A few years ago while on the game of the week trail. Wilson County changed Friday night football of Labor Day weekend to Thursday and I really liked it.

There are obvious reasons, a possible three day weekend and if you are leaving town do it after work on Friday. I liked the idea then and I still do now. I hope in the future that all Labor Day weekend games are moved to Thursday.

Tonight Northampton East pays a visit to Rocky Mount. If they had their druthers Rocky Mount would rather play a more quality opponent. Give the Rams credit; they will play Rocky Mount when they know they are probably going to get drubbed when others won’t answer the phone when Rocky Mount calls.

This one should be over by the half so expect everyone to get playing time tonight. We will get a chance to see how Dickie Schock thinks of this year’s team.

If you see many starters in the second half then I don’t think he is satisfied with the way the team is developing. If after the first drive in the second half the starters are gone then he feels they are doing a good job and likes where they are looking at the season ahead.

Of course if Northampton makes a game of it then we will all know this team is not developing very well.

It will be interesting to see how the extra point game is with new kicker Wood Riddick. Last week the two point conversions weren’t as good as a good junior high team.

Don’t forget because this is a Thursday night game and school still in session Friday, kickoff is set for 7.00pm

Hunt Host Holly Springs: I would suspect this game will not be a run-a-way like the first two games have been for Hunt, but Hunt should win rather easily.

We will begin our pre game coverage of gryphon football at 6.30 on am 1390. I hope you go to the game. If you do carry a walkman radio with you. There are always things happening that we can find out what happened and let everyone on the radio know about it.

Rocky Mount 51 Northampton East 6

If we can score 30 on Northern Durham and not make an extra point then fifty tonight should be easy.