A Gift For Christmas: The Best Football Game Of The Year

Rick Reilly on Grapevine Faith vs. Gainesville State School.

9 comments

  1. That is one helluva story, Wick. I have a deep-seated suspicion of church schools. Which means I’m wrong. Often. Especially now.

    @ 3:05 pm on December 23, 2008
  2. Sniffle, snort, sniffle. Great story by a great writer.

    @ 3:28 pm on December 23, 2008
  3. Beautiful!
    Happy Holidays to All…

    @ 4:58 pm on December 23, 2008
  4. I covered a game Gainesville State played against a 2A school. This piece is absolutely dead on in the fact that nobody but a few wives of employees are on the visitors side to cheer for the kids.

    It’s kind of a production for them to play, too. There were two people from GSS at each exit.

    It’s nice to see another school show some compassion for these kids, too. The school I covered at the time also made goody bags for the boys, and at the time (this was about 5 years ago or so) it was a very rare occurrence.

    @ 9:47 pm on December 23, 2008
  5. This was a good story when it was in the Star-Telegram last month.

    http://www.wacotrib.com/prep/content/living/stories/2008/11/10/11102008wacFBHfaith.html

    @ 12:19 am on December 24, 2008
  6. Here I thought tonight’s TCU game was the best so far… then I read the column.

    I stand corrected.

    @ 2:19 am on December 24, 2008
  7. Sports Illustrated has not been the same since Reilly quit writing his column.

    @ 9:09 am on December 24, 2008
  8. Yeah, the backpage writers have been sorely lacking, compared to Reilly. But then again, who would want to follow him?

    @ 9:19 am on December 24, 2008
  9. Did anybody look at Texas Flood’s link?

    @ 12:29 pm on December 24, 2008