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Post by Clemensbuff on Sept 17, 2020 6:09:43 GMT -6
picodejello you raise a story and my kids cringe when I tell it. The streets would Ice over when it snowed in Wichita Falls and it was a long distance to junior High and cars back then did not have the defrosters you have today and the back window was covered with ice and snow. When a car came by, we would duck down and grab the back bumper and let it pull us along sliding behind the car and when it turned the wrong direction we wanted to go, we would turn loose and watch for another car going our direction. My brother milked the cow before we went to school but I do know how to milk a cow. I pulled cotton when I was in the 6th grade. My mother picked cotton and that is how she met my dad. The cotton gins improved their technology when I came along and you just pulled boll and all. You dumped your sack in the wagon and tromped it down. My son in law has one of those 3/4 million dollar machines that drops it out the back like a easter egg in a round module. hahahaha Yes sir. My dad told me when they went from picking to pulling when he was a kid it was like they'd hit the damn lottery. lol Back to football...…... If we EVER laid on the ground back in the day you better have had a bone sticking out! I mean they would jump all over you if you were not seriously injured. And cramps...…...what was that? Hell, we were worked so hard in practice each week game day was a day off! I've watched practices now and let me tell you it is a joke compared to the old days. The only after practice sprints you'd see being run were by kids who received OFIs (Opportunity for improvement) for screwing up in class! smdh It is no wonder kids cramp up so much now especially early in the year.
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Post by picodegallo on Sept 17, 2020 7:16:25 GMT -6
picodejello you raise a story and my kids cringe when I tell it. The streets would Ice over when it snowed in Wichita Falls and it was a long distance to junior High and cars back then did not have the defrosters you have today and the back window was covered with ice and snow. When a car came by, we would duck down and grab the back bumper and let it pull us along sliding behind the car and when it turned the wrong direction we wanted to go, we would turn loose and watch for another car going our direction. My brother milked the cow before we went to school but I do know how to milk a cow. I pulled cotton when I was in the 6th grade. My mother picked cotton and that is how she met my dad. The cotton gins improved their technology when I came along and you just pulled boll and all. You dumped your sack in the wagon and tromped it down. My son in law has one of those 3/4 million dollar machines that drops it out the back like a easter egg in a round module. Don't tell the KIII reporter that you used to pick cotton....
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Post by gp37 on Sept 17, 2020 8:20:04 GMT -6
I pulled Cotton and there is a difference from picking. When my mom picked cotton, you picked the cotton out of the boll because the Gin at that time was not able to handle all the trash left over and the cotton was cleaner. The gins improved their technology where they could separate the cotton from the boll and then you pulled the whole boll. It was easier and it weighed more. You got paid by the pound and you weighed it in your sack and dumped it in the cotton trailer. My paternal grandma stayed in the field and weighed the cotton and my mom was picking cotton for her and met my dad. Visit to a Gin is interesting.
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Post by gpjohn on Sept 17, 2020 8:57:37 GMT -6
picodejello you raise a story and my kids cringe when I tell it. The streets would Ice over when it snowed in Wichita Falls and it was a long distance to junior High and cars back then did not have the defrosters you have today and the back window was covered with ice and snow. When a car came by, we would duck down and grab the back bumper and let it pull us along sliding behind the car and when it turned the wrong direction we wanted to go, we would turn loose and watch for another car going our direction. My brother milked the cow before we went to school but I do know how to milk a cow. I pulled cotton when I was in the 6th grade. My mother picked cotton and that is how she met my dad. The cotton gins improved their technology when I came along and you just pulled boll and all. You dumped your sack in the wagon and tromped it down. My son in law has one of those 3/4 million dollar machines that drops it out the back like a easter egg in a round module. Don't tell the KIII reporter that you used to pick cotton.... Last year some commentator got in trouble for saying “just wait a cotton-picking minute”. A cotton picking minute is a long minute! Nothing to do with race. I suspect Robstown will be changing their mascot soon
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Post by OCCNH on Sept 17, 2020 9:03:17 GMT -6
Robstown community could change it anytime they want to.
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Post by calcatgirl on Sept 17, 2020 9:42:01 GMT -6
Don't tell the KIII reporter that you used to pick cotton.... Last year some commentator got in trouble for saying “just wait a cotton-picking minute”. A cotton picking minute is a long minute! Nothing to do with race. I suspect Robstown will be changing their mascot soon I highly doubt it. Robstown residents have dug their heels in the sand over this and are prepared to fight for their mascot.
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Post by picodegallo on Sept 17, 2020 9:47:49 GMT -6
I pulled Cotton and there is a difference from picking. When my mom picked cotton, you picked the cotton out of the boll because the Gin at that time was not able to handle all the trash left over and the cotton was cleaner. The gins improved their technology where they could separate the cotton from the boll and then you pulled the whole boll. It was easier and it weighed more. You got paid by the pound and you weighed it in your sack and dumped it in the cotton trailer. My paternal grandma stayed in the field and weighed the cotton and my mom was picking cotton for her and met my dad. Visit to a Gin is interesting. You are correct.....
