The tailgating was great in Carson Park. The game, not so much.
Game photos from Johnnie Dad (Jeff Sowden).
Go Johnnies!
Week 2: @ UW Eau Claire Blugolds Johnnies lose, 20–23
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UWEaC
Plan, practice, orchestrate and strategize. All words that describe the weekly preparation of a Football Team as they ready themselves for each Saturday. And in the end you play the game to win, nothing less. However, I think that playing the game to win, with honor and dignity, far outweigh simply doing whatever it takes to win. The end does not justify the means!
JohnnieFootball.com Tailgate Special
Back in the day one hundred years ago when Johnnie Football all got started there were probably a few monks gathered ’round a red and white checkered table cloth laid neatly somewhere with a few chucks of fresh Johnnie bread for snacking. Perhaps even a flask of choke cherry wine and some fine home brewed beer [...]
ROAD TRIP!
Despite my natural athletic ability, the rigorous academic and spiritual schedule under which I toiled while at SJU precluded me from playing football. My presence on the team in 1976 would have undoubtedly made unnecessary the late-in-the-game heroics of Jeff Norman and Jim Roeder. Quite possibly, I could have led the 1977 squad to a [...]
2010 Week 2: Wisconsin-Eau Claire
The Johnnies play their 2nd and final non-conference game of the regular season on Saturday traveling to Eau-Claire, Wisconsin for a rare 7pm gametime against the Blugolds. They are a team dominated by sophomores and juniors & as always have tremendous size. This will be a stern early season test for the Cardinal & Blue [...]
Tie Game
Tie game, Little Johnnies 6, Little Blugolds 6. I stand at the “line of scrimmage” and yell out “Red 1-Hot Route-Hot Route-Blue Pants-set-hut-set-hut-hike.” I drop back and immediately start scrambling after Blugold yells “BLITZZZ.” Johnnie 1 has broken off the line fast and executes a quick fake to the post.
