzas right now in football because they're they're
48:14
cherry picking all the kids you mentioned.
48:17
I mentioned Moquaic Westwood with a nice win over Waquaic
48:22
Oquaid coming off that the the week before against Newark
48:26
Westside Corey where they had a, you know, an all out brawl where
48:29
the game had to be, had to be had to be stopped and and you
48:34
know, in the second-half. And you know what Quake had, I
48:37
believe 3 or 4 kids thrown out of the game, which means they
48:41
cannot participate in the playoffs.
48:44
They would have been one of the favorites obviously in their
48:47
section. But you know, Westwood found the
48:49
way. Stevie Klein, as Brian
48:52
mentioned, we got there late in the third quarter.
48:55
They were up, I believe, 25 to 16, Brian.
49:00
Yeah, 2525122512. And, and for the fourth quarter,
49:06
I think both teams scored a couple touchdowns.
49:08
Westwood got out of there with a win, a nice win.
49:11
But when you watch for quiet Corey, you can you can see the
49:14
talent. I mean, there's no, there's no
49:17
question. Yep.
49:19
Well, right. You were there at Westwood too.
49:21
Yeah, And you got you got us some sound.
49:23
So say what you want to say about the Westwood victory and
49:25
then set up the interview you got for us.
49:28
Sure. You know, I got to give a shout
49:31
out again. We talk about some injuries this
49:32
year. It's been a popular topic.
49:35
I'm not sure what their starting quarterbacks injury was, but he
49:38
came out of the game early on, threw a touchdown, was 5 for six
49:43
Bruno Vega and came out. But they Anthony Capparelli was
49:48
able to commit. He went eight for 996 yards, 2
49:51
touchdowns. One of those touchdowns to our
49:56
audio man, Audio man of the week, Stephen Klein.
49:58
Stephen Klein, for those who don't know, is senior captain
50:02
and it was on the state championship team two years ago.
50:05
His brother was on the team as well, Joey Klein.
50:08
So, but Stephen's a good kid, really good kid.
50:11
Going to Boston College to play football next year.
50:14
Corey. All right, well, here is Brian
50:17
Carr with Stevie Klein after the game.
50:21
Right car here in North Jersey sports and in Westwood or
50:24
Washington Township after Westwood 3718V over we quake.
50:31
We're trying to get a player too.
50:33
Touch up 3. How come he got 4?
50:37
I'm just getting great. Want to talk about the game
50:43
here? I'm here with Stevie Klein,
50:45
senior captain, running back, D back, linebacker, whatever he
50:50
needs. Talk about the game tonight,
50:52
Steve. It's a great win.
50:53
It was the last mega season, home game, press season, and I
50:56
just want to win like this on the feet at home.
50:57
So far this year it's been great.
50:59
And now we're talking Mahwah. Mahwah talk about this game some
51:02
more. A lot of talent here, a lot of
51:04
speed, a lot of size. What you guys have to do to
51:08
toughen it out, get through that?
51:10
I think it's great seeing a team like this, you know, or coach
51:12
had a great game plan for them on both sides of the ball.
51:15
And you know, there's a lot of talent that's not, like you
51:17
said, just to really handle them all game and to come out with
51:21
the victory means lots. Of us talk about some of your
51:23
teammates. Obviously your quarterback went
51:25
down, right? Bruno Vega went down.
51:27
Talk about some of the other guys, how to step up and carry
51:30
the team. Yeah, so Anthony Capp, our
51:32
backup, is our starting corner as well.
51:34
Came and stepped up and made some huge plays through me.
51:35
That dirty old touchdown. He's really just been doing his
51:38
thing on defense, then offense. He's been stepping up.
51:40
You know, you saw him in cold, though, made a few plays and
51:42
then he really stepped up big time.
51:44
We don't get this way without him tonight.
51:46
Talk about your line guys, the line, how to block you guys for
51:49
you guys in order to, you know, for you to be able to run and
51:52
get your touchdowns and get your holes.
51:54
Talk about those guys like Charles Charlo.
51:58
Menace Club, all those guys, yeah, it starts up wrong with
52:00
them. They did a great job, you know,
52:01
really, just really controlling the game and, you know, have a
52:05
lot of trust in those guys. And then to run behind them is
52:07
such a pleasure. Right.
52:08
Halftime was only, what, 13? Nothing, right.
52:10
So what happened in the second-half, what you guys do to
52:12
kind of open it up? And yeah.
52:14
We know they were kind of bailing on the pass a little
52:16
bit. They're really selling hard on
52:17
the run and then really took advantage of that with some play
52:19
action. And then so we had three passing
52:22
touchdowns today, which is tremendous and we just got to
52:24
keep. Talking about talk about hey,
52:26
moving forward down the road, eventually when you once you're
52:28
done here, you're a senior to Senior Day, Senior night, talk
52:33
about going off to Boston College, what it means to go up
52:36
there and play football. Yeah, it's, I'm really just
52:38
truly blessed. And like you said, you know,
52:40
there'll be so many more games left here at Westwood and just
52:42
really trying to make and really trying to submit my legacy as
52:45
Robbie Carson. So excited for the future.
