Sunday, September 26, 2010

The Old Blogger Wakes Up From a Twelve Month Nap!

It's almost a year to the day since the last blog post. Didn't get much of a chance to watch the local football teams last year, although I did watch the Spruce Grove Bantam Cougars as they capped an amazing season - winning the CDMFA title and then going on to capture the Provincial Tier 1 Championship with a thrilling victory over a Calgary team. That was awesome to see.

This year some of those Bantam players have moved up to high school ball - either with the Marauders or the Panthers. Both of those high school teams have looked very impressive in the two games that I have seen in 2010 - Marauders gutting out a narrow pre-season victory over the JP Rebels and the Panthers dismantling the Scona Lords in their first regular season game. Both games were highly entertaining and the Panthers game drew a very impressive crowd to Fuhr Sports Park in Spruce Grove - great atmosphere and the home town fans had a lot to chear about. (Too bad they haven't quite caught on to the fact that it's ok to chear and make noise! Toward the end of the game they started to get into it though, and I think the excitement will build.)

Keep in mind that this football blog is not officially part of the minor football associations in Spruce Grove or Stony Plain. It's just a fan site and your comments are welcome! (I moderate the comments though - keep it relatively clean and have some respect when posting something. I'm not fond of the "Web 2.0" attitude which seems to prevail these days - the one that says "I can be as rude and offensive as I like and nobody is allowed to disagree with me!")

For official news and pictures, etc - be sure to head over to the minor football association's home page http://www.sgdmfa.com/.

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