The first week of football practice is over and the shorts will be replaced by shoulder pads and next week you will find out who loves football when the contact gets one on one. By Thursday Rocky Mount will have enough practices under their belt and can hit somebody else as they will host a three team scrimmage at 6:00pm Thursday. Then Saturday they take part in the Highschoolot.com football jamboree which this year is taking place at Cardinal Gibbons High School right across the street from PNC Arena.
14 teams will take part and each will scrimmage one other team and they will have the entire field to cover as in as close to real game conditions as possible for a scrimmage. Rocky Mount will face off with South Johnston a team that they met in the second round of the state playoffs. Their time on the field will begin at 5:40pm. If you plan on going park in the front parking lot in front of the school.
Those of you that can not live without NFL football there is good news in the air. The first scrimmage, practice game what ever you want to call it, the Packers play the Colts Sunday night to start the exhibition season. The Colts and Packers both play five practice games so I doubt there will be anybody that you have ever heard of play.
It is of course the Hall Of Fame game in Canton Ohio. Brett Farve is the headline inductee into the Hall this year and you might Check me on this but Kevin Greene former Carolina Panther linebacker who is third on the all time sack list is heading into the Hall. He is getting in for his years as linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers and LA Rams but in 1996 joined the Carolina Panthers. Just in case you have forgotten Greene was linebacker of the year his one season in Charlotte and made the All Pro Team. That was the second year of the Panthers and they made the playoffs for the first time and beat Dallas in the first round. A contract dispute and Greene signed with the 49'er's in 1997.
The Olympics are officially under way. It is for sure we live in a cell phone world now. Just about every athlete had their cell phones out taking pictures or selfies during the introduction of nations. You know cell phones have only been out about 24 or 25 years. How in the world did we survive before cell phones?
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