As I’ve gone on and on about, Thanksgiving Football week is one of the biggest sporting events in Connecticut. And it disheartened me to see incredible amounts of rain in the forecast, not because I didn’t want to stand around in the rain (although that is annoying), but because I thought all of the tradition and pagentry was going to be a complete washout.
My fears slowly turned to reality at breakfast at the annual Thanksgiving breakfast at the Blue Diamond Bistro with George DeMaio and the rest of the WELI crew. The reports quickly came in,
Law-Foran, OFF. …Amity-North Haven, OFF. …Shelton-Derby, OFF. …Ansonia-Naugatuck, OFF. West Haven-Fairfield Prep, OFF.
Ugh, the whole day was going to be a wash.
Or so I thought, until I arrived at the Connecticut Post at 9 a.m. to get a handle on every other game.
But, guess what? We only had one more postponement, McMahon-Norwalk. Everything else was on. So were a lot of other big games across the state. And, outside of getting absolutely soaked, it turned out to be a pretty thrilling, football-filled Thanksgiving Day. Just 12 games were postponed. Not bad, considering.
But, once again. The day felt incomplete. We were missing a few big games.
And they were almost all in the SCC, mostly by eams that play on turf.
Hey. SCC. What? Gives? Except for Hillhouse and the Green Bowl people, the rest of the conference really let me down. West Haven can get its turf ready in hours after a snowstorm, but it can play in rain? Shelton just had a new turf installed two years ago. Same with Foran. North Haven can be forgiven… almost, until you see that Hillhouse played in slop. And they’re going to the state playoffs next week.
Just very disappointing. The whole day loses its luster. It was still fun, but not the same without hearing from West Haven, Ansonia, et. al.
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