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Carol Perkins: Friday night lights! Friday nights mean high school football. This is a happy time, and marks the beginning of the 2013 school year. Football is a huge tradition in Barren County and Glasgow, the writer says, and when Metcalfe played them, the outcome wasn't always glorious for the Metcalfe Hornets. "But the maroon and white stood tall. "Scoring was like winning to us parents!" she remembers. She remembers too, giants from Green County. Sometimes games with the Dragons would end with a few conflicts and signs of poor sportsmanship among fans and maybe some players, but never was a game with Green County a dull one. On Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 10am-12pm noon CT, on 99.1 Susan and Carol-Unscripted, our topic will be the history of Metcalfe County football with guest Harold Chambers, Bruce Keel, Larry Harbison, present coach Fred Harbison, and a member of that first team in 1959, Larry Cooksey. We will talk about those "glory" days of football in our county, as well as the teams we played. Perhaps our conversation will spark your own Fight Night Memories under the lights. - CAROL PERKINS. The Next earlier Carol Perkins Column: Carol Perkins: From the Beach House, Part II By Carol Perkins Friday Night Lights! How quickly the football season comes around and all that it brings. Area marching bands are putting together their competition shows, the cheerleaders are working on their routines and making up new football cheers that never can quite bring the same response as the plain old "DEFENSE" and "WE WANT A TOUCHDOWN", and the pep club girls and guys are organizing their crazy outfits for each game from painting their bodies to decorating hats and shirts. This is a happy time, and marks the beginning of the 2013 school year. Each school has a Meet the Team night. In Metcalfe County, the Edmonton State Bank presents each fall sport participant a "kick off" shirt. As the plans for the shirts were weaving, I realized that there are seven fall sports. Who knew? Football, Volleyball, Cheerleading, Dance, Cross Country, Band and Golf. In some schools there are more. As I was calculating, I realized that over 140 students out of a population of around 400 were involved in a fall sport. How great for the school and the students. Football is a huge tradition in Glasgow and Barren County, too. As a matter of fact, I can remember when my son played for Metcalfe and our time came to play Glasgow. Even though outnumbered greatly, our boys walked onto the field with confidence even though the outcome wasn't always a glorious one. The blue and white dominated the field, but the maroon and white stood tall. Scoring was like winning to us parents! Just this week as Susan Chambers and I were on our way to do our radio show at 99.1 the Hoss, which is located in Horse Cave, we passed a field of purple and white jerseys and helmets of middle school students preparing for the season. In the next field were bigger boys, also wearing purple and white, who were obviously high school students who had no idea of the impact they were having on the young ones nearby. This made me long for the days when my own son was a little league player modeling himself after the high school "giants" who took him under their wings. To be a high school football player was mammoth. Another team who was high on our list of opponents was Monroe County. With a string of "big" guys lining up on the sidelines, I measured them up to our much smaller line and hoped that no one would be killed! Many times we gave the Falcons a run for their money, even though they had both offensive and defensive lines while we had to use some of the boys for both. We parents dreaded those games with the heavy hitters, but for some reason our boys looked forward to them. I rather enjoyed watching the guys play schools much similar to ours in number and size. Adding to the list of giants was Green Co. Known for their competitive nature and their high- spirited fans, playing the Dragons was not always a time we parents marked as a red-letter night. The boys, however, embraced this game, always anticipating a win. Sometimes the game would end with a few conflicts and signs of poor sportsmanship among fans and maybe some players, but never was a game with Green County a dull one. The games parents dread are often the ones the boys can't wait for during the year. They never minded playing in the mud or in the pouring rain, and we parents sat on the bleachers watching every move. There are some things forgotten during a person's high school days, but if a boy played football, he will never forget his number. Our son wore the number "45" and every time I see that number on a field, I think of his glory days as a Hornet. I call them glory days not because he was a star, but because he was part of a group of young men who proudly wore the maroon and white. Boys and girls don't forget their uniform days no matter what sport they played. Frankly, I always breathed deeply until I saw number "45" stand up after the tackles. On Tuesday, 10am-12pm noon CT, August 20, 2013 on 99.1 Susan and Carol-Unscripted, our topic will be the history of Metcalfe County football with guest Harold Chambers, Bruce Keel, Larry Harbison, present coach Fred Harbison, and a member of that first team in 1959, Larry Cooksey. We will talk about those "glory" days of football in our county, as well as the teams we played. Perhaps our conversation will spark your own Fight Night Memories under the lights. - Carol Perkins This story was posted on 2013-08-18 02:51:11
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