Yes....I was at Humboldt for many years....My last year was 1996. spent many years in the playoffs.....spent several Thanksgivings practicing and getting ready for the game the following day....Beat Maryville at Maryville for the state championship in 1979....played for two more state championships played at Vandy and Dudley Field...
Back in those days Bowl games were very big too....Played in a lot of them....You could lose 1 game and be knocked out of the playoffs in those days. One of the best games I was involved in was the old Tobacco Bowl in Hartsville, Tn......Humboldt was 8-2 and played 9-1 Franklin County. Humboldt won 35-28....Our tailback went on and played at UT for Majors.
Good Times in the 70's....80's....90's
THose really were good times. I got to play in 6 playoff games and one bowl game during my HS career. My soph yr we only lost one game in district and that kept us out of the playoffs. That is much different than today, for sure. Luckily we got invited to play in the Millington Jaycee Bowl which turned out to be a great experience. We were matched up with our hated prep school rival, CBHS, and proceeded to whip them 24-0. Back in those days, my coach would give you a "letter" for football if you played in 8 different quarters that season. Well, myself and 3 of my buddies had 7 quarters going in to the bowl game. All of us got in for one play in that bowl game and that got us a coveted letter. It was pretty dang cool to walk around the halls in our red and blue letter jackets as sophomores! I still have that jacket in my closet.
I also remember Jr year playing Ridgeway at Halle Stadium in Memphis. Halle was a fairly big stadium for HS, and it was used as home field for a few different HS's at the time. It was cool to play at that facility, but I remember well how damn cold it was that November game in 1982. I think temps got down in the lower teens for the game. Somebody had bought a bunch of "Big Mama Pantyhose" and made them available in the lockeroom. It was so damn cold I put a pair on while suiting up. At halftime nearly all of us were ripping those damn things off because we got hotter that Hell!
So funny.
