The only thing better then Monday Night Football will be Friday Night Football.
Friday Night Lights, as Roby Sharpe termed it last Friday night when his game ended.
In two days' time, it will be night time when the thing starts.
In professional Canadian football, there is Wendy's Friday Football each Friday of the regular season going from late June to early November.
None of it is ever held here in Yorkton of course, but in two days' time it'll be just as good. Might even be better.
The only difference is there won't be any television cameras at this game.
When the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association (SHSAA) football schedule is made up year to year, most if not every single game, kicks off between 12 noon and 2 p.m.
Not this year.
The Yorkton Regional High School (YRHS) Raiders senior football team is actually scheduled to play in back-to-back night time football games this season.
The first of which is coming this weekend when, instead of going home right after school to play video games or whatever else teenagers here do on Friday nights, this is a chance to take in high school football on a Friday night.
This is the one of very few sports events where it could be awesome regardless of what the weather happens to be.
According to Sharpe, the bad weather they experienced in last Friday's opener (heavy rain hit hard just as the time on the clock ran out), doesn't faze anyone on the team.
According to workhorse receiver and fullback Paul Toth, should the rain hit hard again for this week's possible slugfest, "it just means more groundwork. We won't be throwing the ball much," he predicted, should the weather be the same as it was when last week's game ended.
Neither Sharpe or Toth, nor rookie QB Dalton Fichtner pointed to the sweet-turned-brutal weather as reasoning for the loss.
For the first time in at least three full seasons of football at the YRHS, no game has ever been suspended before the time on the clock ran out.
It rarely happens even on TV, either.
However over the weekend at the University of Notre Dame Stadium, officials were forced to 'suspend' action while a nasty rainstorm carried over northern Indiana. This wasn't just any storm, either. It postponed NCAA action not just once but twice; the first delay lasted over two hours.
Rain almost never cancels a football game, whether it's high school, college/university or at the professional level, but at the first sign of lightning, everyone evacuates the facility. If there's anything you'd like to see covered by Game 7, please forward your suggestions to the Yorkton This Week sportsdesk by phone (306) 782-2465, or email jeff@yorkton this week.com.
