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  Back on The Football Show, North Jersey sports.com's original
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  multimedia series talking all things football across North
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  Jersey, we are knee deep in the postseason.
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  I am Corey Dobiak, 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, Jimmy?
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  Hey, what's up Core? A lot of truck this week in the
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  brackets, but we did have a major upset down on Route 17 S
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  We'll talk about it later. No doubt about it.
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  And another guy running around all of North Jersey and beyond,
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  sending tweets and photos and so many.
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  Other videos. Videos.
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  I mean, what else? Wrestling with coaches?
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  Kids. What?
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  Else does. He do.
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  He's the head Husky. His former head Husky, the Pope
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  of the Cardinal of the Westwood, the alpha dog in the bulldog
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  pack. He is Brian Car.
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  What's going on, Brian? Hey, Corey.
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  The good time of year, you know, some guys get to continue
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  playing and other people get to pack their bags and look forward
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  to, you know, maybe next season. But good time.
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  You're seeing some of the best football teams come out on top
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  right now. And so we'll get to talk about
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  it today. And they just announced the
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  brackets for the pro kill. We'll talk about that as well.
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  Yeah, Jimmy, some people pack their bags and then some people
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  unpack them to play another game.
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  Even even after balls were put away from the season, but.
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  Yeah. We can get into that too, but
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  let's start. I don't know, I think where you
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  guys were on Saturday, Brian, we'll start with you.
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  Why not make this a Rutherford right off the top?
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  I mean this, you know, in years past, you, you, you, you catch
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  on to these teams. You know, there was the East
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  Orange campus and we've been over all, you know, this year,
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  very local, very, you know, Rutherford centric this year,
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  Brian, and you were there and you know, you're there last week
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  for the NJIC playoffs. You're there this week for the
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  first round of the state tournament.
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  We had Joe Borkowski on. I mean, first, before you give
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  us your impressions of that opening round, one of the most
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  competitive games played in the playoffs in in Burton County
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  certainly, and even across the whole state this past week.
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  Did you get your T-shirts from Joe Borkowski?
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  Yes, I did, Corey, and I'm very appreciative.
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  I thank Coach Joe for that. What do you give you?
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  That. Red white Hoboken, red red
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  lettering on a white shirt. Nice.
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  Like an Under Armour. Type of a suit.
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  Very nice approach, dry fit. Yeah, oh, the good stuff Joe
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  brought. A good stuff for you.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Thank him. I appreciate it.
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  And you know what I was I will wear the shirt for sure.
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  Coach had requested if they win that I wear the shirt, but I
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  will wear the shirt even though they weren't.
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  Able to come out on top, but I. Was going to say I haven't seen
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  it on Twitter yet. No, I, I've taken a picture of
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  it. I have a picture of it with
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  Rutherford jersey at the same time.
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  But you know what this reminds me of?
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  I think it was four years ago in the NGIC playoffs where you had
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  two coaches that we knew. Both Joey Katrona and Coach
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  Steve Dunn were in the NGIC final or semi final.
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  That may have been, I mean, you know, it wasn't final.
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  I think the final. Jenny yeah, the final and and
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  you had two coaches here. These guys were very close.
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  And for those who don't know, Coach Burkowski was on the staff
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  with Coach Steve Dunn over Richfield Park and then he
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  stayed there after Steve moved over to Rutherford.
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  The two guys are very close friends.
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  And, you know, they were at the All Star game earlier back in
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  June together. So it's tough when you have two
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  guys like that that are, you know, buddies and they have to
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  go out and play each other. And, you know, I think Coach
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  Dunn probably would say that they were, you know, in for some
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  trouble already with the Red Wings because they have some
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  really good players on the team and coaches done a great job
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  with them. And, you know, their
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  quarterback, he may have been a little, I think he had a leg
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  injury. I know he missed the game.
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  Isaiah Banks, good quarterback, you can make the throw.
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  Isaiah Blanks. I said Banks, but you know, he
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  made they really, it was 4 big plays for Hoboken.
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  They had a hard time running, you know, keeping the ball,
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  running it down the field, but had four big plays.
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  And that's that was what they scored on.
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  And Rutherford kind of played a little keep away, were able to
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  move the ball control a little bit more of the, you know,
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  possession time. And you know, credit to
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  Rutherford in both teams, both teams, Cory, you know, game was
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  back and forth. Rutherford goes up 14, nothing.
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  Then Hoboken comes back, goes up 20 to 14.
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  Rutherford comes back, goes up 2820.
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  You know, both teams competed and then we had a 28 all and
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  late in the fourth quarter. And hey, again, credit to
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  Rutherford here. In this case, they were able to
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  get the ball good kick for a turn and they really they ran a
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  trick play too. They kind of did a little toss
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  to Johnny Julia the running back and he threw it to one of the
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  receivers. Now I forget his name off the
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  top my ahead. Oh, Schroeder, Hank Schroeder
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  threw a pass and that got him deep into almost inside the 10
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  yard line here late in the game. And they they were lucky.
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  They got a couple plays. They had a penalty ineligible
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  receiver downfield. And then they also had another
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  play with the ball was snapped, I think over the quarterback's
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  head. It pushed him back a little bit.
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  But hey, credit to their kicker. The kicker, Jordan.
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  I was Graham, Jordan Graham. It's for those who don't know
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  already. He kicked a field goal.
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  There's three nothing win against Glen Rock and he also
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  had the extra point in the NJIC semi final.
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  They had to come back in that they were down 13 seven.
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  He kicked the game-winning extra point to win that game.
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  Hey, no pressure, no pressure for the young man.
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  He's he is the kicker on the on the roster.
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  He's kicker. He doesn't really do much else
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  but kick, and man that kick was good.
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  True blue, no doubt about it. Got up there. 2 timeouts for Joe
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  Berkowski calls. 2 timeouts. Isom kick gets up there and
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  waxes. It was good, no doubt about it.
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  So, you know, great game and you know, the only thing that's
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  tough about it is now they got to go down to Newark and play
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  Shabazz. Shabazz was able to really take
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  care of business against Lyndhurst, the Bears on Saturday
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  night after this game was on Saturday, our game at
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  Rutherford. And so that'll be a major test
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  and coach knows that as well. Shabazz, defending section
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  champ, also was a finalist for A state championship at Group 2.
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  So they're going to have their hands full there.
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  But, you know, congratulations to both teams.
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  You know, as I said it, I think Pat Rice said it as well.
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  Too bad that somebody had to lose here.
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  Rutherford or Hoboken, congratulations to coach
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  Burkowski, 9 and O, 9:00 and 1:00 to finish the season.
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  Great year. And by the way, both these two
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  teams, very young. Rutherford, I think it's 25
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  juniors and sophomores, only two seniors.
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  Hoboken is almost very similar. A lot of underclassmen.
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  These two we should see in the future and look forward to
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  seeing some good football between these two teams core.
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  Yeah, Jimmy, your thoughts on the game?
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  I know you were there too. And then you.
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  Should you? Should Oh, all right, yes, let's
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  let's well, let's have let's close out this bracket and then
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  Brad will go back to the audio you have from Rutherford.
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  I forgot that you sent that in, which was great.
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  I listened to it earlier. So we'll get that there.
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  But Jimmy, your thoughts on the game and then maybe just segue
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  into the bottom of the bracket where we had, you know, two of
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  the only upsets in all of North Jersey.
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  Yeah, you know, first of all, a great environment, a try on
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  field for a Saturday game and we don't usually get to get a
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  Saturday game. And and as Brian mentioned,
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  Rutherford jumped out 14. Nothing.
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  You wondered how Hoboken was going to respond.
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  They responded when an 83 yard touchdown run which got him back
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  in a ball game. Just just a great game going
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  back and forth, you know, I think, you know, couple plays
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  here or there, you know, they, they lived on big plays.
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  Hoboken Rutherford was more of a methodical thing.
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  But I I, you know, I went up to coach Joe from Hoboken after the
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  game. And you know, we've all as a
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  coach, when you've coached, you've all gone through a game
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  like that. And you know, I just simply said
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  that. Joe, you know, Jimmy from North
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  Jersey sports.com, I know the game didn't wind up the way you
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  wanted it, but your kids played, you know, their hearts out and
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  the, you know, the future is bright.
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  And he said, thank you very much.
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  You know, Rutherford, you know, they found a way.
