Punta Gorda @ Ft Myers Wavebb

[Silver King]

Me and my old QB may make it tonight if I can get my car unstuck from the mud this afternoon. May try the Farmer's Market - let me know, meet me there and I'll buy you dinner! You can meet the first non-Lee County Football player to be News Press Player of the Year (Harold "Boo Boo" Weaver; QB / MLB, 1971).

SW FL is still scratching it's palm tree head as to how Ed Perez won it the year before in 1970 from a 2-8 Green Wave team while just up the Trail, the Tarpons 10-2 were a penalty short of the State Title game. We had one of the leading rushes in the state that year, and a guy who the FHSAA named one of the Top 100 players in Florida's History - who went to 3 Super Bowls with the Cowboys - only Rookie starter in X.

 

[Silver King]

Ended up not making it for a few reasons primarily I didn't here from my buddy Wavebb. I saw the game had a long rain/lightening delay as about half of the Lee games did. Not a surprising outcome, Sammy's the dean of area coaches and has decades long staff like the Tarps used to have, throw in some superior athletes and its tough to beat. We're in the Pre-Binky Waldrop pendulum swing with Ft Myers - don't think we've beat the Wave since the Binkster retired. Can't comment too much on the game because haven't seen the paper yet, instead I went to the legendary Shell Factory this morning to see it off - what a state landmark for Florida Kitsch. I'm assuming the Q and Stud WR were just too much for the Tarps. EDIT NO that wasn't it, the Tarpons turned the ball over on three straight possessions - they would have had a shot otherwise.