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Post by tothehouse on Aug 12, 2006 23:33:57 GMT -6
I have a few football coaching friends up in AK. Boy are they lucky.
This weekend was week 1 of their season. While most of us are trugging through doubles and getting ready, they got into their shinys this weekend and teed it up.
Jealousy reigns supreme!
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Post by ocinaz on Aug 12, 2006 23:42:54 GMT -6
WOW, that is quick, we scrimmage on Friday the 18th, then the regular season starts the next week. No buy weeks, it's all downhill from here on out!!
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Post by tothehouse on Aug 12, 2006 23:59:22 GMT -6
Their state playoffs are done October 21st!!!!!!!!!!
I saw the 2001 state championship game played in 5 degree weather. -10 wind chill factor as well!!! I saw the game on tape and got a cold watching it.
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Post by Yash on Aug 13, 2006 0:12:55 GMT -6
I coach in Alaska, we arn't so lucky in late sep early Oct when its freezing! Alaskan football seems different than the states. Most schools don't have lights so its Sat games instead of Fri night lights.
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Post by wingtol on Aug 13, 2006 7:17:28 GMT -6
Yeah lucky them.....playing in minus degree weather, 24 hours of nighttime, way too much snow for even me to handle(we get like 100+ in. a year), and I am sure it is real cheap to live up there. LOL yeah lucky them  Speaking of there was a clinic here in town for wing-t coaches and there was a guy who came from Alaska to PA jsut for the clinic. If not one thing they are dedicatred to the sport up there! |
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Post by kcbazooka on Aug 13, 2006 10:05:34 GMT -6
and I think its still true if you win one game you're in the state's top twenty! (used to be only 21 teams). I flat out couldn't handle the cold!!!
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Post by airman on Aug 13, 2006 15:41:56 GMT -6
I have to give them credit for even having football way up north.
I am from the upper midwest and I think it is cold here at times when we play in late oct and nov.
I can only imagine what it is like up in alaska.
as I say, h.s. football in the midwest is the only sport I know were you start out in shorts/t shirts/water breaks and endup wearing long johns, parkas and snow boots to stay warm on the sidelines.
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Post by Yash on Aug 13, 2006 22:26:24 GMT -6
This week is the first football game ever above the arctic circle. Barrow Alaska takes on Delta Junction. Barrow is the northern most city I think in the world. Google it and look where it is on the map. They have a polar bear watch tower at their stadium because they have been known to wander on by. I think ESPN is doing something on it. Its going to be a terrible quality of game. Delta is a second year program in the boon docks of alaska and Barrow is a first year program. But its still good that they have a team and are building.
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Post by baraboo99 on Aug 15, 2006 7:14:55 GMT -6
This week is the first football game ever above the arctic circle. Barrow Alaska takes on Delta Junction. Barrow is the northern most city I think in the world. Maybe the first with for american teams above the arctic circle, but here in Finland we have a team that is just above the arctic circle in Rovaniemi, the hometown of Santa Claus;) There was also at least one team in Sweden last year that was even farther north... Its a hell of a trip for us (11-15 hours) but we went up there and won 34-8 last year. When they come down south to play teams in our area they usually have to play two games in one weekend to save on travel costs. |
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Speaking of there was a clinic here in town for wing-t coaches and there was a guy who came from Alaska to PA jsut for the clinic. If not one thing they are dedicatred to the sport up there!
