It’s been a great fall football season on RCN-TV—thus far!
While it’s not quite time yet to take a look back and identify the top teams, games and players in our coverage area, it’s easy to pick out a few of the moments that have stood out from the pack.
First, here are highlights from a few of our recent games on RCN-TV over the last few weeks.
Now, I am very much aware that we have football teams in the RCN area still alive as we move into the state playoff round. We’ll continue to talk scholastic football on our next “SportsTalk” show—which will be on Thursday, December 3rd. (Our crew would absolutely KILL me if I suggested we do a live show on Thanksgiving Day!).
For those of you from our Washington, DC region, we’re also going to have video highlights from some of the annual “Turkey Day” games featuring the city teams.
However, it’s almost time for our annual “end of the year” awards and I’d like to include you once again as we start to reflect on the highlights from both this year’s football season, as well as the top moments overall in the RCN viewing area. If you have a favorite sports moment, a really great game or event, a standout athlete or team who really exceeded expectations, we’d love for you to get in contact with us. Email us at RCNSportsTalk@rcn.com with your opinions and suggestions. Be assured that we’ll factor those in when putting together our “Year in Review” selections.
I, myself, like to start reflecting on the top people and moments with a few weeks to spare. There are usually a few special events that can get lost in everything going on this time of year (fall sports teams winding down with winter sports action heating up), not to mention the holiday season.
Talking strictly football, a couple games and teams that I, and many District XI football fans, will remember for a long time, include:
- Saucon Valley vs. Notre Dame and “The catch”
- The 73-54 shootout between Central Catholic & Liberty
- Freedom football team’s regular season, ending with the school’s first-ever division title (shared with Parkland HS)
- Saucon Valley’s District Semifinal win over Bethlehem Catholic*
*(Despite some public opinion to the contrary, it is NOT incredibly rare for a Colonial League team to beat a team from the “big school conference” (the East Penn Conference, the Lehigh Valley Conference, the “EPC18”) in a District championship. Wilson won District XI 3A playoffs in 2008, and Northwestern won it a couple years before that.)
Check back to the “SportsTalk Shop” in a couple weeks as we look back at this past season and give shout-outs to our favorite moments during this season as well as other sports highlights from this past year. Also, with basketball season now upon us, we’ll be previewing the high school hoops season and taking a closer look at the top teams and players to watch this winter in both the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and Colonial League.
Last but certainly not least: On behalf of everyone at the “SportsTalk Shop” and RCN, I’d like to wish you and your family a safe and heartfelt “Happy Thanksgiving” holiday. We are very thankful for your readership throughout the year and for the many wonderful comments you pass along to us about our coverage here on this blog and on RCN-TV. Many thanks to all and have a wonderful holiday season!!
