THE MERCY RULE On Monday, October 14, 2024, I sent an email to Rico Ragsdale, the head football Coach at Milwaukee Academy of Science, telling him that his quarterback, Brayln Albritton had set a state record.  On Friday, October 11 against Kingdom Prep Lutheran Brayln tossed six 2-point conversions in a 54-0 win.  Rico responded, thanked me and then asked if I had any records of teams quitting at the halftime and what were the most in a season.  I had been thinking about thi

Before HBO-TV’s 20+ year series “Hard Knocks” that started in 2001 highlighting individual NFL football teams and before MTV’s short series in 2006 “Two-A-Days” about Hoover Alabama’s football team there was H.G. Bissinger’s book “Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and a Dream” in 1990 about the Odessa Texas team.  That book spawned a movie and several TV series.  Before all these programs arrived on the national scene there was a well-received T. V special about a Wisconsin

NOTE:  If you read Part 1 before today you would have seen that some years for the following Top 10 teams is missing.  The years for: #7, Antigo is 1976 #6. Kenosha Tremper is 1979 #5, Green Bay Premontre is 1970 #2, Fond du Lac is 1974 I have re-edited, and the years have been updated.  Sorry for the problem.                           THE TOP GAME Waukesha High School went from one extreme to another as the eighth game of t