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  You know, they, they do have a very good kicking game with the
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  kicker, as Brian mentioned, they found the way, you know, and,
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  and, and you know, Brian continues to call him the
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  sophomores and the juniors and, and the puppies.
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  At this point, 10 or 11 games into the season, the sophomores
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  are juniors, the juniors are seniors.
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  And you know, I, I'd be interested to see what happens
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  down in, in, in Newark. The only thing I wanted to add
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  to the Rutherford Hoboken thing is what a great job that Steve
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  Dunn has done with this Rutherford program.
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  I mean crazy. Back in the NJIC final with a
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  young squad 8 and one record, another playoff win against a
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  worthy opponent in a close game. I mean crazy.
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  So congratulations to Rutherford moving on and also we got to say
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  we had Joe Borkowski on last week on the show.
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  He's one of my favorite guys and turned around Hoboken in short
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  order a tough 3128 set back to end the season at 9:00 and 1:00.
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  But do not under play what happened this year with the Red
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  Wings. I mean, Hoboken back in the
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  right direction, a perfect regular season and then, you
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  know, giving Rutherford with a host of you know, program
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  experience in these big games at home, giving them all they can
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  handle. All right, Bryce, so let's the
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  last word on that game will be from some of the participants.
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  So why don't you set up the audio that you sent in?
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  Right. Hey, Corey, when we, you know,
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  Coach Dunn, we had him on the show earlier in the year and
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  we've been talking about the kids and as you guys said
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  earlier, they're no longer the puppies any longer.
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  One thing in the audio you will hear in the background, there's
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  Steve's young son Jack was running around and I tried to
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  pick him up and he's really young guys, so he's very
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  enthusiastic. But we'll get him in the future.
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  He'll have a few more words to say, but he was in the
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  background there and excited to be there on the field with his
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  dad. But yeah, Coach Don, great job
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  and Coach Berkowski as well. But here's Coach Don talking
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  about they're no longer puppies and made a few more plays and
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  Hoboken and came out as winner. Yep, here we go.
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  Bryant Carr with a Rutherford Post game interview.
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  Here in Rutherford, after a thrilling 3128 win, in the final
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  play of the game, Johnny Joya helped him with a touchdown.
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  Miles Bolton had three touchdowns with the hero of the
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  games, Graham Jordan with the kick, 31 yards.
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  Great ball. Do a big interview.
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  Go ahead, Jimmy. Ask a question to coach.
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  Go ahead. Go ahead, Jimmy.
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  What do we got, Brian? What do we got?
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  You're telling me, hey, who's this guy?
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  Hey, buddy, who's that? We got one.
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  We got. Football game is what?
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  We got. What do you think happened
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  today? Tell us about the game, Jack.
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  And the Bulldogs win. Oh, it's OK, Jack.
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  We had a great football game tonight or today I should say.
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  And we at the end of the day say, you know, our kids are they
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  found a way to win. We fought, fought through some
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  good adversity there. Thought we tried to throw the
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  game away about 3 different times.
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  But we always had a way to respond.
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  And once we responded, you know, we, we got hit again and then we
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  respond again. But we were just fortunate
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  enough to have the ball at the end there and thank God we got a
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  kicker this year. Yeah, you were down.
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  You went down 2114, up 14, nothing.
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  Down 2114. How to come back from that?
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  Or 20. You're only 2014 then you're up
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  by a point and able to make it up by 8:00.
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  And they tied it at 28. Crazy.
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  Crazy back and forth, back and forth.
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  You know, that's an undefeated Hoboken team there.
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  It's done an awesome job this year.
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  So I'm proud of our boys effort and never given up attitude.
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  We just, we kept fighting. And when you keep fighting, good
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  things happen. Yeah, a lot of young kids.
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  Miles Balkan, 3 touchdowns. Johnny Joy.
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  At this point in the juniors. Yes, yes, that's the idea.
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  We hope so. Talk about Coach Burkowski.
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  Come on. Joe is Joe is a very good friend
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  of mine and we talk to each other all the time.
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  I had him on my staff for five years, whatever, actually six
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  years ago now, Richfield Park, and he's this great guy, great
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  guy. He's a really good coach, don't
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  get me wrong. He had these guys in the right
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  spot. He's a better guy, you know,
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  like I. He's just.
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  A good friend, 4 big plays. Really that really just big
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  chunk plays. I mean, congratulations, that
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  really good team, very athletic. You know, it's what we work on.
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  Our big thing defensively is don't give up the big play and
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  they were able to hit 4 big ones on us.
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  So they they he put pushed the right buttons at the right
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  times. And you know, there's a lot for
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  us to get better at, but at the end of the day, we're moving on
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  so young. Puppies are now not.
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  We got the kicker. We got to get the kicker.
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  Yeah, we'll get the young kicker.
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  We'll get the kicker. Congratulations.
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  No pressure, huh? Brian Carr here.
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  I'm with the star of the game. Rutherford.
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  Graham Jordan, Junior, right. Junior kicker.
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  Got one more year. No more young puppies.
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  We call young puppies coach dogs.
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  Talk about what you're going through your mind.
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  I mean they try to ice you 3 times, like two or three times.
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  Biggest thing is just, you know, staying mentally focused,
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  mentally locked in my guys, they kept tying me up in the huddle.
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  They had my back. I try to have there as much as
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  possible. They work so hard, you know, you
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  know, be a shame if I missed that kick for them, you know?
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  So I got to make those plays. Yeah.
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  All went through the uprights look good.
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  Everything felt good. Yeah, really was.
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  It was just straight, no doubt. Oh, I had a goal post Sorry,
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  Clement, Congratulations on that.
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  Made all the extra points too. That's very important because
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  you, you know, you were up 2120. They missed 1.
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  So you were at least ahead and then you had to come in at the
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  end. What does it mean to Rutherford?
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  You know, you're, you're Rutherford guy.
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  What does it mean to you, the town, the school to come out and
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  have a big win like? This.
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  It's awesome to do it in front of everyone.
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  All my friends. I grew up with family in the
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  Sands. They always come out and
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  support, got the best fans in the world.
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  But you know, it was just a great moment.
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  And you know, they're they're cheering for me.
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  And yeah. Talk about your teammates,
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  quarterback Miles Bolton, Johnny Julius, sophomore, and you have
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  also Quinn Beverly, Don't forget him.
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  A lot of really good kids. Talk about some of those guys
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  and Miles, what he does to help lead the team.
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  Yeah, yeah. So we got a lot of young talent,
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  young puppies, as you said, but they all work so hard.
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  Miles specifically, I think that he's everyday he's he's a gamer.
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  He came out on the sideline. He had blood all over his
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  fingers. And I just, I think that really
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  just shows like how hard Miles works and, you know, his kind of
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  his mojo, you know, he's a, he's a hard competitive downhill
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  runner. You see him, he runs the ball a
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  lot. Yeah.
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  Quinn, he's also young. He's he's also really good.
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  We're yeah. But yeah, he also works hard.
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  You know, really everyone on this team works hard.
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  So it's it's great to see moments like this.
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  Great stuff there as Rutherford heads off into the state
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  sectoral semi finals against the Baz and we move on in that same
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  bracket. Jimmy, take us to the bottom.
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  What the heck went on down there?
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  Well, if you remember core while we were breaking down the
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  brackets last week, you know, Brian said.
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  You know that maybe N to Group 2 was a little deeper of a bracket
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  than North One Group 2. And sure enough, it played out
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  affecting going out to undefeated Hanover Park, who had
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  some impressive wins this year and they come out with a 2622
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  win. You know one thing about back
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  then with those coaches, Coach Mahar and Carl Ross and and
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  Danny Farina and the crew, you know those kids are going to be
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  prepared. They're going to be physical and
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  just an outstanding job. Coming out with the W the other
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  day, the other one, we had one of one of our favorite coaches
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  ever to appear on the show. We had Bernards, the two seed
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  hosting the seven seed Madison again, Madison talent wise is
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  not a seven seed and they found the way to win that game.
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  So the bottom of the bracket is is busted.
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  The two and the three seed are out.
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  You have a seven seed and a six seed and lo and behold Becton
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  will be hosting a semi final this Friday night down at
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  Riggins Field. Then it should be another
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  exciting game. Yeah, really crazy because
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  Jimmy, before the show we were just, you know, going over some
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  show notes, blah, blah, blah. And I said, did you see the back
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  in one? And they were like, well, not
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  you, you're much more knowledgeable than I am, but I'm
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  like, let me just like, who could Hanover Park have beaten?
