Muda69

You just literally described a logically different game.

Clinton Prairie 21, Frankfort 0 Final Looks like another 0-10 season for the Hot Dogs is a real possibility as they start conference play next week.

Clinton Prairie intercepts a Frankfort pass, runs it back for a touchdown. Gophers 21, Frankfort 0 7:30 left in the 4th quarter.

Gophers run it down the Hot Dogs throat to start the 2nd half. Clinton Prairie 14, Frankfort 0 5:30 left in the 3rd quarter.

Clinton Prairie 7, Frankfort 0 Halftime

How are these 8-man games currently officiated? Are the refs members of the IFOA? Are a lot of them also IHSAA licensed officials, doing 8-man games "on the side"?

I thought ESPN was already the SEC Network?

Ok. Call me when the IHSAA officially recognizes 8-man tackle football and run a tournament.

Bringing in the Big Guns: Roger Goodell provides latest twist in Bears' Hammond stadium saga https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2026/08/26/bears-stadium-roger-goodell-meets-with-illinois-lawmakers-as-bears-weigh-hammond-move/91484315007/ Meh, Mr. Goodell is interested in the new stadium primarily from a "can it host a Super Bowl?" perspective. And since this will be for a major market team it will have to have certain things, like a dome or retractable roof. That is why the new stadium boondoggle in Buffalo was able to be built without a dome or retractable roof. Buffalo is too small a market to ever host a Super Bowl.

justafootballguy brought up Rossville, not I. A concerted effort to bring 11-man tackle football to Rossville as a JV/Varsity sport was made about 10 years ago. Organizers had even spun up a youth team, not affiliated with the school corporation, with the hope that once the school board saw there was sufficient interest they would ultimately approve a proposal. Well, that was shot down by the board and the youth team quietly folded not long afterwards. So the community did have the opportunity to decide for themselves, through their duly elected school board representatives. And their decision was NO.

This response tells me all I needed to know about an individual who thinks tackle football and wrestling are similar sports.

Probably. But apples/oranges.

No. Are you? But I have several friends and acquaintances who are members of the "Rossville community". And I can tell you from discussions with them over the years regarding Hornet athletics that tackle football, at any level, has the proverbial "snowballs chance in hell " of ever becoming reality.

I think I'm changing my pick to Tippecanoe Valley. The small town of Akron is in that school district, and Akron has Jonesy's Junction, home of the best BPT in the state (at least until the end of August when it is set to close. 😞 )

No, not when a co-op arrangement with Clinton Central to the East or heck, Faith Christian to the West, makes the superior 11-man man game another best option.