[Mr. Right]

Last year's game was a tale of two halves. Russell dominated the 1st half, and Belfry dominated the 2nd half. In the end, Russell did enough damage in the 1st half to preserve the win.

The thing that goes unmentioned by most Belfry fans is that the score could have been a lot worse at halftime if not for a miraculous play by Matt Maynard and one coaching blunder by Ivan McGlone. I think everyone there remembers Matt's play that saved a TD, so I'll not elaborate on that. But at the end of the half Russell was on the Belfry two yard line with plenty of time to line up and call two running plays that I'm fairly confident would have gotten them a TD. Instead, Coach McGlone showed he is human and capable of making a mistake by calling a pass play that resulted in a big sack keeping Russell out of the endzone.

Those two plays kept Russell from going into halftime with a 34-0 lead, and instead kept the game in reach. In my opinion, that kind of lead would have demoralized the Pirates and we wouldn't have seen the same 2nd half that we did in 2005. So if you want to talk about what could have been, this has to be mentioned.

Bottom line...the better team won that night.