Josh Ouellette
By Josh Ouellette
“For the love of God, people, Work. This. Out.”
– Rick Reilly in his ESPN.com column Go Fish, about the impending NFL lockout.
He hits the nail on the head when he says that, in his column Reilly listed out all of the winners and losers if there is a lockout. As I read it over and over I wish the NFL and Roger Goodell would forward it to every single player in the league so they can realize that the ones who will end up losers in this war are in fact the players.
This got me thinking what if there was a high school lockout between the players and the schools. What would happen then? Here is my list of winners and losers if the San Gabriel and extending valleys lost high school football for a season.
Winners: The communists, like our own Villa-the-devil, who hate football and love covering sports like softball and girl’s basketball. Not knocking those sports but they are not football.
Loser: Joe Torosian, I think he would literally be committed into an insane asylum if there were no high school football.
Winner: Big Boy could do what he really wants to do,… as little work as possible.
Losers: All of the people who cover high school football and love every second of it.
Winner: Coaches wives would actually get to see their husbands during, well the whole year.
Losers: The hundreds of thousands of people in this area that spend their Friday nights at various high schools’s watching the greatest sport ever.
Winners: The grass fields in the area, a la Wilson, Temple City, Schurr, etc. will actually be grass fields after what would be week five of the season.
Losers: The schools, football is a huge revenue source. No football equals no money.
Winners: Other sports would get more notoriety. Kind of like baseball will get more love when there is no NFL season.
Losers: The bloggers, Bonita Alum, Panther Pride, Bobby Knight, Old School Olympic and all of the other Mid Valley Sports faithful.
Winners: Does anybody else really win in that situation?
Losers: The players, especially seniors. That would be the end of life for thousands of high school players who live for one thing. Football.
Thank god that was a hypothetical situation. Because if it were reality I think there would actually be riots. The headquarters would be located at Joe’s house; I can see him breaking out the picket signs now.
This NFL lockout is all about money, and that is why high school football is so much better than the NFL. It is the sport in a pure form. No owners. No NFLPA, well former NFLPA. Just the players and the greatest game God ever blessed us with. Football.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Contact Josh at josh@midvalleysports.com
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