Home on Friday night

Wes Bradshaw and I had a live show Friday night on AM 1390. It was suppose to last 30 minutes, from 7-7:30, where we talked Gryphon football even though we did not play.

We managed to stretch an half hour into 50 minutes before we gave the station back to Gospel Music.

When I got in the car, I turned my radio on and listened to the Nash Central-Fike game, which had the Bulldogs up 14-0 at the end of the first quarter.

The Bulldogs looked like they were going to be setting alone in first place in the conference if they kept this up.

I arrived home and it was almost 9.30 before I turned the game back on to see what was happening.

It is now 27-24 Fike, midway through the third quarter and I find out through Paul Andre that Nash Central had a 24-zip lead before the Golden Demons decided to act like the Boston Red Sox.

Fike routs Nash Central 46-30 by scoring 32 points in the second half.

This puts Fike, Nash Central along with Southern Nash at 1-1 in conference play.

Southern Nash managed its own rout - whipping Northern Nash.

So this sets up that whoever wins the SW Edgecombe-Rocky Mount game on Monday night will have a solid hold on first place in only two weeks and there will be a four-way tie for second..

Look at it this way. Rocky Mount has four conference games left and all four will be against teams with a shot as of tonight, of taking home the conference championship.

The impressive start that the Gryphons have had this year can still fall apart or with four more victories put this 2008 team in the same breath when you talk about the best teams ever at Rocky Mount.

We will now find out whether there is one team in this conference standing above the others .

Why Not.... Let's Play On Monday

The economic conditions in this country right now are such that every penny has to be accounted for.

Even though very little rain has fallen to this point on this Friday, the officials at Southwest Edgecombe have decided to move the football game with Rocky Mount to Monday.

Do I think it is a bad decision? Yes. But I respect the decision.

There is a potential of 3,000 fans that my attend this game. Six dollars a pop and there you have it. Name me another game left on their schedule that 3,000 people will attend.

Money is the reason this game has already been moved to Monday night at 7 p.m. kickoff.

If you remember two years ago on a Monday night, SouthWest was jammed packed for the Rocky Mount game. If SouthWest was playing East Wake tonight, I bet they would play because no one from East Wake would go to the game anyway.

But this is Rocky Mount and with only a 12-mile mile drive, people from both sides of the railroad tracks will go to this game.

I do think that playing tonight is a big advantage for SouthWest to help slow down the Gryphons. If no more rain falls over the weekend and the field is in reasonable shape ,then there is no advantage either way other than the home field for SouthWest.

The big gamble here by the SouthWest folks is that how is the weather going to be Monday night?

Even though we are not playing tonight, we will be live on AM 1390 from 7-7:30 to talk football.

Listen to us jabber about football tonight and Monday we will hit the airwaves at 6.30 p.m. for Monday's 7 p.m. kickoff.

So in the four-year history of the NEW 6, Rocky Mount will never play SouthWest Edgecombe on a Friday night during the regular season.

They did, of course, play each other in the playoffs in Rocky Mount in 2005 with the Gryphons winning 21-7.

I think it has become such a tradition for SouthWest and Rocky Mount to play on Mondays, this game was doomed to be play Monday even if the sun had of shined all day.