TOPS1435
12-19-2004, 01:54 AM
What a heart stopping, magnificant championship game! How fortunate we were with the weather: December cool but otherwise perfect.
No one seem to have a significant injury, and both teams played their hearts out.
Jasper mounted a heroic attack in the second half, closed some of the doors left open for the Gilmer offense during the first half, and they kept on coming, and coming, and coming.....
Moye is good, and you are going to enjoy him for the next 2 years!!! but it is Patton and Malone who I keep seeing in my second half photos. Bronson had his share too.
After throwing only 10 interceptions in 15 games, I wondered if you were going to break Manuel Johnson's heart with those 3 interceptions. That's when I really kept seeing Patton.
But then Manuel combined with his house mate, Tay Bowser, for that critical 4th quarter route which Tay turned into our final score. He was bloodied but not out.
I know from the stands it probably looked like the Bulldog crossed the goal from I was standing at the goal line, and it looked like he came to rest about 6" to a foot shy of the white line. Sorry.
As far as the pass interference call, it looked from the other side as if your guy was draped all over ours before the ball got there. When things are so close, our eyes play tricks on us, and we can see what we want to see.....
What brought tears to my eyes as I drove home was the force of the Gilmer crowd in the 4th quarter. In 1981, there were parents in the stand booing our boys because they were behind. 20 points were scored in that game in 1:22 and otherwise it was a 6-3 game. Jasper almost had a spell like that in the first half.
At our Thursday pep rally there was a letter telling the boys that An Army of Buckeyes would be supporting them, Buckeyes from almost 100 years of play, Brothers who have worn the orange and black.
Jasper was rightly yelling so loud they probably could not hear what Gilmer was saying. That's o.k. We could not hear you either.
It started softly toward the end of the 3rd quarter, a group of fans chanting "We want State". As it grew, maybe the cheerleaders helped it, or maybe the Army of Buckeyes just answered the call. By the time the score was 42-41 it was a roar anytime Gilmer had the ball.
The city's Main Street Director, and Medical Clinic Administrator, and another adult manned the Black Flag and the Cheerleaders flag and the Gilmer side either roared DEFENSE or WE WANT STATE for the whole of the fourth period.
I have been going to Buckeye games for a 1/2 century and photographing most of the past 25 years. I have never been so proud to be part of something so thrilling. I have never felt my community was so united. I have never felt prouder of our players than when our players did not fold under the Jasper onslaught.
I am so grateful for being a minor part of such an evening. We are grateful to be the champions, but we know that the Jasper Bulldogs are made of equally good stock. Congratulations on a very good year.:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
No one seem to have a significant injury, and both teams played their hearts out.
Jasper mounted a heroic attack in the second half, closed some of the doors left open for the Gilmer offense during the first half, and they kept on coming, and coming, and coming.....
Moye is good, and you are going to enjoy him for the next 2 years!!! but it is Patton and Malone who I keep seeing in my second half photos. Bronson had his share too.
After throwing only 10 interceptions in 15 games, I wondered if you were going to break Manuel Johnson's heart with those 3 interceptions. That's when I really kept seeing Patton.
But then Manuel combined with his house mate, Tay Bowser, for that critical 4th quarter route which Tay turned into our final score. He was bloodied but not out.
I know from the stands it probably looked like the Bulldog crossed the goal from I was standing at the goal line, and it looked like he came to rest about 6" to a foot shy of the white line. Sorry.
As far as the pass interference call, it looked from the other side as if your guy was draped all over ours before the ball got there. When things are so close, our eyes play tricks on us, and we can see what we want to see.....
What brought tears to my eyes as I drove home was the force of the Gilmer crowd in the 4th quarter. In 1981, there were parents in the stand booing our boys because they were behind. 20 points were scored in that game in 1:22 and otherwise it was a 6-3 game. Jasper almost had a spell like that in the first half.
At our Thursday pep rally there was a letter telling the boys that An Army of Buckeyes would be supporting them, Buckeyes from almost 100 years of play, Brothers who have worn the orange and black.
Jasper was rightly yelling so loud they probably could not hear what Gilmer was saying. That's o.k. We could not hear you either.
It started softly toward the end of the 3rd quarter, a group of fans chanting "We want State". As it grew, maybe the cheerleaders helped it, or maybe the Army of Buckeyes just answered the call. By the time the score was 42-41 it was a roar anytime Gilmer had the ball.
The city's Main Street Director, and Medical Clinic Administrator, and another adult manned the Black Flag and the Cheerleaders flag and the Gilmer side either roared DEFENSE or WE WANT STATE for the whole of the fourth period.
I have been going to Buckeye games for a 1/2 century and photographing most of the past 25 years. I have never been so proud to be part of something so thrilling. I have never felt my community was so united. I have never felt prouder of our players than when our players did not fold under the Jasper onslaught.
I am so grateful for being a minor part of such an evening. We are grateful to be the champions, but we know that the Jasper Bulldogs are made of equally good stock. Congratulations on a very good year.:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: