Season's winding down...good luck to those still working!

[Mike Simonds]

In Hawaii some of the high schools used to play on Thanksgiving or over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. They don't do this anymore for two reasons: the high school soccer and basketball seasons start around the same time.

So now the only high school football going on for the next 3 weekends are the Division I and II play-offs and championship game on December 3rd.

Pop Warner still plays season-ending bowl games the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving.

I have fond memories of visiting my cousin who was an assistant coach at Barnstable High School on the Cape in Mass. about 20 years back. Those aluminum bleacher seats can get mighty cold on the ole back-side thats for sure!

But a season ending Thanksgiving day game is a nice tradition and I wish that the high schools here would still have them but with the new play-off system I don't see it happening anytime soon.