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  You know, like it had to be some type of bloated resume that got
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  on the number three seed. You know, didn't play anybody.
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  You'd look at Hanover Park schedule.
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  They beat Madison, they beat Mountain Lakes, they beat West
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  Essex, they beat We Quake. I mean those, those right there.
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  I mean, even, you know, Pequannock is not a horrible
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  team. I mean they they really
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  unbelievable and they beat Pequannock 50 to nothing and
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  they beat Parsippany 63 to nothing.
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  I mean, those teams are strugglers obviously, but you
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  know, they won at West Essex 2928.
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  That's a good win no matter how you slice.
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  No question about it. And this is the second year for
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  Beckton, you know, always a contender in in the group, Group
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  One bracket. This is the second year up in
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  Group 2. Last year they had the the
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  unenvigable drive out to high point and and to play high
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  point, you know, out there in their first year.
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  Because now, as we know, they're getting a bunch of kids from
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  Maywood and their numbers are up in the school.
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  So they've gone to group 2 and they certainly adjusted.
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  I mean, just an incredible, incredible win, and I'm sure
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  they will give Madison everything they want this week.
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  Yeah, that's crazy. Brian, anything to add about?
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  I mean, we also I fumble the ball.
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  We should have had Coach Maher on this week, but if they beat
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  Madison this week, we're definitely going to, well, at
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  least effort that month. Extend the invitation because
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  it's a great story. Probably anything to add there?
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  You want to move on. No, no, I I think it's a good
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  game. You know when we were saying
• 19:33
  before, this is the only 6-7 in the North that we found out of
• 19:38
  the? 10 did you just say so?
• 19:39
  6-7 Did you say 676? 7.
• 19:44
  How could you do that? Bry, 6767.
• 19:49
  Anyway, yes, it's 6. Seven.
• 19:52
  OK. I mean, no, no.
• 19:54
  You not know, do you not get the 6-7 jokes?
• 19:57
  Because I I envy you wholeheartedly if you do have
• 20:00
  never heard of the. No, I don't.
• 20:02
  I yeah, it's. Probably beyond me.
• 20:05
  I don't know that one. I know another number that's
• 20:07
  close to that, but not. This one.
• 20:09
  Particularly, well, Jimmy. He's lucky, I guess.
• 20:14
  I have to look it up after the show.
• 20:16
  He's all he's all focused on. Football, that's.
• 20:20
  It right, right, right, no, but you know you look around there's
• 20:24
  not there's not I think I found in the North there's only two
• 20:27
  sixes and 1/7 that have made it to this semi final.
• 20:32
  So it's these two guys here have done a good job, whereas the
• 20:36
  other brackets are pretty much 1234 and we have a nice bracket
• 20:41
  here. It's going to be.
• 20:42
  Tough, you know, with Shabazz on the other side, but he might as
• 20:45
  well Segway over to our next game on the other side, the
• 20:48
  north one, Group 2. We were Jimmy and I Bobby Joe
• 20:54
  was there and we were. Larry was up there doing the
• 20:57
  game. Larry and John were doing the
• 20:58
  game for WCTV. We were at Westwood.
• 21:01
  Westwood. Newton.
• 21:03
  These guys have played each other about.
• 21:04
  This the third time in about the last six or seven years, I think
• 21:08
  they split those two games. So coming into this one, it was,
• 21:12
  you know, you never knew. We knew where Westwood was and
• 21:15
  Newton as the eighth seed, you know a little bit, you know not.
• 21:20
  Quite as up to. The standards of Westwood, but
• 21:22
  you know, Westwood kind of get out early, got out to a 20 point
• 21:26
  lead. And I think once they got that
• 21:28
  lead, you kind of felt like they were, you know, going to control
• 21:31
  the rest of the game. And they they pretty much did
• 21:33
  they they moved the ball off 20 to 7 and just Stevie Klein and.
• 21:39
  Company, he doesn't have to do it all.
• 21:41
  We talked about this before. Stevie Klein doesn't have to do
• 21:44
  everything. He's a game breaker as we've
• 21:46
  talked about. But you know, Bruno Vega can run
• 21:49
  the ball and toss the rock. Tyler Hansen, Anthony Greco had
• 21:53
  a nice catch. Hey, by the way, before I
• 21:56
  forget, Stevie Klein had a really good touchdown run about
• 21:58
  10 yards, but he stumbled at about the 10.
• 22:02
  Still can keep his balance and pushed it in.
• 22:04
  Hey, shout out to his younger brother to the sophomore Nick,
• 22:07
  Nick Klein, a couple key plays. I think he had a good tick off
• 22:10
  return. There was some cast catches.
• 22:13
  He had one I know for sure was up for a first down.
• 22:16
  So shout out to young Nicki Klein.
• 22:19
  He's the next client of the third one.
• 22:21
  If you don't know, remember Joey Klein, now a sophomore up at
• 22:24
  Courtland, Steven a senior and Nick, he's the next guy coming
• 22:28
  along, you know, but the the Cardinals are are on their way
• 22:32
  to a semi final and the semi final familiar foe.
• 22:37
  They played them a couple times. Now they're going to welcome in
• 22:40
  the Caldwell Chiefs, who they played in Caldwell earlier this
• 22:43
  year at a 1714 overtime loss to the Chiefs out there.
• 22:50
  So I think this time the Cardinals will be ready to be
• 22:53
  hosting the game on Friday night at Westwood or Washington
• 22:55
  Township. Should be a good game.
• 22:58
  But I think the thing that really Westwood did here, you're
• 23:00
  seeing championship football. The game ended up 3322, but it
• 23:04
  really wasn't that close. Westwood was up 27, seven and
• 23:08
  really except for one drive for Newton, they didn't really have,
• 23:12
  you know, I think the longest drive they had was 24 yards.
• 23:14
  They had like 5 drives and thank you to Pat Rice for his stats,
• 23:18
  but they had like 5 drives after their first score and weren't
• 23:21
  able to do rest with it and and Westwood was able to continue to
• 23:26
  score and capitalize when there was an opportunity and.
• 23:29
  You know they played Westwood. Football, when they need to
• 23:31
  score, they score and they stay ahead.
• 23:33
  And Westwood, you know, really dominated the game and it got a
• 23:36
  little back and forth at the end with a few scores, but not
• 23:40
  really as close as the final score, of course.
• 23:42
  Crazy and another unbelievable season put together 9 and one
• 23:46
  for Westwood. Now they're only lost in
• 23:48
  overtime on the road at Caldwell, a Caldwell team that
• 23:53
  has played, you know, has gotten better as the season's gone
• 23:56
  along and just so happens to be Westwood's next opponent.
• 24:00
  The rematch, The rematch coming, coming this Friday night.
• 24:03
  Westwood at home against Caldwell in the 14 match up.
• 24:06
  Caldwell put an end to a great season.
• 24:08
  Well, actually not. And the DuMont playoff run,
• 24:12
  4422. Dumont's still going to play on
• 24:14
  Thanksgiving against Tenafly, but Caldwell next for Westwood.
• 24:19
  And I'm sure they will Jimmy. They will have to be little in
• 24:22
  the way of motivational speeches before that game.
• 24:26
  No, you know, going back to the game the the game that past
• 24:30
  week, you know, when you see Newton as an 8 seed, you know,
• 24:33
  you kind of say to yourself, oh, this yeah, this could be a very
• 24:37
  competitive game. And it was.
• 24:38
  I mean, Westwood scored first. Newton went right down the field
• 24:43
  66 yards on a drive. They did not throw the ball, you
• 24:48
  know, very well coached, very athletic team.
• 24:52
  Westwood, you know, kept them within, you know, they were
• 24:55
  within striking distance, but to never get up the hump.
• 24:58
  Westwood had two opportunities before the second quarter ended
• 25:03
  to, you know, inside their territory.
• 25:05
  They and and give Newton credit, they held them and it it was 20
• 25:09
  to 7 at halftime. Steve Klein scored the touchdown
• 25:12
  to to put the game away. I must mention, excuse me, that
• 25:19
  he he did get a little banged up proportionary.
• 25:24
  They kept them, you know, kept them out precautionarily.
• 25:29
  They could have brought him back in a game And you know, his
• 25:32
  status will be unknown for most of the week.
