(Wayland’s Matt St. Jean and Tony Torres, shown brutalizing traditional rivals, Weston, and greasing the skids for a gross misuse of public dough)
It’s been 31 long years since Wayland (MA) High School saw their football team advance to an E. Massachusetts Super Bowl, and later today, the Warriors will take on Marshfield in the Division 1A championship at Quincy’s Veterans Stadium.
This auspicious day will bring great joy and excitement to the lives of many of my former friends and neighbors (well, the ones who are still alive, anyway). I wish the squad, their families and rooters a successful afternoon, despite the fact the town just earmarked $300,000 in Community Preservation Act funding to build a new football field.
Though I can’t find anything in the Massachusettes Community Preservation Act that precludes such use, surely there are better ways of spending the money. A 30 foot statue of me, for instance. Or perhaps, a major review of the school curriculum that would ensure the town has more to crow about than a goddman high school football title.
please tell me the nickname for wayland high is the smithers.
and when the hell did they stop playing the superbowl games at foxboro? i have a hazy memory of driving down there with my dad to watch my hometown team get trounced by plymouth-carver in the early ’80s. i think the hometown team went back again when i was in high school but those memories are a lot more hazy.
not sure when or if they stopped playing the superbowl in foxboro — maybe around the time the old place was closed and the Razor was errected?
back in my day, the Div.III title was contested on the lovely astroturf of Nickerson Field. The same pitch where Pele sprained his ankle making his NASL debut, believe it or not.
didn’t nickerson field have that hideous blue carpet? i remember going to an eastern mass field hockey tourney there. almost 17 years later and still nothing hazy about that memory.