My Dream Match up: Wayland Wildcats vs. Catholic Central Cougars

For the first 11 years of my life all I knew in terms of High School football was Catholic Central Football. Two of my cousins played for Catholic Central and one of them was in the Marching Band so I always went to the games. My favorite place to watch Catholic Central was at Houseman Field. Catholic Central is where a lot of my family members went and it is where I was suppose to go to.

In 1996, I moved to Wayland but when it came to football my heart was still with Catholic Central. However at the time when I moved to Wayland, their Head Coach was Coach Ward, the former coach of Catholic Central. How Ironic is that? I had never met Coach Ward until after he retired. He remembered one of my cousins who had played under him. I thought that was cool. So here I am 23 years old, 12 years later and the game I’ve wanted to see is going to happen on October 17th. Too bad I’ll be out of state and won’t be able to see it, however my mind will be wondering about the game.

I’ve told many friends this, if they play each other again I will not sit on either side because Wayland is where I have graduated from but Catholic Central is who I grew up watching. The one cool thing is that they are in the same conference now so it goes way beyond football. I look foward to all the Wayland/Catholic Central meetings this year in all the sports. Go Wildcats and go Cougars, may the best team win