• 25:36
  And you know, hopefully we get to see him play because he's a
• 25:39
  tremendous not only a tremendous football player, Corey, but a
• 25:42
  tremendous kid. And, you know, like you said,
• 25:46
  Caldwell, they're, they're, you know, very familiar with
• 25:48
  Caldwell and this. Yeah, I mean, and they're a good
• 25:53
  team. They're led by a sophomore
• 25:55
  quarterback. We saw the game last year,
• 25:57
  Bryan, when their quarterback was a freshman.
• 25:59
  He's very athletic. He could beat her with his arm
• 26:02
  and his leg. And I'm looking forward to that
• 26:05
  game. Yes, Steve Klein.
• 26:08
  Also Bryan Carr's favorite. Bryan, see your favorite
• 26:10
  interview of all time. Oh, man, yeah, I guess, yeah.
• 26:15
  You have to stick with, you know, young senior you know is
• 26:18
  one of the good kids. Rutherford that you used to
• 26:21
  interview with all the time the the lineman.
• 26:23
  What was your name? Did we get Lawson Fisher once?
• 26:26
  Did we get? Him one time two years ago,
• 26:29
  Lawson. Yeah, Lawson, then we did.
• 26:31
  We have Van. We must have gotten Van and
• 26:33
  probably Ryan Ward a little bit down there at Rutherford.
• 26:37
  Yep. Well, I remember Lawson.
• 26:38
  Lawson was a little bit of a Wildman down.
• 26:41
  There for the Rutherford Bulldogs.
• 26:43
  He was a fun interview too. Brian Cole.
• 26:45
  We have one day we'll, we'll do a special episode.
• 26:47
  Brian Carr's Hall of Fame of of who the yes, Hall of Fame
• 26:53
  interviews and favorite players of all time.
• 26:55
  And then we'll have you Rutherford by far and we'll
• 27:00
  we'll have you also rank your favorite free swag that you've
• 27:03
  gotten as well. Put you on the spot that that
• 27:05
  does that Joe that Joey did. It was there next to one of the
• 27:09
  bag for me. From Borkowski or no?
• 27:12
  You play disc golf with him? I figured he wouldn't give you 1
• 27:15
  of disc golf and. He takes my discs and when he
• 27:18
  loses his, he expects me to find them.
• 27:21
  He would take maybe one T-shirt, maybe even score a little bit,
• 27:25
  but man, that's, that's something else.
• 27:28
  He gives you a bag, Fauna and Jimmy.
• 27:30
  It was on a game that he lost and he gives him a bag full of
• 27:32
  swag, I mean. I'll tell you what I see, Brian
• 27:35
  didn't. Touch it.
• 27:37
  There's one. There's one other.
• 27:38
  Bag of swag. Oh.
• 27:40
  No. Oh no.
• 27:42
  Son gave them a Rutherford bag. For the YMCA gift baskets for
• 27:49
  the YMCA sports fan. I got stuck into that, too, two
• 27:53
  years in a row. Big Bang North Jersey sports.com
• 27:56
  drive fit. He's a big in a dry fit.
• 27:58
  Frank Clark. Jimmy.
• 27:59
  I thought you said he was. I thought you were going to say
• 28:01
  Steve Dunn gave him a varsity letter.
• 28:04
  Letterman jacket. Yeah.
• 28:05
  Well, that's that comes back the season is.
• 28:08
  Over if they get too. Fast.
• 28:10
  You're definitely getting the leather sleeves.
• 28:11
  I Oh my God, Corey, by the way, just so you know, I did give
• 28:16
  give AT shirt or one of one of your North Jersey sports.
• 28:20
  I gave one to the principal, Frank Marino Mariano and and his
• 28:26
  daughter Renault. So Frank was very thankful that
• 28:30
  I gave it to him. He wasn't expecting suicide.
• 28:32
  I gave him a couple. I figured he deserves that for
• 28:34
  the amount of time he put up. Oh, man, I probably gave him
• 28:39
  blue because we're in Rutherford.
• 28:41
  I figured that'd be the right color for him, you know, And
• 28:44
  thanks to Frankie, introduced me to his daughter who's a fair
• 28:47
  loan athlete. She's a soccer player and a
• 28:50
  volleyball player. I don't remember her name.
• 28:53
  She's a freshman. And the other, the other guy,
• 28:55
  Frankie, who plays up at the Paul as the quarterbacks for
• 28:58
  sophomore. So we'll be seeing more of his
• 29:00
  son playing quarterback for the Paul.
• 29:02
  Where are them in good health? Morano family.
• 29:05
  All right, so bottom of the bracket.
• 29:08
  Well, Bryan got to go. I mean, Jimmy, it's like Bryan
• 29:12
  Carr's greatest hits. Ramsey 39.
• 29:14
  High Point 34. Yeah, I mean, you know, we
• 29:18
  talked about that game, you know, High Point being a
• 29:21
  physical game team and I know Coach Bear was worried about
• 29:25
  their physicality. It was a back and forth 4th
• 29:30
  affair as as most of Ram Ramsey's big game seemed to be
• 29:35
  in trailing. With about 2 1/2 minutes left.
• 29:38
  They went on a drive and scored and and held on And you know,
• 29:43
  congratulations to the Rams coach Bear they move on.
• 29:47
  They will take on the Glen Rock this Friday night in Glen Rock
• 29:52
  in the semifinals. Yeah, and Glen Rock 14, Wallblix
• 29:56
  7. A good game there.
• 29:57
  I mean, Glen Rock, not the highest scoring team, but having
• 30:00
  not seen him, we had Coach McCord on last year.
• 30:03
  They are now seven and two on the season with their only
• 30:06
  losses coming by three points to Rutherford and six points to
• 30:10
  Hasbrouck Heights. So obviously, I'm just looking
• 30:13
  at it. They haven't given up many
• 30:15
  points at all all season. I mean, really tremendous
• 30:20
  defensive team and you know, Ramsey can score.
• 30:23
  So, Bride, that's going to be, you know, maybe the irresistible
• 30:25
  object against the immovable force here this week.
• 30:28
  Yeah, Hey, Corey, one other thing, as I mentioned earlier,
• 30:30
  right, they played Rutherford to a three O, you know, baseball
• 30:34
  score 3 O only a field goal. You know, we saw them recently.
• 30:38
  We were down at on Saturday night a week ago Saturday at
• 30:43
  Heights and we saw that Glen Rock was playing Lyndhurst and
• 30:46
  got out to a 17. Nothing in a crossover.
• 30:49
  And you know what they're they're going to be a tough team
• 30:52
  for for Ramsey to deal with. You know, they play good defense
• 30:56
  and Rams must play defense. One thing I got you got to
• 30:59
  mention and we've been talking about all season long, their
• 31:01
  quarterback at Ramsey Justice for that to come so bad with
• 31:05
  last game sometime Favada, Favada justice favada 3
• 31:10
  touchdowns in a game and a run, a late run in the fourth quarter
• 31:14
  and two touchdown passes as well.
• 31:16
  SO3TD running and two TDs passing.
• 31:19
  But he engineered their drive at the end of the game with two
• 31:22
  minutes left and took him down the field and got the game
• 31:25
  winner, You know, so you know, this is playoff hot kind of of
• 31:29
  football. You got to be able to score like
• 31:31
  Rutherford was able to score and here Ramsey's doing so, you
• 31:34
  know, good teams need to be able to answer the the opponent and
• 31:37
  score. And you know, but then again,
• 31:40
  too need to play some defense too.
• 31:42
  They know that. And I'm sure coach marks, he's
• 31:45
  all over that. He's heard it from us many times
• 31:48
  and he knows and same with coach Baird.
• 31:50
  They know they got to play some defense.
• 31:52
  So good jobs for the Rams getting up there.
• 31:55
  And you know, if they can make it through, they will have a
• 31:57
  rematch to a rego season game that they played and we were up
• 32:00
  with the game and you know, pretty competitive game.
• 32:03
  And Ramsey against Westwood and Ramsey may get another
• 32:07
  opportunity to get back at them if they can get through a very
• 32:10
  good Glen Rock team on Friday night.
• 32:12
  So that that's a good bracket. We like Group 2 seems to be a
• 32:15
  popular one or favorite one. There's a lot of teams in Bergen
• 32:17
  County in these brackets. So it seems to be catches our
• 32:21
  eye and good football. Obviously Westwood being in here
• 32:24
  and their program is being so solid the last many years and
• 32:27
  Rutherford, you just mentioned Rutherford and coached on so
• 32:30
  it's fun. The Group 2 bracket court.
