Overdoing it a little (and have you thought about the roads?) (VIDEO added)

The media-approved list for the Class 1A state quarterfinal football game at Crown College this Friday night is an eye opener. It's wild.

Media organizations approved for the B-B-E Jaguars are two: the Bonanza Valley Voice and Smooth Magic 107 FM.

How many media organizations/journalists are approved for Rushford-Peterson? That figure is 18. EIGHTEEN! That's gonna be a sea of media workers roaming around the football stadium working for coverage of the Trojans if most or all of them attend. Wow.

The state football game with the Renville County West Jaguars has a list totaling 8 media-approved journalists.

For parents of teenage drivers: I hope they've put some thought into the idea of their son or daughter driving to or riding with a fellow teenage driver to this football game. The trip to St. Bonifacious may not be that bad, but the drive home will be a completely different story and completely in the dark and possibly be taking place in very, very poor driving conditions. I think we can count on terrible driving conditions for this game. The forecast says that there's a good chance of snow in St. Bonifacious in the hours of Friday morning. Winds could gust over 40 miles an hour! The snow is supposed to fade by 11 a.m., but then the wind continues to blow according to Weather-Dot-Com in the 20 mile an hour range.

The game will be played regardless, but does anyone out there think it's a responsible decision for parents to allow their teenage son or daughter to drive to and from this game? Or ride with another inexperienced teenage driver? We've known about this game since last Friday night. There's been many days to prepare or push for or ask for fan buses. Maybe it's too late to get fan buses organized. I don't know. That's above my pay grade. But parents have to make responsible decisions for their children and be aware of what's going on. What happens now is out of my hands. I just hope and pray that no one gets hurt or worse on the drive home from Crown College.

The B-B-E Band bus can take an extra 15 to 20 students along without hampering room for the band students and staff. Sign-ups for that ($5 cost) are taking place at the high school office with Nancy. **YOU must have your tickets purchased separately via the MSHSL website: https://www.mshsl.org/tickets.

I have learned that Rushford-Peterson offered fan buses, and they have filled both adult AND student buses for Friday's games. So they'll have busloads of fans getting dropped off and picked up at Crown College for the game. As of today, they have a waiting list for possible extra fan buses.

• For those who can't make the trip to Crown College...here's a link where you can purchase access to a live stream of the state football game. It's just $6.99, which is very reasonable! Click on this link and then go over to "streaming schedule" on the right and click on Friday, November 12. The link to get to the B-B-E vs. R-P game will be available then. 

https://prepspotlight.tv/MSHSL/sport/Football

*Here's a neat video that doesn't stabilize until 90 seconds in when I got the tripod set up...recorded after the Upsala/Swanville Area win last Friday at the FargoDome. It was a very special time for Jaguar Country fans!


On a different topic...in mid-October, this sports blog that you're reading right now turned 15 years old. Crazy. It's been one hell of a ride since the fall of 2006. That was so long ago. As of today it has over 620,000 views.