Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Manly Achievement of the week

For those of you who don't live in Mississippi, this post might be uninteresting. However, I nominate the South Panola Tigers of Batesville, Mississippi for the manly achievement of the week. South Panola just won its 4th consecutive MHSAA football title. Say what you will about much of Mississippi, football talent is one thing that is almost unparalleled per capita in any other state. Knowing that makes South Panola's streak even more impressive. In a state where football rules the weekend and much of the rest of a persons week, South Panola has now won 60....let me say that again....60 straight games. In the largest division of Mississippi high school football, this years seniors have not even lost a game in their whole career. (And yes, 4-5 of those players have already committed to Ole Miss). For the 60 game, 4 title achievement, sweet emotion salutes you. That is a record to brag about, that is a record to still talk about when you are 45 and overweight. You can sit in the stands, watch a game, nudge your neighbor and say, "Back when i played, the game was much tougher, and even in spite of that...we won 60 straight games." You can also stare your son in the face one day and in all sincerity say "boy, don't believe that garbage they are telling you, everyone doesn't have to lose some day....I never lost a game in my high school career."

Also if you live in Jackson, Mississippi, Armed Robbery is up 80.2% this year. Ok back to my studies

33 Comments:

At 4:39 PM, Blogger Luke said...

"Say what you will about much of Mississippi, football talent is one thing that is almost unparalleled per capita in any other state"

is this a joke? Seriously? Have you ever watched a Texas high school football game? :)

 
At 5:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do you know what "per capita" means? Brian's point is correct in that Mississippi is always at the top of the list in NFL players per capita (ahead of Texas). Have you ever watched a South Panola Football game?

 
At 10:44 AM, Blogger kurt said...

Greatest Wide Receiver of all time...

Jerry Rice from Mississippi

Greatest Running Back of all time...

Walter Payton from Mississippi

Two of the best QB's of this era...

Steve McNair from Mississippi

Brett Farve from Mississippi

all that from a state with fewer people than the city of atlanta...

 
At 10:50 AM, Blogger kurt said...

Also, I went to Tupelo High and we play South Panola twice most every year since I was a freshman. They are unbelievable. What's scary is that they used to not have a kicker, and would just go for two every time. Their offense is so tough that they usually got it more than 50% of the time. Since their option is so tough to stop, they often just go for it on 4th down. You know your team is good when you basically forfeit field position and special teams and still blow people out...

...there's a really cool story (I don't know all the details) about how their coach spent most of his budget his first year buying footballs for lots of kids and encouraging them to play football instead of basketball...

 
At 2:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Violent crime in general is up 47%. Good times.

Further proof of Brian's claim.....

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/9619858

 
At 2:26 PM, Blogger Luke said...

Knew that would get people riled up.
I just never hear about Mississippi football in the discussion...it is always Texas, Florida, and Cali.
But I'm sure Miss. is great per capita...but not a good as Texas, not even per capita.

 
At 3:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wrong.

In 2005, the population of Texas was 22,859,968. On NFL rosters in 2005, 173 players were from Texas. That comes to 1 NFL player for every 132,138 people.

In 2005, the population of Mississippi was 2,921,088. On NFL rosters in 2005, 47 players were from Mississippi. That comes to 1 NFL player for every 62,150 people.

62,000 to 132,000 is not even close. If you're from Mississippi, you're twice as likely to play in the NFL than if you were from Texas. There's a feather for our cap.

 
At 3:26 PM, Blogger Brian said...

preach it brother Gray

 
At 4:24 PM, Blogger Luke said...

But who says that NFL players is the best determining factor for which state has better high school football per capita?
What about percentage of players who play D-I college football? That seems a good estimate as well to me...and I wonder if Tx is higher there.
NFL players is not the only or even the best factor in the discussion.

 
At 4:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I was only responding to your claim that Texas had a better per capita ratio of NFL players than Mississippi does. I think it's impossible to say who has better high school football because "better" is different in each person's mind.

However, the NFL is the highest level of football.

 
At 5:21 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think we should all just defer to Kirk Herbstreit's team/player evaluation methods. He seems to be able to tell which teams are better totally independent of their schedule and win/loss record. I guess he just bases it on the uniform, mascot, cheerleaders, and which college town have the best restaurants. He should be the ultimate authority on which state has the best football players. He can probably just look at a map of the U.S. and decide based on color and shape of a state how many great football players that state has.

P.S. Kirk, don't forget to look at Alaska in the bottom lefthand corner of the map. It is pretty big and cold and stays dark for like 360 days a year, so I'd be willing to bet those eskimos are pretty tough and could dominate just about anybody.

P.P.S. To the crazy sled dog coalition lady... just because I made a reference to Alaska, doesn't mean that I endorse mistreatment of sled dogs. Keep your crazy to yourself.

 
At 6:27 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

speaking of dog sledding...
one of my former students lives in alaska and is a dog sledding guide. He was in town for a couple of days visiting his mom. He had to get back to alaska before the lake at the lodge that he works at froze over. He is going to be there for a couple of weeks with no way out until the lake freezes over enough to land a ski plane on it. And by the way, the dogs love to pull, they live and die for it.

Kelly

 
At 7:56 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

USA Football called Mississippi the #1 football state earlier this year. See this link.

http://www.usafootball.com/articles/19-press-box/95-featured-articles/401-mississippi-tabbed-as-best-football-state.php

 
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