• 32:32
  No doubt used to be N one Group 1 was full of all the Bergen
• 32:36
  County small schools. Now there is no geographical
• 32:39
  boundaries anymore and only three teams in that bracket as
• 32:43
  we switched to the small schools and only one area team for US1
• 32:48
  Bergen County School moving forward.
• 32:49
  Butler, the top seed and the two time reigning NJIC champion,
• 32:54
  made short work of Hawthorne 42 to 7 New Milford against Pagoda
• 32:59
  2 NJ IC rivals there so one was going to get through that.
• 33:03
  One is 4th seeded New Milford. They won at home. 3521 Kittitini
• 33:09
  in Wallkill Valley, Kittatinny. That's the other upset of the
• 33:13
  week. Kittatinny the 6th, A 12 to 7
• 33:16
  victory over Wallkill Valley and Park Ridge's season came to an
• 33:19
  end on the road 26 to 7 at Kinnelon.
• 33:24
  Jimmy, we don't have to go through game by game.
• 33:26
  The Milford's moving through. That's the only one of the local
• 33:28
  inches. But what do you got to say about
• 33:30
  North One Group 1? Well, as expected, Butler
• 33:36
  rolled. I mean, we kind of expected that
• 33:39
  Kenalon to all as well. I I did see kid attorney this
• 33:43
  year. They opened up and then a Nick
• 33:45
  del Cazo classic versus Saddlebrook.
• 33:48
  Very big team, very physical team.
• 33:52
  Not not a super surprise that they won that game over Wok
• 33:56
  Hill. But again, I think we're headed
• 34:00
  to a kid. Kenalon Butler final.
• 34:05
  The border war on Route 23, had the suburban trends still been
• 34:09
  around and had I still been the sports editor at that paper, I
• 34:13
  would be there covering it. But those days are long gone.
• 34:16
  Let's move over to North One Group.
• 34:19
  I'm sorry N Two Group 1, where Mountain Lakes, the top seed,
• 34:25
  will take on Cedar Grove, the number 4IN what's probably one
• 34:29
  of the marquee games this weekend in the small schools,
• 34:32
  New Providence ended Secaucus's season 38 to nothing as the
• 34:36
  third season, third seeded New Providence moved on where they
• 34:40
  will host Hasbrok Heights, the number two seed 4514 over rival
• 34:45
  Woodridge in a border war of its own this past weekend.
• 34:49
  Jimmy, your turn first on North Two Group 1.
• 34:54
  You know, as expected, Corey, you know what they say there,
• 34:58
  there's certain things that are guaranteed death, taxes and
• 35:02
  Mountain Lakes making a big run in the state playoffs.
• 35:05
  They they got off to a big, big start this past week.
• 35:10
  They had no problem with Bradley Regional.
• 35:13
  Cedar Grove defeated Glen Ridge the 4-5 game.
• 35:19
  You know, so you match up. You know, Cedar Grove, who's a
• 35:22
  perennial power, Mountain Lakes, a perennial power and New
• 35:27
  Providence, you know, going to Hasbro kites, Hasbro kites
• 35:32
  hosting Hasbro kites. The two seed Hasbro kites
• 35:36
  dismantled Woodridge. They really show their
• 35:40
  athleticism. That's that's certainly a game
• 35:43
  to check out. If you're into small football,
• 35:47
  group football, go down to Hasbro kites on a Friday night.
• 35:51
  New Providence, very good team so that you know that's going to
• 35:55
  be a good game as well. No doubt and I should just a
• 35:59
  quick mention from me for Glen Ridge, they were the five seed.
• 36:02
  They ended the season with A5 and four record lost 3520 on the
• 36:07
  road to Cedar Grove. Not I I don't know the flow of
• 36:09
  the game. I don't know if it was 35
• 36:10
  nothing or if it was close and you know Cedar Grove pulled it
• 36:14
  out late. Regardless.
• 36:16
  You know Glen Ridge is a team that was in the Ivy League just
• 36:18
  a couple years ago and you know say Group One school that is not
• 36:23
  a Co-op and is doing it on its own.
• 36:25
  And I know you know the feeder system is working hard and I
• 36:28
  only know that because my brother-in-law lives in Glen
• 36:30
  Ridge and both of my nephews are in it.
• 36:33
  My his 11 year old. I went to watch him play 2 weeks
• 36:36
  ago at Westwood. So you know, you can see that's
• 36:40
  where it starts at the lower levels.
• 36:41
  So just a a little tip of the cap at Glen Ridge.
• 36:44
  They're moving in the right direction.
• 36:46
  Brian, I don't know if you have anything else to say about North
• 36:48
  Two Group One. If you don't, you can.
• 36:52
  Real quick court maybe you got. To move up the break.
• 36:55
  I have something on that Hasbro kites on their game.
• 37:00
  I don't know how they did it, but they scored 38 points in the
• 37:04
  second quarter. That's a lot of points to score.
• 37:07
  I mean, they just ran, they ran, they ran a touchdown pass, 2
• 37:11
  touchdown passes or I'm sorry, 3 touchdown passes and two
• 37:14
  touchdown runs. Hey, you know, Heights seems to
• 37:17
  have their running game. We saw them, we saw them play
• 37:20
  against with the Park Ridge there a couple weeks ago and
• 37:23
  they they obviously can run very well.
• 37:26
  Hey, but congratulations to coach Carbone, Andrew Carbone
• 37:30
  the first season at Woodridge they got out, they made the semi
• 37:33
  finals in the NGIC, but then Connor just ran into a wall here
• 37:38
  with some tough competition. Rutherford Heights here, you
• 37:43
  know, congratulations on doing a have a very good season, but
• 37:47
  they look forward to heights continuing if they can keep it
• 37:49
  going. Their running game is solid.
• 37:52
  Hopefully they get through one more game and get on to playing
• 37:55
  some mountain lakes if they can get through New Providence here.
• 37:58
  Corey, you want to go on to like Group 3 next.
• 38:02
  Why don't you talk about group three, since you were there
• 38:04
  right up at Old Japan, you can talk about that one.
• 38:06
  I was there. JC Bammeler wrote the story for
• 38:09
  North Jersey sports.com and I was there in a photography only
• 38:13
  wrote and also I guess media relations.
• 38:16
  I was dealing with the athletic department administration at
• 38:19
  Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Japan.
• 38:21
  In other words, I was talking to Lorenzo Barada for most of the
• 38:25
  game and didn't get any work done, but I was there.
• 38:27
  I did take some notes and ultipan first of all, it's a
• 38:31
  rematch of a game that Ultipan won handily the first time
• 38:34
  around. You got to get, you know,
• 38:37
  Riverdale, give him some credit for starting the season O and
• 38:41
  two, including like a really eye opening loss in their season
• 38:44
  opener against Nutley and then backed up by a you know, 35
• 38:49
  seven set back against old the pen.
• 38:51
  They put together A6 game-winning streak before they
• 38:54
  ran into Westwood in a rivalry game.
• 38:56
  But I got to be honest, I mean, that was that one of the most
• 39:01
  one sided football games I've ever seen in my life.
• 39:03
  I mean, old Depend was up 37, nothing at halftime.
• 39:06
  They didn't punt. They scored every time they had
• 39:08
  the ball. It was running clock for the
• 39:11
  entire second-half. And as I told you guys before we
• 39:13
  came on here, the game started promptly at six.
• 39:16
  PMI was home by 7:50, home from a state playoff football game,
• 39:23
  One hour and 50 minutes. I mean, it just looked like
• 39:26
  Riverdale couldn't wait to get on the bus.
• 39:28
  And I, I know DJ Nymphius, we've had him on the show here a
• 39:31
  zillion times. I'm a huge fan of his and I love
• 39:35
  his approach to football. I mean, talk about a guy that's
• 39:39
  all in he he was looking for a consolation game opponent for
• 39:44
  this week from, you know, the jump.
• 39:48
  So Riverdale, the season ain't over because DJ Envy says it
• 39:52
  ain't They're going to play on Thursday off for the teachers
• 39:56
  convention. They're going to host one of
• 39:58
  those Newark public schools on Thursday and close out the
• 40:01
  season hopefully in a better fashion than on Friday night.
