William Long, proudly carries his “lunchpail”

January 18, 2019 Fletcher Long 0

References to a lunchpail date back to 1890 by most accounts. It was a way for regular working men (not many women worked outside the home in the 1890s) to carry hot food with them to their blue-collar jobs. A blue-collar worker has always denoted one who performs manual labor. […]

News and Notes from the Gridiron…

May 21, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

We have begun featuring, here on KPGFootball, a weekly variety of shorter stories in one combined article about football news from around the coverage area. These articles feature snippets of information for the football enthusiasts which we consider, without a doubt, of interest to the Kentucky high school and middle school […]

How Important Weightlifting Really is to Football

February 14, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

One almost never gets a straight answer from a high school football coach on the question of the importance of strength numbers and power to the sport of high school football. If your son is super strong, you get anecdotes about some other super strong, former player, who sucked at […]

The Sophomore All-State Defensive Line

November 30, 2017 Fletcher Long 0

Yesterday, in presenting the Freshman AFI-KPG All-State Defensive Line,  I told you an anecdote about a player who played for the Chiefs for six years and then was traded to the St. Louis Rams in 2007, out of Texas A&M, named Dante Hall. You might remember he was nicknamed, The Human […]