This Thursday marks the start of the new high school football season and, a new beginning for me. After working with The1Voyce for so many seasons it is going to be different not having him handle the play by play. We were comfortable working with each other, at times completing each others sentences. His voyce will surely be missed over the air, but his presence will still be felt in the broadcast booth. I join everyone else in keeping him in my thoughts and prayers. If he is unable to return to the air in the future I know he will make the most of this new "opportunity" presented to him.
I did work a couple of games with Tom Fuller in the late 90's and I am positive the two of us will carry on the tradition of giving quality coverage of the NVL on WATR. Unlike the teams we have not had any scrimmage games so Thursday may be a bit bumpy at times, but I am sure as the season progresses we will improve and get a flow going.
Speaking of Thursday we will be at Woodland calling the game against the Chargers. While everyone seems to think this is a great rivalry some numbers have to be pointed out. Ansonia leads the series 5-2, winning the last four meetings by a combined score of 177-41. That, of course, includes the NVL championship game in 2007 won by the Chargers 41-0 where the JV teams "played" the second half. Woodland's two wins came during the state championship years of 2004 and 2005 when the Hawks were a combined 24-1. During those same two years Ansonia happened to have its worst combined record for two season (15-6) since the 1985-1986 teams combined to go 14-8. Since the 2005 season the Hawks are 25-18 while Ansonia is 46-5 in the Tom Brockett era.
More thoughts on the other first week games will follow in a later post.
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