• 40:03
  It says two things. It says that, you know,
• 40:05
  Riverdale was kind of outclassed, and it also says
• 40:08
  that once again, and amazingly, old Japan is the class of Group
• 40:13
  3 in North Jersey. And we'll see how far they go,
• 40:16
  but. Crazy the year they put together
• 40:19
  and then the other side of the bracket, how the mighty have
• 40:23
  fallen. Was Pascag Valley a sectional
• 40:25
  champion last year? They won.
• 40:28
  One of the most impressive victories of the season was
• 40:32
  Pascag Valley and the opening week going down, winning on the
• 40:35
  roof at Union City. It's been all downhill from
• 40:38
  there. They lost, you know, some very
• 40:41
  talented players to injury. The new coaching staff didn't
• 40:46
  seem to mesh well with what was left.
• 40:49
  There was a mass exodus of coaches, and Pascag Valley's
• 40:52
  season is over after a 3534 loss in excruciating fashion on the
• 40:59
  road at Passaic Valley. And then Wayne Hills bounced
• 41:02
  back from its loss to Old Japan and knows to pass Florida.
• 41:06
  So in in some ways there's remnants of the old N one Group
• 41:10
  3 there when you see Wayne Hills at the bottom of the bracket and
• 41:13
  Pascack Valley in it or whatever.
• 41:15
  But then you see Old Japan at the top.
• 41:17
  Congratulations to West Milford for a good win at home against
• 41:21
  Montville. I It's that circled as a
• 41:22
  potential upset game this past week.
• 41:26
  Jimmy, what's a what what I miss on North One group.
• 41:28
  Three well, you know, first of all, core last week I made a
• 41:31
  statement that no, you know, I I don't see anybody in that
• 41:36
  section that could be Ultopan and I I certainly didn't do with
• 41:41
  the degrade any of the teams. I mean, they were all having
• 41:44
  good years, but I just as we've seen so far, ultimate of Pan has
• 41:49
  been the the class of that group.
• 41:52
  They've been the most consistent team from the first game all the
• 41:55
  way through, you know, a good win for West Milford.
• 41:59
  It was a struggling program, a winless program, you know, you
• 42:04
  not too long ago and and they're in a semifinal, which is great
• 42:08
  for them. You know, you mentioned Passaic
• 42:10
  Valley, the Hornets with a, with a rich tradition in the in the
• 42:14
  Sixties, 70s and 80s that, you know, they beat Pascack Valley.
• 42:19
  They kicked an extra point late in the game to win it.
• 42:22
  And Wayne Hills, they hold on a 2 point conversion beat the
• 42:26
  seven seeds Sparta. That's a great game.
• 42:30
  So you know, I think we're looking at a Wayne Hills old
• 42:35
  Japan rematch in the final. And you know, let's hope, you
• 42:40
  know, they were able to score some on Old Japan, but you know,
• 42:44
  old Japan scored 47. So you know it's going to, it's
• 42:48
  going to be an interesting interesting the way it plays
• 42:53
  out. It's not going to be
• 42:54
  interesting, but anyway, go ahead Bry.
• 42:56
  Anything you want to say about North One Group 3?
• 42:59
  Hey, one other thing on Pascack Valley there, they they were in
• 43:03
  the game and they gave up a touchdown late and they lost,
• 43:07
  you know, they lost by less than 7 points.
• 43:09
  So they were in it. But just, you know, they're
• 43:12
  they're down. And I'm not sure how many guys
• 43:14
  were actually out. But yeah, like Jimmy said, you
• 43:17
  know, I think old Japan is, you know, heading to through that
• 43:20
  section and you know what's ahead.
• 43:22
  And I think on the other side of the bracket and N to Group 3 is
• 43:27
  a familiar foe, the Wolfpack from out in Long Valley West.
• 43:32
  Morris W Morris took care of business they had.
• 43:35
  Snyder had to take a little bit of a road trip out Route 80 from
• 43:37
  Jersey City and. Got a 42 nothing 42 to 6.
• 43:43
  Kind of a smacking by the Wolfpack.
• 43:46
  They will go on to play Roxbury, who was the four seed, a 4-5
• 43:50
  gate. Roxbury had a tough game against
• 43:52
  Cranford, 2112 game against good Cranford team so that's and then
• 43:58
  the other side there too. Jimmy's mentioned before about
• 44:01
  Hanover Park playing W Essex, you got W Essex on the other
• 44:05
  side, the three seed. They handled Mendham quite well,
• 44:09
  24 to 6. They will take on Summit a
• 44:12
  Summit who played a very competitive game against Warren
• 44:15
  Hills. 1/24/21 So we've got 1234 here in this bracket.
• 44:21
  W Morris says we like those guys, but hey, don't count W
• 44:25
  Essex out because they're a very good team in there and a good
• 44:28
  program. And I think only a couple of
• 44:31
  their losses were to Ulta Pan the last two years, this year
• 44:34
  and last year. So W Essex has been battle
• 44:37
  tested and there'll be a challenge in there.
• 44:39
  So, but these programs seem to be continuing.
• 44:42
  You know, the West Woods, the Ulta Pans, the West Morris, W
• 44:47
  Essex, these are teams that we've heard these names for the
• 44:49
  last five years. They're always fighting for a
• 44:51
  sectional or state championship corn.
• 44:54
  No doubt Jimmy, anything else to add?
• 44:56
  But I've already moved on to North One Group 4.
• 44:59
  Yeah, you know, the wolf Wolf Pack and and dominating fashion.
• 45:04
  I think we're all looking forward to to possibly another
• 45:07
  role to pan W Mars game, but they still have work to do.
• 45:13
  No doubt. And then in North One Group 4
• 45:15
  top seeded Ramapo 35 nothing over Hackensack and Jimmy before
• 45:18
  you were saying that Becton it's enrollment has swelled since
• 45:23
  absorbing the Maywood kids. Meanwhile, Hackensack, which
• 45:26
  lost the Maywood kids, has moved down to four.
• 45:29
  It could help this time as Ramapo 35 nothing, Wayne Valley
• 45:34
  20 to 7 over Chatham. Mount Olive rolled over Nutley
• 45:38
  40 to nothing and Highlands 4228 over Morris Knowles.
• 45:41
  Morris Knowles, a defending state sectional champion from
• 45:44
  last year. Was that right?
• 45:47
  No. Was that, was that Ramapo
• 45:50
  Morris? That was the section final.
• 45:52
  It wasn't the state section, right.
• 45:55
  So Morris knows last year played one of the greatest games that
• 45:58
  we've, all the three of us were. Yeah.
• 46:02
  That we were together to see at the same time.
• 46:04
  So that was a great one. But their season is over.
• 46:07
  And again, it's 1234. Ramapo, Wayne Valley, Mount
• 46:11
  Olive, Northern Highlands. Jimmy.
• 46:13
  Yeah, Ramapo took care of Hackensack, but it's heck of
• 46:17
  time of the season pretty easily.
• 46:19
  Now they'll have Wayne Valley. Brian and myself were at the
• 46:23
  first game that that Ramapo pretty much dominated.
• 46:28
  They held the Wayne Valley without a first down in that
• 46:31
  game until about just under 4 minutes in the second quarter.
• 46:35
  So we'll get a rematch for that. And you know, Mount Olive is a
• 46:39
  team that we've been, we've been looking at against Northern
• 46:42
  Highlands I that, that is one of the premier games this week.
• 46:47
  You know, I know the Highlands wants to get desperately another
• 46:50
  shot at Ramapo, but Mount Olive is going to be a very, very
• 46:55
  tough competitor to beat. And if Mount Olive wins a state
• 46:59
  sectional title, it would really have run the gauntlet when you
• 47:03
  got to beat, you know, we've we've said all year there's the
• 47:06
  three best teams or the three good teams in Bergen County have
• 47:10
  been Old Fan Rampo in Northern Highlands.
• 47:12
  And to win Mount Olive would have to beat two of those 3.
• 47:16
  So if they win it, they're going to earn it because we know Rampo
• 47:18
  is good. We know Highlands is good.
• 47:20
  Brian, anything to add there or would you like to move on?
• 47:24
  Hey, Mount Olive, real quick on Mount Olive that I think that
• 47:27
  was my pick in the brackets last week.
• 47:30
  Mount Olive, their only loss or 8:00 and 1:00 their only loss is
• 47:33
  due very, very close game back and forth, only 1613 very low
• 47:41
  scoring game. So you know, they're they're
• 47:44
  battle tested at Mount Olive should be a great game.
