Colter_Nuanez56
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Caught up with Pat earlier this week:
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Former Montana linebacker Patrick O'Connell playing in the Super Bowl
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Colter_Nuanez56
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5280Griz
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He is going to the first player from Glacier to play in the Super Bowl. Brock Osweiler went to Flathead as Glacier wasn’t open yet. More Glacier alums are likely to sooner rather than later with how their football program is going though.
If Nuanez can catch up with O'Connell, he must have slowed down since his college days, or have bilateral hamstring injuries.
5280Griz
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Brooks Nuanez played safety for the Griz and was all state at kick returns and track in high school. Nuanez family does have some speed.
Colter_Nuanez56
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How the F do you know?!
Haha I am incredibly slow. That's why I played on the lines LOL
You were slow by lineman standards.
and I know. lol.I also know you and I could have the slowest 40 yard race for 40 year olds now. Man I miss my youth.
grizondarez
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O’Connell pic going around of him in his Seahawks shirt as a kid. Imagine playing in the Super Bowl for the team you have loved since you were a kid. Pretty cool.
5280Griz
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Same thing happened with Brock Osweiler and the Broncos. What are the odds that Kalispell would have 2 guys go on to play for the team’s they loved as kids in the Super Bowl within a 10 year period.
Griz in Texas
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Brock Osweiler was supposed to go to Glacier his senior year, but when Grady Bennett took that job at Glacier, Osweiler managed to get a home address listed that allowed him to stay at Flathead. I watched the first game between Flathead and Glacier with Brock at QB for the Braves who won the game.
5280Griz
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Does Montana not have open enrollment? In Arizona and Colorado you can go to any public school within your district as long as it is not at capacity regardless of your address. The school buses only go into neighborhoods zoned for the schools though so you are on your own for transportation if you choose to enroll your kids in a school besides the one assigned to your address.
Missoula has open enrollment for sure. They say they don't but they do. The rules from the Montana High School Association have been circumvented by parents for decades.
5280Griz
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Arizona has had open enrollment by rule for decades. Terrell Suggs lived at an address zoned to Chandler and open enrolled to Hamilton. Dylan Raiola lived at an address zoned for Basha and open enrolled into Chandler. Brock Purdy likely would have been recruited more heavily if he transferred to a different high school in the district but he stayed at his neighborhood school Perry. Tyler Shough grew up in Hamilton’s youth program and I assume was always at a Hamilton zoned address.
Griz in Texas
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At that point in Kalispell where this happened, they wanted the kids to stay kind of North and South so they could sort of even up enrollment in the two schools. I graduated from Flathead in 1981 and we had 3 classes and the school was really crowded at that point, so imagine where it was when they finally put Glacier into play and put all four classes into both high schools. They needed to limit that as much as they could. Many of the kids wanted to finish at Flathead so they had to do something.
I lived about 2 blocks from Flathead my entire life, right by Bethel Baptist Church. If I would have had a choice as a senior, I probably would have gone to Glacier, based on the atmosphere I was getting when they opened the new school. Who your parents were, not based on what you were capable of, if you get the drift of it, that's a Kalispell kind of thing that was Flathead and why a lot of teachers left, including Lori Smithwick, mother of Shay Smithwick-Hann, the QB for Glacier in that game with Flathead and Brock Osweiler.
I didn't have kids there going to school after I came home briefly after retiring from the Army, and I don't know when it changed. A friend of mine there in Kalispell had two of his kids that went to school in Bigfork though and it was no big deal that they lived in West Valley and basically drove 25 miles, by Glacier and Flathead to get to school every day. One of the two actually considered going to Whitefish, and the other got sought out by Columbia Falls and a scholarship offer from Loyola.
I had no idea that Loyola had scholarships, but she passed on that offer under a lot of pressure.
I actually got the information on Osweiler through a guy I worked with that was a DB at Arizona State who was good friends with the coach at Flathead at the time, but Osweiler and his friends were around on several occasions. Which is a whole different story related to Four Peaks in Tempe.
Youth is fleeting. One does not get to take a second bite at the apple. You were what you were. In my case, the older I get, the better I was.You were slow by lineman standards.
I also know you and I could have the slowest 40 yard race for 40 year olds now. Man I miss my youth.
The words of this song are great for those of us from the '60s and '70s. I really like the song. Never heard it before this posting.
Thank you for posting.
Thank you for posting.
