Here Comes Another Hurricane

Two years ago the warning signs were issued of an impending hurricane and the folks at Northern Vance decided to wait until the last minute and at the last minute had to postpone our game at their place until later in September.

Once again this Friday the Gryphons are scheduled to play a non-conference game on the road and warnings are every where of impending bad weather for Friday. Let's hope the game is moved to Thursday to prevent another such fiasco. Our biggest problem with this game is it is in Duplin County, on the coast and they may get rain out of this storm even if it stays off the coast while we might not get any rain at all in Nash County.

Right now Thursday may not even be available depending on how far ahead of the storm the rains are. I am not sure of why but the JV home opener is tonight. Playing on Wednesday has nothing to do with the storm as this game was changed last week before any one knew anything about this storm.

The soccer team seems to have recovered from their opening day loss at home to Roanoke Rapids. Tuesday the soccer team beat D H Conley in Greenville 4-3. Matt Williams scored twice along with a goal each from Andrew Morales and Lee McAvoy. The Gryphons are now 3-1-1 on the season.

Volley Ball has a home match tonight against Southern Vance. JV's play at 4.30 and the varsity pretty quickly after that.

I really like the idea of the NFL dropping two pre seasons games and adding two regular season games. The only problem I have is 18 games just does not work as well as 16 in scheduling.

The way it is now all teams play every one in their division twice for six of their games. They also play another division in their conference which adds four more. They play another division in in the other conference. Then you play the other teams in your conference that you tied with last year. In other words since you already play one division in you conference every team in that division you play the teams you are tied with in the other divisions. All third place teams play each other.

Under this format I could count on the Carolina Panthers playing their Southern division teams Atlanta, New Orleans and Tampa every year. Every three years they would play every other team in their conference and every four years play every division in the AFC.

When they go to 18, how are they going to divide it up where everyone is playing the same teams. As it is now all teams in a division play the same others teams in other conferences and divisions.

Look what money does to the world.