• 47:48
  And you know, I think Northern Highlands, they got to get their
• 47:51
  running game going and mixed in a little bit of passing because
• 47:55
  if they get to 1 dimensional like Old Japan, kind of cut them
• 47:59
  back and they weren't able to run consistently against Old
• 48:02
  Japan. That's kind of.
• 48:04
  A little bit of their Achilles heel, but once they get that
• 48:07
  ground game going, they can pound it because they got some
• 48:10
  big kids up front. So I haven't seen Mount Olive
• 48:12
  live, but that that would be a great game to go to Two very
• 48:16
  good teams should be, you know, very competitive game.
• 48:20
  And obviously, you know, I'm sure northern islands would like
• 48:23
  to go and play Ramapo in the final in that section.
• 48:26
  So it's should be exciting on the other side of that bracket.
• 48:30
  On the other side of that bracket is another this one has
• 48:34
  it's not a 1234, it's A1235 on the bracket and the favorite up
• 48:39
  top is Phillipsburg easily won against Newark Central 5514.
• 48:47
  The other things we really don't know them that well in this
• 48:50
  bracket got Colonia played Ridge close game 20.
• 48:54
  The 19 colonial Colonia will play Phillipsburg on Friday
• 48:58
  night. On the other the other two games
• 49:01
  was Montgomery against Westfield.
• 49:02
  Montgomery took care of that 3210 and then the other one was
• 49:06
  Woodbridge. We haven't seen a lot of them,
• 49:08
  but been consistently a strong program there at Woodbridge and
• 49:13
  they won 21 seven to set up the you know the so you got filled
• 49:17
  for a Colonia and then Montgomery and Woodbridge a
• 49:21
  little out of the area, you know, all teams pretty much out
• 49:24
  of our area. We don't really follow those
• 49:27
  guys too much, but we do late in the season we do get to catch
• 49:31
  on. I guess we can go into Group 5,
• 49:34
  right North Group 5, which you know, it's.
• 49:38
  That's. Kind of, you know, we it's a
• 49:41
  little bit of a, a down year. I mean, West Orange right now,
• 49:45
  number one seed. Their number one is due to
• 49:49
  beating East Orange. Who's the three seed?
• 49:52
  They took care of Passaic, 45-6. On the other side, Ridgewood
• 49:58
  took on Livingston. Livingston, they have a big
• 50:00
  runner there. I think we could go.
• 50:01
  We had like 3 almost 3400 yards. They're running.
• 50:04
  Back. How about how about 522 yards?
• 50:09
  I can't even walk 522 yards in a little run for it.
• 50:14
  So he had three, He had 200. Able, Paul 2. 100.
• 50:18
  And 82 yards rushing against Ridgewood and Ridgewood usually
• 50:23
  does that to other people here. Here they've got run, run, run.
• 50:29
  So Livingston will go and have to go over to West Orange and
• 50:32
  play them on the other side of the bracket.
• 50:34
  You got East Orange took care of Bluefield easily.
• 50:37
  I think they played them early in the year.
• 50:39
  And then Morristown, you asked him earlier today.
• 50:41
  Morristown played PCTI, Passaic Tech and PCTI able to win that
• 50:46
  41, eight. Originally that was supposed to
• 50:49
  be on Thursday night and they moved it to Friday because of
• 50:51
  the weather. That would have been a possible
• 50:53
  game to go to if it wasn't bad weather last Thursday night, but
• 50:57
  so we didn't get to see that. So you now have A1234 on this.
• 51:01
  You go West Orange against Livingston and then East Orange
• 51:04
  will play host. Well, no East Orange will go to
• 51:08
  PCTI in the 2 three-game there at six O clock up there in Wayne
• 51:14
  up on the hill. That should be a good match up.
• 51:16
  Big kids, lot of talent, lot of skill.
• 51:20
  The Jaguars and coach John Jacob, they've been, you know,
• 51:24
  riding high up there. They've a lot of talent.
• 51:26
  Now it's about coming together there in that Group 5 bracket.
• 51:31
  Maybe Jimmy wants to jump in, but I want I want to mention on
• 51:35
  the other side of the bracket and then in the Section 2 is my
• 51:38
  Alma moderate number one seed. They won and it's Linden and
• 51:42
  they're going to play Union City who played Irvington.
• 51:45
  It was a close game. I heard 2114 up on the roof.
• 51:48
  Union City was able to come out with the wind and hope my
• 51:51
  Panthers at Bridgewater can take care of that and it'll be a big,
• 51:57
  big match up there. They played on the other side.
• 51:59
  Number two seed is Piscataway. They play them during a year
• 52:03
  Bridgewater and beat them. Scadaway will host they own and
• 52:06
  the bees. We don't hear they own too much,
• 52:09
  but they will host fail and the Bees who the Bayonne bees seven
• 52:14
  and three and you know they haven't done very well against
• 52:18
  Scadaway. Last year they played them and
• 52:20
  Scadaway won that pretty handily 42 to 13.
• 52:23
  But you know, Bayonne is on a right now 4 game-winning streak.
• 52:27
  You know, Scadaway same way pretty solid.
• 52:30
  Scadaway's been winning handily in their game.
• 52:32
  So they're going to have some work to do with the Bees.
• 52:35
  And so hope Bridgewater Scadaway would be a nice match up there
• 52:39
  in that bracket in the Group 5. To North core.
• 52:43
  Jimmy, anything else to add? I mean, other than what what
• 52:46
  Brian said, I mean. Yeah, I, I, I think that the,
• 52:50
  the North One Group 5 is going to come down to the rematch, the
• 52:53
  West Orange and Bryan's East Orange.
• 52:57
  I think that was. A That was a 1413 game for West
• 53:03
  Orange the first time, so I think we're heading to a
• 53:06
  rematch. All right, well, we will next
• 53:09
  week. We'll take a peek at our
• 53:11
  brackets. I had them all saved.
• 53:12
  I wrote down our picks last week.
• 53:13
  But I mean, for yeah, we didn't lose much this week other than
• 53:16
  my beloved Morristown going out, bowing out, which I'm very upset
• 53:19
  about. I mean, you know, I thought a
• 53:21
  team that snuck into the playoffs by beating Eastside and
• 53:25
  Clifton during the season, I thought they would have a good
• 53:27
  run in them. I'm surprised that they were run
• 53:32
  out 41 to 8. And it just it still blows my
• 53:34
  mind that Morristown, which was two and seven in the regular
• 53:40
  season with A1 win over winless Clifton and it's other win
• 53:45
  coming against two and seven Randolph somehow found their way
• 53:50
  in. They just want to remind people
• 53:52
  that we don't need 5 brackets. We don't have enough teams to
• 53:55
  fill good teams to fill 5 brackets.
• 53:57
  And also with the lone exception being in the Group 2 bracket
• 54:02
  where the six and seven seed won.
• 54:04
  We could have just started the playoffs this week with 1234
• 54:08
  just about everywhere and really looked forward to it and have
• 54:11
  had competitive games all the way through without starting the
• 54:16
  season in the middle of August and maybe even continuing
• 54:19
  Thanksgiving Day tradition. So let's just not lose sight of
• 54:23
  the fact that a lot of this is unnecessary and we could have
• 54:26
  started right here and had great run to the playoffs to the
• 54:30
  section finals. Anyway, that's the little
• 54:32
  soapbox portion. The other news, Jimmy, take it
• 54:35
  away. The big boys, they start their
• 54:39
  state sectional tournament runs this week if the seedings came
• 54:43
  out on Sunday. So you being our resident big
• 54:47
  boy expert, what do you got? Well, you know, you talk about
• 54:53
  non public a they actually all have a bye week this week or it
• 54:58
  is only. 18 Well, they got their they got their matchups this
• 55:01
  week. Yeah, Bosco is the one seed they
• 55:04
  will take on #8 Seton Hall prep #5 Saint Joe's McCutcheon, who
• 55:11
  was undefeated, who lost this week, has to go into Bergen.
• 55:15
  Being Catholic A-Team, who I assume will be ready to go for
• 55:19
  the playoffs #3 Saint Joe's on Montvale, who has really picked
• 55:25
  it up the last three or four weeks, will be hosting the Green
• 55:29
  Wave of Del Barton, the six seed and the number two seed that
• 55:33
  Saint Peter's Prep will host the seven seed Saint Augustine Prep.
