If you are a football junkie, can’t get enough live, local football, you may have met your match this weekend. It’ll be a football marathon at Frost-Kalnow Stadium with a total of four games to be played on National Field.
Friday night Columbian hosts Shelby in a Northern Ohio League contest kicking off at 7:30.
The really grueling run starts about 14 hours later on Saturday as Tiffin University hosts Gannon. Kickoff is at noon for the NCAA Div. II Dragons.
At 4:00 p.m., the Heidelberg Student Princes take on perennial Division III powerhouse Mount Union in an Ohio Athletic Conference game.
Then, at 8:00 p.m., high schoolers take over again as the Calvert Senecas host the Carey Blue Devils in a Midland Athletic League contest.
We won’t even think about what will happen if any of the games goes into overtime.
What it does illustrate, though, is what a terrific facility Frost-Kalnow Stadium and National Field are for this community. There were times years ago when there might be three games played on the old natural turf field in a weekend, and sometimes they were wet weekends. Because of the TLC given to the field, it held up OK but took a real beating.
Now, with the new, state-of-the-art artificial turf, the field should be in as good condition at the end of Calvert’s game as at the beginning of the Columbian game.
Everyone who helped to make the renovation of that facility a few years ago again has reason to be proud.
I’d like to think that my stream-of-consciousness rant about the Cleveland Browns a week ago spurred them to manhandle the Pittsburgh Steelers last Sunday but I know better.
It was very satisfying, though to see the Browns so much in control and pretty much able to do whatever they wanted on the field.
Of course, we expect them to do the same every weekend now.
Last weekend’s flap over the ill-advised remarks Rush Limbaugh made on an ESPN sports got me thinking. I thought about why, since, in simple terms, we have a constitutionally guaranteed right to say what we want, do so many people raise such a ruckus when someone says something they think is wrong?
It suddenly dawned on me that the Constitution only protects us from
the government preventing us from saying what we want. When it comes to
the “court of public opinion,” you can say what you want, but you must
be prepared to accept the consequences if it turns out to be unpopular.