The weatherman fully cooperated.
As August turned into Septembe, there was more than one morning your old friend T.D. Pointer was scurrying around Pointer Manor, digging through a trunk for his letterman sweater.
There was a chill in the air that could only signal one thing. High school football season is starting up.
Pointer has experienced more opening weeks of football than Carter has little liver pills. That alone is proof of how old T.D. is. Is there a more outdated reference than Carter Little Liver Pills?
Regardless, your old prognosticating buddy never fails to get excited about this time of year. Because T.D. has the unbeatable one-two punch of all-knowing and knowing all, there are no surprises.
But to the rest of you, who will be the surprise teams? Who will be the athletes who saw limited playing time in 2011 that will step up and be major players this time around?
T.D. has spent the last two weeks driving around MetroWest, observing practices and scrimmages.
In the spy business, it?s called being "in the wind." Pointer slips in and out of these venues undetected. He watches for a short time, occasionally jotting down notes and then ? poof ? he?s gone.
You might say that TD is contradicting himself. Pointer is just checking on how accurate his prognosticating is. Not to brag, but Pointer has been pretty much spot on.
Besides, it allows for some quality time in the car for yours truly and Little Two-Point, who is rapidly closing in on the rocky adolescent years.
Pointer loves all high school sports, but my true love is high school football. No other sport has the pageantry and excitement of high school football.
I can hardly wait for the teams to line up on their respective sidelines, helmets off and at their side, nervously shifting from one foot to the other.
The band will play the familiar strains of the Star Spangled Banner. Somewhere in MetroWest, the Pointer Sisters will deliver a rendition of that time-honored song that will send a chill up my spine.
Then the ball will be in the air, and for about two hours all will be right with the world.
Here are the games?
Tonight, the Bay State Conference will see host Natick best Brookline and Framingham come home from Wellesley with a win.
In their annual donnybrook, Milford will send Franklin home on the wrong side of the score.
There are some very interesting non-league matchups tonight. They include Wayland defeating Millis-Hopedale, Gardner over Hudson, Ashland besting Marian, Marlborough falling to Central Catholic, Watertown losing to Bellingham, Holliston taking down Stoughton and Hopkinton topping Newton South.
In other offerings tonight, Nauset will beat Dover-Sherborn, Medway will fall to Hingham, Keefe Tech will lose to St. Clement, Assabet will topple Millbury, Algonquin will get tripped up by Burncoat and Uxbridge will take down Ayer.
In a limited Saturday slate, Nipmuc will down Grafton, Valley Tech will top Tri-County and Lincoln-Sudbury will come back from Tewksbury without a win.
T.D. Pointer is a Daily News correspondent.
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