• 55:37
  I know there's been a lot of not controversy, but talk.
• 55:41
  Why did Saint Peter's get 2 seed?
• 55:44
  Well, let's remember they did did beat Saint Joe's.
• 55:47
  They did not play the, they did not play Bergen Catholic and
• 55:52
  Saint Joe's did be Bergen Catholic.
• 55:54
  So I, I really don't have a problem with those four.
• 55:57
  Those are the premium teams. You're going to have to win.
• 56:01
  You're going to have to win two big games no matter which way
• 56:04
  it's paired up. So, you know, I think, and I
• 56:07
  think they've done the right thing.
• 56:09
  They've gone to the committee instead of PowerPoints.
• 56:13
  Those are the top four teams. Obviously Bosco was the
• 56:16
  unanimous #1 now we have none. Public B, which will start this
• 56:22
  week #1 de Paul and #2 Paramus Catholic, who had a big win this
• 56:27
  previous week over Del Barton. They beat him 353421.
• 56:33
  Del Barton had beat the Paul the week before.
• 56:36
  So that's solidified. Paramus Catholic as the two
• 56:39
  seed. You know, I think the way the
• 56:41
  bracket would come out, the three seed would be Red Bank
• 56:44
  Catholic, which it was, and the fourth seed will be Donovan
• 56:48
  Catholic. So you know, Paramus Catholic.
• 56:52
  The pull up buys this week. All right, Brian, anything to
• 56:57
  add in the big boys? I mean, I, I, you know, Jimmy.
• 57:00
  No. No, Jimmy, you'll get another
• 57:03
  really, one more week. You have a little bit of games
• 57:06
  this week and then really starts going.
• 57:09
  Next week is really where we're going to get in.
• 57:13
  Yeah. One thing I got to say though,
• 57:15
  Bosco really took care of business.
• 57:17
  By the way, this week they played Saint Peter's, who's the
• 57:20
  number two seed and they just, you know, it was 31 nothing
• 57:27
  early in the third quarter and they put took out the starter.
• 57:29
  So Bosco looks like the team to beat right now.
• 57:33
  So but here we are. We're in the second season.
• 57:35
  One other thing we got to mention, we were talking about
• 57:37
  early in the show, Bergen quarterback having a really good
• 57:41
  year. They beat Cedar Hall prep up in
• 57:45
  West Orange. I guess that is right, West
• 57:47
  Orange and the quarterback at Bergen, Trey Taglia Ferry, we
• 57:52
  were mentioned that earlier, almost 2000 yards passing, 24
• 57:57
  touchdowns, only one interception.
• 57:59
  So you know, looks like he's getting it in gear.
• 58:03
  Hey Corey, Before we forget, there was a couple other teams
• 58:06
  that had some good end of year excitement.
• 58:10
  They are three teams I've got written down from the NGIC and
• 58:14
  we were there on Wednesday night.
• 58:16
  They moved that game at over in Saddlebrook.
• 58:19
  It's our second game we've been to in the last three weeks and
• 58:22
  Joey Katrona and the Falcons of Saddlebrook were able to take on
• 58:27
  the Tenafly Tigers kind of close early, but the Falcons and I was
• 58:32
  we were talking about before, scored three touchdowns in three
• 58:37
  offensive plays. Their first three offensive
• 58:39
  plays, 3 touchdowns, all you know, for a lot of scrimmage, no
• 58:42
  touchdowns, no, no, no pick sixes, interceptions, fumble
• 58:45
  recovers. It was just offensive plays and
• 58:47
  up 20 to 7 and then cruised out. Final 47.
• 58:52
  It was the seniors there. Congratulations to those kids.
• 58:54
  The kids you know, during the regular season didn't win.
• 58:57
  Now they've won their last three games to end the season.
• 59:00
  Nick Vidiello, Jay as I don't know how to say Jay's last name
• 59:05
  and then Dylan the running back. All three had great games plus
• 59:10
  almost 150 yards each either throwing, passing, running and
• 59:14
  and lots of touchdowns. Quarterback at 3 touchdowns,
• 59:17
  running back at one and Jayden had two T DS.
• 59:21
  But you know, great job on those guys.
• 59:23
  The other thing they mentioned too, Garfield went on to be 5
• 59:27
  and five. They beat Clifton first time
• 59:31
  they beaten Clifton. I know the first time they've
• 59:34
  been five and five since 2020. Big game for their running back
• 59:40
  Rodriguez, the quarterback did very well and also Jimmy's
• 59:44
  hometown team. The lowdown Rams had their first
• 59:47
  win of the year and they beat Cliffside Park 20 to 14 and they
• 59:52
  snapped A13 game losing streak. Did a kickoff return for a
• 59:56
  touchdown and then they had a pick six in the fourth quarter.
• 59:59
  So a couple of special teams and a defensive score helped them.
• 1:00:04
  The Rams get to victory. So, you know, hopefully that
• 1:00:07
  springs them. Into next year and getting more
• 1:00:10
  kids to come out to the team and getting the win.
• 1:00:13
  Hey, before I forget one of the things since I'm here Ivy League
• 1:00:16
  final, we didn't talk about the Fort Lee Bridgeman 9 and O.
• 1:00:22
  I'm not sure how many years it's been since they were nine and O,
• 1:00:25
  but I hear many, many years or ever they've never been 9 and O.
• 1:00:29
  So they got their Super football Ivy Division title and a
• 1:00:34
  thrilling 2725 victory over Richfield Park.
• 1:00:38
  Were there early in the year. We saw a regular season.
• 1:00:40
  Game it was. 50 to 40. So a little bit lower.
• 1:00:43
  Scoring but the normal suspects here for Fort Lee, Luke Sanatori
• 1:00:47
  rushing for over 100 yards, 2 touchdowns and threw a touchdown
• 1:00:51
  to Jacob Greenberg, another one of the guys and then CJ
• 1:00:55
  Sanatori, the brother. He had 88 yards running and a
• 1:00:58
  touchdown and helped them to a lead and they held on late.
• 1:01:01
  I was a Hail Mary at the very end and Richfield Park wasn't
• 1:01:06
  able to convert that and the game ended with a Hail Mary at
• 1:01:10
  the end zone, the ball in the end zone.
• 1:01:11
  So congratulations to the Bridgeman and coach and AD Mike
• 1:01:17
  Rafferty over there and good luck.
• 1:01:19
  Congratulations and continued success to Fort Lee and the Ivy,
• 1:01:23
  Corey. Yes and all those guys you
• 1:01:25
  mentioned Fort Lee's having a nice run of athletes all those
• 1:01:29
  kids that you mentioned as being part of this football season 9
• 1:01:32
  and O also part of their baseball program last year when
• 1:01:36
  they were the only team to give Bosco a run in the Bergen County
• 1:01:39
  tournament and probably should have won that game.
• 1:01:42
  They were up 1 nothing in the 7th inning so and then Bosco
• 1:01:44
  went on to just smoke everybody else on the way to the Bergen
• 1:01:47
  County championship. So Fort Lee's in a good groove
• 1:01:50
  for sure athletically. And when that comes along, you
• 1:01:53
  have to grab it and ride it. For what it's worth, I did hear
• 1:01:58
  somewhere that the Ivy League is going to expand to 18 teams next
• 1:02:01
  year. And despite the best efforts of
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  the powers that be, you, when you sign up for the Ivy League,
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  you forgo any chance to make the state playoffs.
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  So with more teams, I don't even know how many teams applied.
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  I think 18 are going to be accepted.
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  So if if some were denied and we're upwards of about 20 teams
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  looking to get into the Ivy League, I just don't know why
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  people don't see the writing on the wall of which way this is
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  going and why we continue to move things the way that they
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  are going. Because it's going in the
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  opposite direction of where the powers that be think it's going.
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  More people want it to the egg and they don't care about the
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  state playoffs because they can have fun, start later, have
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  less, you know, scheduling and all and all this craziness and
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  play a championship game that their entire towns are going to
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  fall, turn out for instead of driving to, you know, whoever
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  knows where they play the game in North Bergen.
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  Everybody can get to it. And people are pumped up about
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  local high school football. It it's just it's mind boggling
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  to me that the Super Football Conference prioritizes the Super
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  Football Conference network over local extracurricular activity.
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  High school football again. I'm on my soapbox.
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  I will get on it again next week on the Football Show.
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  Follow the leader.