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Post by picodegallo on Sept 17, 2020 9:53:17 GMT -6
Last year some commentator got in trouble for saying “just wait a cotton-picking minute”. A cotton picking minute is a long minute! Nothing to do with race. I suspect Robstown will be changing their mascot soon I highly doubt it. Robstown residents have dug their heels in the sand over this and are prepared to fight for their mascot. I agree. Some of the most vocal advocates for KEEPING it actually worked the fields themselves. Or are children of those folks who express their pride for what their parents or grandparents did before them which instilled the work ethic and other values they hold today. If this was Robstown, Alabama it would have different connotations.
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Post by gp37 on Sept 17, 2020 10:01:18 GMT -6
I went to Arlington State and they changed to UTA and they were the Rebels and they changed to Mavericks and now they no longer have Football. When they were a junior college they won the junior college championship. Chickafication is alive and well and changing the name to something less manly is their goal.
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Post by gp37 on Sept 21, 2020 9:29:37 GMT -6
Gregory – Portland Independent School District Athletic Department Rick Rhoades 4601 Wildcat Dr. Athletic Director/ Head Football Portland, TX 78374 361-777-4251 Ext 6005 Principal: Kyde Eddleman Superintendent: Dr. Michelle Cavazos 8/31/2020 Gregory-Portland Wildcats 2020 District 15-5A Division I Varsity DATE OPPONENT SITE TIME Sept. 17 Steele (Scrimmage) TBA TBA Sept. 25 Calallen Away 7:30 Oct. 2 Moody * Away (Cabaniss) 7:30 Oct. 9 Carroll * Home 7:30 Oct. 16 Veterans Memorial * Away (Cabaniss) 7:30 Oct. 23 Flour Bluff * Home 7:30 Oct. 30 Victoria West * Away 7:30 Nov 6 King * (Homecoming) Home 7:30 Nov. 12 Victoria East * Away 7:00 Nov. 20 Open Nov. 27 Ray * Home 7:30 Dec. 4 Open ___________________________________________________________________________ Junior Varsity BLUE / Junior Varsity RED (Blue / Red) (Blue / Red) Sept 17 Steele (Scrimmage) TBA/TBA TBA/TBA Sept 24 Calallen Home/Home 5:00/6:30 Oct 1 ?//Moody * Home/Home 6:30/5:00 Oct 8 ?//Carroll * Away/Away 6:30/5:00 Oct 15 Veterans Memorial * Home/Home 5:00/6:30 Oct 22 Flour Bluff * Away/Away 5:00/6:30 Oct. 29 Victoria West * Home/Home 4:30/6:00 Nov 5 King * Away/Away 5:00/6:30 Nov 11 Victoria East * Home/Home 4:30/6:00 Nov 19 Open Nov. 25 Ray * Away/Away 5:00/6:30 ____________________________________________________________________________ Freshmen BLUE / Freshmen RED (Blue / Red) (Blue / Red) Sept 17 Steele (Scrimmage) TBA/TBA TBA/TBA Sept 24 Calallen Away/Away 5:00/6:30 Oct 1 Moody * Away/Away 5:00/6:30 Oct 8 Carroll * Home/Home 5:00/6:30 Oct 15 Veterans Memorial * Away/Away 5:00/6:30 Oct. 22 Flour Bluff * Home/Home 5:00/6:30 Oct. 29 Victoria West * Away/Away 4:30/6:00 Nov 5 King * Home/Home 5:00/6:30 Nov 11 Victoria East * Away/Away 4:30/6:00 Nov 19 Open Nov. 25 Ray * Home/Home 5:00/6:30
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Post by CC_Varmints on Sept 22, 2020 13:03:30 GMT -6
I lost track of the one that went to San Antonio and 5 kids from GP went to Sinton and I think 3 from one family . The mystery to me is Coach Anastacio made Coach Ouelette a assistant HC And DC and the defense has been a disaster. He seems to have never heard of the corner blitz. When Coach Rick Rhoades came to GP I heard he was a builder. Johnnys and I differ on opinion of Coach David McKinney but he was negative coaching. I suspect there is negative coaching going on at GP. Here gp37/wfc: Share this info with Coach Rhoades. Or maybe study it and give Coach Rhoades some tips and pointers. Who's the boss? At Toledo in 1990, it was 38-year-old Nick Saban ALEX SCARBOROUGH ESPN Staff Writer www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29930212/boss-toledo-1990-was-38-year-old-nick-saban?platform=amp&__twitter_impression=true
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Post by GP81 on Sept 24, 2020 13:21:48 GMT -6
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Post by wfcoyote on Oct 24, 2020 7:12:12 GMT -6
It may be a battle with GP,VW, and Moody for the 4th spot in dist and the playoffs. If Moody beats VW, that may decide it.