52:48
Yeah, so next week, Mahwa, pretty good team, very
52:51
competitive, always are kind of a rivalry game.
52:53
You got some good players up down.
52:54
If you've seen Elijah Dixon, he's really tough, runs hard.
52:58
You got to stop him. He's going to be.
53:00
He's a load. I saw him play against Ramsey.
53:02
He's really tough kid. Yeah, yeah, Mahwa's a great
53:04
team. I mean time every year arrival
53:06
and then, you know, we got one more dance with them, so we're
53:08
excited. I'm.
53:10
Talking about you. All right, Good to hear from
53:12
Steve Klein on these airwaves once again.
53:16
Bry, it's been a long time since you had, you know, presented an
53:21
interview with Steve Klein. I mean, you know, used to be a
53:23
weekly event, but now you're on to to greener pastures over
53:27
there in Bogota. And there are other places North
53:30
and South. Are you going to be, you know,
53:33
well, we will probably run the good graces over there as the
53:36
Pope with. The you know you.
53:39
Know what the challenge? We keep talking about it every
53:40
week. It's hard to be in more than one
53:42
place at one time. There is a game coming up.
53:46
Westwood will be up at Ramsey in two weeks.
53:50
I'm I have that. Circled as a game I'd like to go
53:52
and to see, but at the same time you're bumping heads with the
53:56
NJIC semi finals. So you know that's kind of a
54:01
little toss up. We got to toss and make a
54:03
decision, but the Westwood game against Ramsey be big for both
54:06
teams because Ramsey's in the same group with them.
54:10
Westwood now sitting pretty after their win against we
54:13
Quake. They are now number one seed.
54:16
So everybody's heading in that direction trying to, you know,
54:20
that's the goal, to be up there. I don't know if you can jump
54:23
over Westwood right now, but we talked about him last week.
54:26
Another not just to change gears a little bit, the Group 2 area.
54:29
We didn't talk about these guys too much.
54:31
We did talk a little bit about it last week, which is Bernards.
54:34
Bernards is the #3 in that group.
54:36
Group 2 you got Westwood, Shabazz, Bernards, Bernards 6
54:41
and O, there's only three team, 14-6, undefeated here in the
54:45
Group 2 and Bernards is 1. They will.
54:48
Be playing at. A Group 3 summit.
54:51
We've been there to see them play West W Essex a couple years
54:55
ago. Vern is very good Summit.
54:59
So you know we we're looking out for those guys.
55:01
And by the way, I'll mention Rutherford is #4 seed in that
55:04
bracket and Human and DuMont is number 8.
55:07
Ramsey #10 so there's a number of NGIC teams in there and a few
55:12
super football. So some interesting games this
55:15
Saturday over at Summit. That should be a nice game.
55:18
And by the way, I didn't mention Hoboken continues to roll, not
55:21
playing the best, the top teams, but they're six and O right now.
55:26
They're they're strength. The schedule's a little lighter
55:29
than the other guys. That's why they're not they're
55:31
fifth seed, not higher than that.
55:33
But congratulations to Joe and his staff down there and
55:36
continue to to to grow as well. If he keeps this up, he's going
55:40
to be find himself back on the football show on North Jersey
55:43
sports.com. And you just mentioned Bernards.
55:45
I mean, that was a fun conversation we had last year
55:48
with their head coach, John Simoneau.
55:50
And you know, there were there were no excuses, no whining, no
55:54
nothing. Hey, just recruit better.
55:57
I don't know if that actually came to passive Bernards or if
55:59
they brought in anybody if they could.
56:01
I don't know what the administration's like over
56:03
there. I don't know if they have an
56:04
Academy like they do in some places or whatever.
56:07
But I do know that they are 6 and O and they've blown out most
56:10
of the competition and even, you know, beat South played a
56:14
closest game this week against South Plainfield 17.
56:16
Nothing so. Maybe it's.
56:18
Also help, maybe it's also help they got new lights this year.
56:21
I think the lights were a little weak that they had.
56:24
I think they got new lights. Probably helps the boys be able
56:27
to see the ball better in the air when it's thrown to them.
56:29
You know, it was kind of dark. I remember seeing some video, it
56:32
was kind of dark there out there up on a hill above.
56:35
There's a shopping center down below where the King Supermarket
56:37
is and the school is up on the hill.
56:39
And I've seen the pictures and the videos and it's very now.
56:43
Now they have new lights. So that'll help a lot for Coach.
56:45
And the team? Have you ever put any pictures
56:47
potato chips in that shopping Plaza down the hill from where
56:51
Bernards plays football? I used to.
