[Lambert #1]

I am from Letcher County and love those young Cougar boys to death. However, in all due respect to Leonardo and GreenWave Fan there is no way you can say that Letcher is a better team. I do feel the same as all three of you including Mama Bear that the teams are very equal and it would probably be a split in a 10 game series but I really do not think the 8-6 game solved the magical question of which team is better than the other. Actually the score board said that New Harlan was two points better than Letcher on that given night so I would have to say at this point in the season they are a little better as a team. I do feel that this loss will only bring that young Cougar team together and their best football is yet to be played. I think that Letcher came away with a little more than New Harlan did. Yes New Harlan won and in most people's eyes they were supposed to win. The Cougars proved to themselves that they belong with the elite boys at the top last night. With the team only being together for one month or so I think some of the kids from the West Letcher team needed to know they belong with the big boys and that was proved. I think the boys from East Letcher that took a beating at the hands of the Patriots last year found out that they can hang with the big boys and the kids from Whitesburg knew how it felt to win 12 in a row last year to only have the rug jerked out from underneath them needed this early loss to get the monkey off their backs. So I feel that the Letcher team will play much better and may just run off 9 or so wins in a row and win that title that Whitesburg had ripped away from them last year by Perry Central in their last game. Remember ladies and gentlemen sometimes you can learn a whole lot more from a good loss than you can form a sloppy win. Oh yeah, I would love to see this same game played again on a neutral field with neutral refs in early October, man that would be a game I would pay a few extra dollars to watch.
God I love defense and these two teams bring it like a small high school group does around playoff time.