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Friday night lights in Rural Georgia just means more

MeR3htid

Back in the mid to late 70s I remember going to the local Highschool football game on Friday night. The Harris County Tigers, (Alma Mater of Jordan Jenkins, Tae Crowder and Techs Taquan Marshall) wasn't very good back then but the town would literally shut down to go to the Stadium to support the team. If u lived in town (Hamilton, GA.) you could hear the band practicing all day in preparation for the nights performance. We kids, Blacks and Whites alike would gather on the grassy area above the North end zone and play throw up tackle pretending not that to b our favorite NFL or College player but our favorite Harris County Tiger be it QB Ted Edgar or Runaway Freightrain running back Willard Murphy who was our Herschel Walker. I was only a preteen back then but I WILL never forget my introduction to Friday Night Lights in Rural Georgia and it's something every fan should experience at least once. Any experiences you'd like to share?

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BEACHDAWG

My kids went to Parkview through the Stinchcomb/Jeff Francoeur/Brad Lester era. Can't remember the kicker's name who went to Clempson, but he got kicked out of numerous soccer games for fighting and they sent him to the football team. SRO every Friday. High school football is an unique experience.

3rdshift

if it aint candle light...it aint rural....sorry i thought this thread was about bro country songs...

MeR3htid

Yeah the late Cecil Flowe was the coach back then. In fact I think it was during that era when Metro Atlanta teams started to assert itself as the dominant teams in Georgias highest classification. Buck Godfrey's S.W. DeKalb Panthers led by Quincy Carter and of course Brookwood, McEachern with AJ SUGGS and of course Parkviews 3peat swung the balance of power to the North and that continues to this day.

MeR3htid

3rd shift, what is a bro country song? Enlighten us.

3rdshift

wiki is fairly accurate on that one

MeR3htid

Okay just never heard of it

Bsampson0317

I hear yah loud and clear. This past Friday night, I think every person in the small town of Moultrie,Ga was at the Packer game. Attendance number was at 13,000, it felt like I was at at UGA game. We have an old rivalry game with Valdosta this Friday night as well, between that and the UGA its gonna be a great weekend of football, there is no better time of year in the south than that.

MeR3htid

Amen brother I'll have my Pickup truck back on the road soon and I got a few Bucket list towns that Id like to c. Valdosta and Colquitt in the deep southern part of the state, Warner Robins and Northside Warner Robins in the middle and Cartersville and Rome up North. I imagine Friday nights in those towns on game night of a rivalry game would be something to remember regardless of how competitive a game it is.These r kids were talking about after all.

MacDawg15

I played at Swainsboro a couple years after Terrance Edwards left Washington County. They never beat us during my years of playing them. But WACO used to be almost mystical. I remember going to "the house of pain." We beat em in the dome 17- in 01. I remember my 1st yr starting at qb we were 12-0 and ran into Hart County and Carlos Bates and lost 14-0 at home. But yea Friday nites in these smaller towns seam to bring everybody in the community out. This was when northside Warner Robins was a powerhouse, along with Parkview. Now it just seems like even some 1a schools are bringing in guys that aren't originally from the area. Those days of "non recruiting" are over with. I played college baseball at ABAC and went to Colquitt county a good bit. I'd love to see them play Valdosta now that Probst is on the sidelines. I still don't think Valdosta's history of state championships will ever be broken. What is it like 26? That's CRAZY!

MeR3htid

Yeah didn't they (Valdosta) add another one last year.

MacDawg15

tbh I can't remember lol

MeR3htid

I think they did but I'll look it up. It was either last yr or the year before because it was their first title since '98 or '99

BrotatoChip88

Douglas GA still shuts down on Friday night. Houston plays in our region and when Fromm and the Bears came down two years ago to play Coffee County it was insane!!

scooterdawg

Sounds like fun. I missed out on the HS football thing because I went to Lovett. I did get in a fight with our starting QB my junior year lol.

MeR3htid

I went to a Lovett game in 1984 when they had Knox Culpepper who started at Georgia n the late 80s. He was a man among boys on the High School level. But don't get me wrong Friday Night Lights is a big deal all over Georgia, it just means more in those rural areas because it's the only game in town.