56:53
Sell over there. My career core.
56:55
It's a long career. We all get into that another.
56:57
Time I sold kings. For many, many years, I used to
57:00
sell Welsh farms, milk, local dairy here in New Jersey.
57:03
I worked there for 10 years. And Kings, that's a long story.
57:06
I can tell you about that. We need a couple beers.
57:08
We'll talk about that. All right, You know what I
57:10
wanted to ask you, You know, what I wanted to ask you is, you
57:13
know, you said before, those are decisions that we have to make,
57:15
Jimmy, don't you want to know? Like, then what do you put it
57:18
up? You and Bobby Maines, you get in
57:19
the room, do you put it up on the whiteboard?
57:21
Pros and cons of Westwood against Ramsey.
57:24
You know, where can we get a T-shirt?
57:25
Who, where can we get a, a cold bottle of water?
57:28
You know what? What goes into making these
57:30
decisions, you know? Well, also like like.
57:35
It's like the old CBS today, the NFL today, where Jiminy Greek
57:40
would have the board up and you would have, it would have, you
57:44
know, offense, defense, special teams, you know, intangibles and
57:49
he would put a check next to what he that that that's
57:52
basically what it is. Yes, and they do it on the the
57:56
Madden bus, traveling at breakneck speed across Bergen
58:02
County and beyond, you know? We allow, we allow influence.
58:06
We have Pat Rice who gives us some input.
58:08
We we talk to Jersey sports, so we listen to a lot of guys who
58:12
try to get the best game and Jimmy knows.
58:14
Jimmy knows where to go. We don't have to go far.
58:17
He knows. So we we collaborate.
58:19
Larry Laferi comes into play. Bobby Maines.
58:22
Who else? Ryan Patty.
58:24
What do we got a name? Greg mature.
58:25
What are we going to do? How many guys we got a name here
58:28
before we come up with it? You know it's it's quality,
58:32
though. It's.
58:32
Quality I I guess I asked, so I have to receive the answer all
58:36
right. What else?
58:37
What are we missing here? We're going.
58:40
I always say. I always say.
58:42
You know, I always say like we're not going to have a guest
58:43
on this week and I hope we can fill some time.
58:45
And then I look down at the recorder as a keeps rolling.
58:48
We're pushing an hour here, so Jimmy, go.
58:51
Ahead, you know, just quickly as we're taping right now, the the
58:55
Kansas City Chiefs are playing the Jacksonville Jaguar and we
59:00
we really should mention the first year defensive coordinator
59:03
for Jacksonville, Anthony Campanelli and the job that he's
59:07
doing down there. I think it's four games.
59:09
They've they've caused 13 turnovers.
59:14
Yeah. So you know what?
59:16
We knew it. We saw him very I saw him very,
59:18
very early in his life, how much he how much he loved football
59:22
and what a great coach he was going to be.
59:23
And sure enough, he's 43 years old and he's a defensive
59:27
coordinator in the NFL. Pretty pretty proud of him and
59:31
glad to see it. Amazing what the Campanella name
59:36
and what what the family has done within the confines of
59:40
every level of football. It really it's great.
59:42
Bryce what? Anything we missed?
59:45
Hey, well, we we didn't talk too much about the big boys, but I
59:48
have to mention Paramus Catholic had a big win.
59:50
They traveled down to Edison to play a competitive game down
59:54
there and, you know, come out on top and they're two and four.
59:58
I mean, they rushed for over almost 300 yards and five
1:00:01
touchdowns. Achilles D.
1:00:03
Pont led the. Way 86 yards 2 touchdowns pretty
1:00:07
solid game for them and you know for for that they get to we will
1:00:12
mention who they're playing this week A-Team from Oradell, so.
1:00:15
He'll he'll have their hands full.
1:00:17
This week, but you know, I think Jimmy can mention it more.
1:00:20
Did the quarterback have a little you know, I don't want to
1:00:23
we Jimmy may want to talk about it more.
1:00:24
He's better suited to me. But I know they went the
1:00:27
quarterback went down. So they're, you know.
1:00:30
Working on the backup. Yeah, yeah.
1:00:33
You know, you mentioned going down to Saint Thomas Aquinas, a
1:00:35
team that was four and one coming in.
1:00:38
They were ranked previously in the top 20, you know, for
1:00:42
Paramus Catholic, or we mentioned it, the schedule
1:00:45
opened up a tough loss at Saint Peters, who's undefeated.
1:00:49
Yep, lost a close game, a competitive game.
1:00:53
The Saint Joe's lost the, you know, a wild shootout to Iona
1:00:59
Prep, defending state champions in New York.
