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Poking around an old computer and finding some cool stuff. I love this pic from 2004, #60 is my son.

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Tight blue pants are a little scary.

The defense was a little scary. 11-2, lost one regular season game to the eventual 5A state champs and lost the semi-final game. btw - the black jerseys were a HUGE controversy. Coach was an NIU grad (played on the 84 bowl team) and wanted black even though it's not a school color. Principal is a grad of the school and wanted to stick with the school colors - Blue and White.

Guess who won?

Coach is still there, and they still have alot of black in the uniform. Although I kind of side with the principal.

Leading the Vikings out ...

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I guess he was about 14 here.

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jim wrote:The defense was a little scary. 11-2, lost one regular season game to the eventual 5A state champs and lost the semi-final game. btw - the black jerseys were a HUGE controversy. Coach was an NIU grad (played on the 84 bowl team) and wanted black even though it's not a school color. Principal is a grad of the school and wanted to stick with the school colors - Blue and White.

Guess who won?

Coach is still there, and they still have alot of black in the uniform. Although I kind of side with the principal.

Was Pat Schiller on that team?

stlouie_lipp wrote:

jim wrote:The defense was a little scary. 11-2, lost one regular season game to the eventual 5A state champs and lost the semi-final game. btw - the black jerseys were a HUGE controversy. Coach was an NIU grad (played on the 84 bowl team) and wanted black even though it's not a school color. Principal is a grad of the school and wanted to stick with the school colors - Blue and White.

Guess who won?

Coach is still there, and they still have alot of black in the uniform. Although I kind of side with the principal.

Was Pat Schiller on that team?

Pat was a Soph. and did not play varsity that year - that kind of gives you an idea of how good we were at the varsity level that year. Most kids that good are playing up. But we knew of him, because of course up here they play the JV games before the varsity games and I usually would get there very early to get a seat. So I got to see him play a lot.

PaintItRed with a nice Yellowstone Cuthroat just outside the park at Gardner, MT - Aug 2001.

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