We are deep into High School playoffs. All but TWO South Texas teams have put away their helmets and pads. Calallen and Refugio are still playing. That is not unusual.
Spotlights will be on the BIG Five A and Four A schools. Some will play in the Alamodome and others at the new Texas Stadium. Some but not all. There will be two teams fighting to reach the finals, and they will meet head on at.....Comanche??? That's right! The Richland Springs Coyotes will try to get hold of the Milford Bulldogs...again. Milford enters the semi-finals at 12-1. Their only loss was a season opener with Richland Springs. They lost 54-56!
Richland Springs is a ranching town of 350 deep in the heart of Texas. I hunted three miles from there last year. Got to a game at half-time and it was over! They had such an impressive lead the game was called. Milford is about 750 folks. They are on Highway 77 about 20 miles from Waxahatchie. They play serious football as well.
These two teams are in the Division II of SIX-MAN football. The winner will play either Sterling City or Matador. Those two teams are playing Friday in Sweetwater. Six-man football is BIG in Texas. There are a lot of small towns that simply can't field an eleven-man team. Six-man football gives those guys and gals a taste of the sport.(They have cheerleaders too). There won't be a lot of scouts from colleges or universities, but that's okay. They will enjoy the sport and then go back to riding horses or four-wheelers. It really isn't a bad life out there in the country.