1:01:02
They're undefeated. So you know, their schedule has
1:01:06
been pretty crazy. You mentioned you know, they
1:01:09
they had a nice win 4214 last week and all they get for that
1:01:13
is a Bergen Catholic team coming off a loss, Don Bosco and a week
1:01:20
to prepare on a Bible. So you know, odds, odds are not
1:01:25
very good for the Paladins, but you know, they'll, they'll go
1:01:28
out there and they'll play hard like they've done all year.
1:01:31
Yeah. Oh, really?
1:01:32
And then you, like you mentioned, you got Bosco Joes
1:01:36
this weekend. That's the big one.
1:01:37
We'll see how Bosco can deal with the the prosperity of
1:01:39
beating Bergen. That should be interesting to
1:01:41
watch. And last but not least, bright
1:01:46
early projections on your whiteboard and with your boxes
1:01:49
checked, where do you think you're heading this weekend?
1:01:52
Well, you you just mentioned it. So, Oh, Friday night.
1:01:56
Where the heck did we decide for Friday night?
1:01:58
I haven't. Friday night is up in the air at
1:02:00
the moment. I can't think.
1:02:02
Oh, wait. Right.
1:02:04
That one. Yeah.
1:02:04
Ramapo we Valley. That's.
1:02:06
Right, Jimmy, thank you for reminding me.
1:02:08
It's a, you know, we're, we're getting a little.
1:02:10
Further away, you know, going out Western, western Bergen
1:02:14
County here. So yeah, we haven't been up
1:02:16
there. We haven't been up to Aleppo.
1:02:18
The other one I was thinking about, we're just talking about
1:02:20
on Saturday. So we're going to go see Bosco
1:02:23
visit Saint Joe's should be a very competitive game.
1:02:27
And and I got to mention one thing about Bosco last week
1:02:30
played DePaul, pretty competitive game, but you know,
1:02:34
it was close in the second quarter, Bosco was able to get a
1:02:37
late field goal and then from there they kind of just two
1:02:41
steamrolls. It was just 2415 1/2 time and
1:02:45
then lights out in the second-half and a quote.
1:02:48
From a reliable. Coach that we all know, said
1:02:53
quote, I don't know if Jimmy heard this as well.
1:02:54
I heard it. He said that Bosco was probably
1:02:58
the best defense he has ever seen, this year, ever seen.
1:03:03
I don't, you know, and I don't want to say who it was who said
1:03:07
it, but a coach who coached against Bosco said that.
1:03:12
So, so that tells you something. The coach has been coaching for
1:03:15
a long time. Head coach.
1:03:16
Formerly we talked about Rutherford Dogs, former head
1:03:19
coach at the Rutherford Dogs, and his son is now a quarterback
1:03:23
for the DePaul Spartans. So but that would be that would
1:03:29
be coach Frank Morano, who's been around a long time.
1:03:32
And I think that was a true feeling that he had that Bosco
1:03:36
was one of the best. So, hey, you know, they're going
1:03:38
to probably end up playing Bergen again.
1:03:40
You know, that we're going to say you're going to see Joe's
1:03:42
here this weekend. So let's not, you know, put it
1:03:45
in the books yet. I think, you know, there's still
1:03:47
more action to play. But Bosco right now beat Bergen
1:03:51
and now they've beaten De Paul. And this week they'll go up to
1:03:54
Joe and have to take on a good Joe team who is, you know, you
1:03:58
know, lost, you know, had a tough game against Peters, lost
1:04:00
by one point on a 2 point conversion at the end of the
1:04:02
game. So Joe's going to be hungry as
1:04:04
well. And I think Joe's was off last
1:04:07
week. Jimmy, am I correct?
1:04:08
They were off last week. I'm not certain of that within a
1:04:11
buy they had. They had a buy last week after
1:04:14
losing that tight game to Saint Peters, obviously without their
1:04:18
quarterback Mr. Beth and Nate Bailey.
1:04:22
I'm sure that extra week should help them.
1:04:26
I heard some rumors that both of them will be playing.
1:04:32
Specifically Nate Bailey will be playing and they hope that miss
1:04:35
the best plays. I mean, if those two kids are
1:04:38
there, that's going to be 1 hell of a football game.
1:04:42
Yes, and I will be on assignment this week.
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It is my daughter's birthday weekend and we always go
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somewhere to watch college football.
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So this week, as it turns out, we will be in the Poconos, so we
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will see the homecoming weekend. E Strasburg University is
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hosting Bloomsburg in a big time division two tilt in the PSAC,
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which so I can justify it as a work trip because Tyler
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Demikoff, the son of Wayne Hills head coach Demikoff is a member
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of the East Stroudsburg University football team.
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He's a Red shred freshman and a backup quarterback.
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So I'll just say, you know, who knows?
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Maybe he gets in the game, throws the game when he
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touchdown pass, then I interview him.
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We won't know unless I am there. So I'm going to scope it all out
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and we will report back next week on the Football Show.
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Follow the leader.