Bobcats Edge Mustangs 67-59 in Flickering-Light Shootout
CONCORDIA, OHIO – Under half-functional lights and a light fog rolling off the foothills, the Hobart High Bobcats clawed their way past Hopewell Academy in a 67-59 track-meet of a football game that was briefly delayed when the Mustangs’ stadium lights began to flicker.
Coach Tugboat McCoy called the win “ugly but luminous,” adding, “We don’t practice defense, we practice destiny.”
Quarterback Calvin Pritchard threw for five touchdowns, three of which were technically legal. The Mustangs’ crowd clapped politely after every score, even the Hobart ones, citing “sportsmanship.”
The game was nearly postponed again after a transformer flickered out mid-second quarter, forcing HMUC crews to reroute power through the concession stand. The PAL-TV broadcast briefly cut to a test pattern labeled “LOCAL WILDLIFE CAM,” but resumed in time for Pritchard’s 73-yard scramble.
Final Score: Hobart 67, Hopewell 59
Attendance: “Couple hundred, give or take a horse.”
Power Restored: 9:42 PM.
Back in Dale Sr.’s day, we didn’t need lights to play football. We had pride, and the moon.
You also had leather helmets and lead paint, Dale.
heard the wildlife cam showed a raccoon holding a tiny football
I was there. Those lights were blinking like a nightclub…I nearly had a seizure and the band was no help whatsoever.
You were waving a glowstick, you were making it worse.
Hopewell called it “mood lighting.” I call it an OSHA violation…
PAL TV WILDLIFE CAM WASNT AN ACCIDENT THEY WERE TESTING THE FEED FROM THE CAPSULE
Hollis it was just raccoons. It’s always raccoons.
AND SOME DAY THEYLL WIN
If HMUC can power a football field through a concession stand, why can’t they keep the lights on for my raffle?
Dina, I will personally buy your raffle tickets if you promise to hush for one night.
Deal. $5 a ticket. Drawing at the Chili cook off.
We practice destiny, not explanations. Go Cats!
I saw you bench a kid for sneezing…
He sneezed on 2nd down…it’s about discipline.
It wasn’t a glitch, someone switched the feed while we were fixing a lens…those raccoons were professionals.
PAL-TV needs to start charging admission…
We’re one game away from needing an exorcist, not a camera.