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From: MSN NicknameScott·  (Original Message)Sent: 11/28/2007 7:09 AM
Does anyone keep up with how your local High School football team is doing? The local team here (where my youngest son is a freshman) went undefeated until the 2nd round of the playoffs when they met the team that won the State championship last year and wound up losing a close game. Our team is usually one of the best in the state, having won the State championship 5 out the last 10 years and has been the #1 team in the U.S. twice in the last 10. This year we were ranked #7 in the nation going into the final game  ESPN has been filming them since August for a show called "Varsity Inc." that will be airing this Thursday night on ESPN2. Here is a link to the preview of the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMRGVKVdie4
They did a lot of filming around town following the players as they went about their day to day activities along with the Football games and practices. They have had about 20 different cameras filming the games. It is supposed to be similar to that show that was on MTV called "Two a days" about a High School team in Hoover, Alabama.  Anyone interested in seeing what life is like in the small southern town where I live, tune in and catch this show if you can. We usually have over 15,000 fans show up at the home games and usually half that many at the away games. We have more people "tailgating" than most college games..lol Here's another link to an article on the USA Today's website where we were voted one of the ten best places to watch a High School game.


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From: MSN Nickname-Jonsey-Sent: 12/11/2008 4:19 PM
Allen is head JV coach at Centennial High and last year the team won 1 game..this year in their league they were 5-2 so his first year was a winning season.  It really got the kids pumped up to play Varsity.

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From: MSN Nickname·BubuSent: 12/11/2008 4:42 PM
WOOHOO! Great news  Jonesy, I am happy for Allen. That is a real feather in his cap too.

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From: MSN NicknameSmitty°Sent: 12/12/2008 2:22 AM
Jonesy, I am so proud just seeing how proud you are of Allen!  You are amazing yourself, even if you are rain and now probably snow soaked by now!  I am glad to know Steve's older sister!

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From: MSN NicknameScott·Sent: 12/12/2008 3:42 AM
Our School is the West Monroe Rebels.
This link will tell you a lot about our School.
 
 
This article was done back in '01. Our stadium now seats over 20,000 and is usually packed  most games.
 
Evangel Christian School is located in Shreveport, La. which is about 80 miles from here. They always have an excellent football program and usually "play up" in classification against much larger schools. They are classified as a 1A I believe and they used to play against us in 5A but they dropped back to 3A a couple of seasons ago. There are less than 300 students in the school and they dress out about 80 on the football team. It is a private school and there are Doctors, Lawyers, etc. that "sponsor" kids from underprivledged areas by paying the tuition for them to attend that school. The public schools teams have to use the kids in their assigned district to field their teams. It's kinda like a High School playing against a College team when you play them.
 
Congrats to your son on the winning season!  Both of your kids are making a big difference in a lot of kids lives. You done good Jonsey! 

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From: MSN Nickname-Jonsey-Sent: 12/12/2008 11:46 AM
OMG...Allen would kill to be part of a stellar program like that.  I can't imagine being at one of those games.  Don't you have a son Scott?  Are you grooming him for football and did you play?

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From: MSN Nickname-Jonsey-Sent: 12/12/2008 11:50 AM
I just read your first post and saw that you have a son that's a freshman.  You also must be a very proud dad!!  As I said, unbelievable to have 14 to 20,000 at a highschool game..Are schools are lucky to have 200.  Amazing, I would love it.

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From: MSN Nickname-Jonsey-Sent: 12/12/2008 2:38 PM
Allen knows of your school and says there's a lot of great talent that comes out of it.

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From: MSN NicknameScott·Sent: 12/13/2008 12:03 AM
There are a few players from our school that are currently in the NFL. Bradie James with the Cowboys and Andrew Whitworth of the Bengals are two of them.
My son would love to play but he realizes that he isn't quite good enough to be able to get much playing time and he said he'd rather watch from the stands than from the sideline so if that works for him it works for me.
I never got the chance to play High School Football. The small school I went to (about 350) only got their first JV team my senior year and the first varsity team the year after I graduated. I did play varsity Baseball and Basketball though.
There's a kid from a school about 30 miles from here that is awesome! He is ranked #1 in the nation on some poles. his name is Rueben Randle and he is a wide reciever. He is being highly recruited by a lot of universities, It looks like he's leaning toward going to Alabama so that will make Smitty happy! This kid will one day be a star in the pros.

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From: MSN NicknameSàndy·Sent: 12/13/2008 12:31 PM
Wow Scott!  That is great news!  Team spirit is certainly alive and well in West Monroe, LA!  It's great to hear about a community that stands behind it's team the way yours does.  Good luck to them in the game today!!

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From: MSN NicknameScott·Sent: 12/15/2008 5:09 AM
Well it didn't turn out quite like I had hoped it would. It was a defensive battle throughout the first three quarters. It was almost the beginning of the second quarter before either team finally made a first down. Our team kicked a field goal with seconds to go in the first half so we led 3-0 at the half. Finally in the 4th quarter they had a wide receiver push off of our defender and caught a pass for a touchdown but the officials didn't call pass interference. The score was 3-7 at that point. With about 2 minutes left in the 4th quarter we were on the 12 yard line threatening to score when the receiver slipped and fell down and the linebacker intercepted it and ran it all the way back (98 yards) for a touchdown. Final score ended up 3-14

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From: MSN NicknameScott·Sent: 12/15/2008 5:19 AM
Oh yeah, Jonsey, tell your son that Evangel Christian Academy took a thumping on Fri night. They lost 35-14

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From: MSN Nickname-Jonsey-Sent: 12/15/2008 12:19 PM
Will do Scott.

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From: MSN NicknameSàndy·Sent: 12/15/2008 12:21 PM
Oh no Scott!!  I'm sorry they lost, but they sure had a great year to be proud of!! 

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From: MSN Nickname-Jonsey-Sent: 12/16/2008 9:39 PM
Not highschool but a great story.  This is what our Ducks are made of
 

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From: MSN NicknameScott·Sent: 12/17/2008 4:20 AM
That's a neat story Jonsey. That is tough when something like that happens to someone so young.
That is the same type tumor that my Mother-in-law had. This story is the first time that I have ever heard of it travelling beyond the brain when it reoccurs though. It can reappear in other areas of the brain but of all the research I've done and read, they say that a Gioblastoma Multiforme never travels to other parts of body as other types of cancer often do. 

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