FILL these bleachers!

Sauk Centre's football stadium bleachers seats over 1,100.

I'm not so worried about what will happen on the Sauk Centre field (shown below) as the players will take care of that...but B-B-E fans have their own assignment tonight.

This will be B-B-E's third game of the season on turf.

I am extremely anxious to see if Jaguar Country can shock me for a second football game in a row. I don't believe I have told anyone this, but I was actually pretty surprised at not only the turnout for the football game on Saturday night but also at the energy and enthusiasm the crowd brought. Paid attendance was 573 for the A-C-GC game, which doesn't include anyone with postseason passes or workers for concessions or the Pep Band. I'd venture to guess we had a strong crowd of 650 on what was a pretty cold night. It was certainly the biggest football crowd we've had at B-B-E since the 1997 season.

However, I recall at certain junctures of the game where A-C-GC fans "owned" that stadium. (The Jaguar players remember it too)

A look at the history of the two schools sort of tells why that happened right in our own stadium: folks in Falcon Country know all about having football success in the playoffs. While they had a number of teams cut down in the Section 5AA championship in the 2000s by Eden Valley-Watkins, they at least were able to get that far.

Looking back just to 2004: A-C-GC went 0-1 only one time in the playoffs, that being in 2011 when they took a 4-4 record in the playoffs and lost in the opener to Kimball Area; from 2004 to 2013, they went 1-1 in the playoffs only twice (2005, 2013); between 2004 and 2008 they were beaten out of the playoffs every year by Eden Valley-Watkins. Oh boy, that had to get old...back to my point, between 2004 and 2013, A-C-GC piled up a whopping 17 section playoff wins. SEVENTEEN! Wow! They advanced to the state tournament the past two seasons and picked up one state win in that time.

Meanwhile, the Jaguars didn't win a lot of playoff games until recently. I won't dive into those numbers...they are completely and wholly irrelevant today. We're just not used to seeing our football team win in the playoffs. Well, Jaguar Country, time to get used to it! The time to get out and rally around our team is TODAY. Bring your school spirit, bring all the loud voices and excited attitudes you can come up with and get to Sauk Centre for this game.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: our guys deserve to have a thousand fans at this game tonight!!!! Let's make LP/HT fans stand along the chain-link fence to the west and east of the stadium bleachers because we've taken all the seats! Yes, today is the day to get greedy!