The final drive 🚗 down the field Friday night by the Carroll County football team would have made Joe Montana proud. The effort might have been lost in the fact that it ended two feet shy of the end zone but not to me. At the end of the night 🌙 Carroll County had slipped to 1-2 on the season and that took me back to Year #1 of our efforts with the Carroll County Sports Report.
That season I attended all 10 games on the schedule and watched with a great deal of appreciation for the effort put forth week in and week out. The team finished up at 2-8 and I wrote a story calling them the best 2-8 team in history.
Yes, there was two games that they couldn’t stay competitive in but the other EIGHT were still in doubt on the final play. They are coached well and they play hard ! Here’s hoping for a positive outcome Friday night in Wytheville…
Lucas Dalton overheard me talking after Softball practice Monday night about my Love 💓 for all things Duke University Football. He quick wittely said I had grown accustomed to being on the wrong end of a final score – this was and is very true but it doesn’t change how I feel about the team or the school.
While I don’t have a direct connection to our Football team, only because I am trying to elevate other Cavalier teams to that level, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have a fan on Friday nights.
I see our Point Guard / Sprinter in the backfield along side one of our many colorful Wrestlers. This week I met our Quarterbacks Father 👨 while working up at Omega. I love how the community wraps itself around the program.
Switching over to Craig Worrell 👏. Anyone that reads my stuff knows how much I appreciate 🙏 Alan Worrell and the Carroll News. In order of difficulty with myself, Alan & Craig it looks like this –
EASY – is getting to pick the topic and length of every story and have unlimited space. This is what allows me to head across the street at 4pm and write about a JV Golf ⛳ match. I am 100% Carroll County and don’t have to hide it.
KINDA HARD – Our friend Alan Worrell is just as much of a HOMER as me but he is limited to how much space he can give a topic when it comes to what appears in his Carroll News.
INSANITY – Craig Worrell has a nearly impossible job as he is required to equally cover Sports for Galax, Carroll County and Grayson County. So not only does he have to spread the Love across all of the Sports but he has to do it 3 times over.
The football game on Friday is a perfect example – I wrote about the spirit of the game and the effort our players displayed.
Alan wrote a story from a Carroll County High point of view and did a very nice job with it.
Craig was tasked with writing ✍ a story that would not alienate either fan base. He did just that!
The three Bears 🐻 of local Sports writing ✍. Last night I had the rare opportunity to be holding a microphone🎤 in a room where the Non-Brother Worrells were covering the event I was announcing. When you hear me applaud 👏 their efforts as I did last night 🌙 please know that is in Genuine Respect.
Closing thought to our Football program – if anyone wants to take the time to share some insight into the program I’m fairly easy to spot as I’m pretty sure that I am the only one rotating thru a set of 32 NHL jerseys. Speaking of which, I am looking forward to fall when the sweaters (actual name for them) will become useful.
A.S.P.N on The Hill 