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Post by gp37 on Oct 28, 2020 18:58:38 GMT -6
PORTLAND – Gage Gleinig is a busy young man.
Yes, he’s the starting quarterback at Gregory-Portland, which has a nice ring to it. But he’s also ranked 26th in a 2021 class of 304, a member of the National Honor Society, Fellowship of Christian Athletes officer and trumpeter in the concert band. Junior class president for 2019-20, Gleinig also competes in UIL math meets.
This time next year, he’ll be in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M pursuing management studies.
“Ever since I was a little kid I’ve gone to A&M games,” Gleinig said. “I’ve never had another option for college. It’s always been a given that we’re going to go there. That’s always been the goal. Ever since I was in seventh grade, ‘Make good grades so you can get into A&M.’”
The “we” Gage referred to includes twin brother Gavin, who also plays varsity baseball for the Wildcats, is ranked among the Top 10 prospective graduates and plays baritone saxophone in the marching and concert bands.
They’ll room together in College Station, join the Corps of Cadets and march in the Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band.
“When we were younger, we’d fight,” Gage said. “But now, we never really disagree. I’m more outspoken and he’s quieter, but we’re both relatively common sense people. We get along. I know I can always rely on him and he knows he can always rely on me.”
Gage’s football teammates have learned the same thing. As a senior first-year starter who’s trying to garner all he can from the 2020 football experience for his teammates and himself, Gleinig understands the importance of working for dreams and building relationships. Though quite capable of toiling alone, he prefers the structure of a team environment.
“When baseball season was suspended, I thought, ‘I have six months until football season. I have weights in my garage. I’m going to hit those twice or three times a day. There’s nothing else to do,’” Gleinig recalled. “Once everything started warming up, I began meeting with the guys and throwing. I got so much better. I added 100 pounds to my squat, probably 25 to my bench and got a lot quicker, a lot faster.”
To Gleinig, sports’ greatest values come through commitment to a plan – a program that takes you where you want to go.
"I like the program. Show up every morning, lift, get after it, start your day off right. Come after school and lift, or come after school and practice. You come and you get the program and you get closer with all of your guys."
Gage Gleinig “I like the program. Show up every morning, lift, get after it, start your day off right,” Gleinig stated. “Come after school and lift, or come after school and practice. You come and you get the program and you get closer with all of your guys.
“That’s why I want to go into the Corps. That’s the program, and it’s every day. You’re building and you’re getting better together. It’s the camaraderie and the teamwork. I love that.
“That’s really what drives me. More motivation than anything else is the camaraderie.”
That support will steel G-P as the Wildcats take on second-place Flour Bluff in a District 15-5A Division I contest Friday. Through four games, Gleinig has thrown for 509 yards and five touchdowns to go with 196 ground yards and two rushing scores.
Gregory-Portland's Gage Gleinig Gregory-Portland QB Gage Gleinig He didn’t have the benefit of an expressway to the high school quarterback job. One could argue he traveled over gravel roads. B-team quarterback in seventh and eighth grade, he played outside linebacker as a freshman before moving to the middle. A lineman during two years of youth football, his weight reached 190 in junior high; today he’s a much stronger and faster 163.
“My freshman year, I was playing more defense than quarterback and I got hurt in the first game of the season. My sophomore year, I was playing defense again and got hurt again,” Gleinig said. “I didn’t really play at all my freshman and sophomore years. Just last year, as a junior, I quit playing defense and focused on being the backup quarterback.”
Third on the 2019 depth chart behind then-senior starter Jeremy Barker and classmate Devon Mauch, the setbacks and waiting only fueled Gleinig.
“I feel it made me so much hungrier,” he said. “Right now, I’m loving it, because I haven’t gotten to play much. So, right now it’s maximizing it. That’s what drove me this off-season and through all the other stuff. I want to play. It’s my year to play.
“I have a lot of guys around me with a lot of experience. A lot of guys who know what they’re doing, a lot of good players. It calms me down. The first game I was nervous. I hadn’t started a football game in a while. But after that, I settled in and I feel good now.”
Strong work habits and investing in others have been modeled for Gage, Gavin and younger brothers Gunnar and Griffin by parents Jeff and Kristie. The A&M graduates were high school sweethearts at G-P, where Jeff played defensive back in the late 1980s.
The boys also treasure their grandparents, Manfred and Kay Gleinig and Larry and Donna Kalich.
“My family’s always been very encouraging. Gavin and I have been active since we were very little, either playing soccer or baseball or football. Just doing something, that’s always been big,” Gage said. “That’s really where I’ve met my best friends, and to this day, that’s where I find the most enjoyment, hanging out with them.”
And you can do that on gravel surfaces, the expressway, or any thoroughfare in between.
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