#PACtion™ 2024
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Rich Kotite
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I watched Kurt Warner's first start on the road at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnata. We left at halftime to enjoy Oktoberfest Zinzinnata.
#Hot Metts
perry1480
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along these lines, I’m kind of ok with the Slaw drama… if this helps get #PACtion™ to 10k posts.
#goals
Bluestreakoffice
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I sent a text to Dan....he probably already knew...but this is playoff week...so that is where the focus is....I will know better later this week...
Bluestreakoffice
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So what you are saying....when that Van is a rock'in...don't come a knock'in....lol
Bluestreakoffice
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I lived in St. Louis for a year and half...here is how I describe it....I found Mo. am still looking for Larry and Curly!
Mu-StangClan
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Rich Kotite
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perry1480
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made it happen… and yes you are a critical component of #PACtion
Rich Kotite
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+70,000 tuffness points
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bob99
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It would only work if Rittman isn't one of the 12 teams. I don't trust RittmanRaylan from being unbiased when it comes to his Indians.
bob99
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BLASPHEME!
bob99
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The Chicago Cardinals became the St. Louis Cardinals left St. Louis to become the Arizona Cardinals.
The Cleveland Rams became the Los Angeles Ram then the St. Louis Rams and moved back to Los Angeles.
Sounds like St. Louis Is schizophrenic. If they get another team, they should name them the Lunatics.
Bluestreakoffice
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It is always the same thing....they found misery oops I mean Missouri...lol
cuyahogacuse
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For the record, I have no affiliation with any decision makers on this stuff.
That schedule info was pulled from the Yappi 2025 schedule thread.
Just aligning expectations here.
CasualFan24
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"Next up our special guest picker on college game day....Bruce Lee Corso!!!!
perry1480
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Guys/gals there’s lots to talk about. Without forcing the issue, 1,613 posts away from 10,000 posts by December 7th, the close of the 2024 Football Season. It's a very attainable goal... though it may take some good ole fashioned trolling.
Topics of late that will help us get to the goal:
- The CVCA banner
- Manchester’s finest and alternative mascots
- Tuslaw helmet designs
- Various Tuslaw educational and athletic subjects at large
- Whether or not Smoove's reference to chicks or chickies is actually a reference to chicken as a food.
New Topic (let's bring in some Massillon Posters and maybe we can get it to 15k)
- A proposed statue of KW in the city of Massillon. When Jason Hall almost lost to a previously 0-10 2013 Perry Squad in 2014, Massillon began to sniff the stench of mediocrity. It was then that Massillon decided it could not stand for KW taking Perry to a 'ship before Massillon did and began the search that eventually led to Nate Moore. CONCLUSION: Massillon owes KW tuffness for 2023's on-the-field 'ship... discuss.
Topics of late that will help us get to the goal:
- The CVCA banner
- Manchester’s finest and alternative mascots
- Tuslaw helmet designs
- Various Tuslaw educational and athletic subjects at large
- Whether or not Smoove's reference to chicks or chickies is actually a reference to chicken as a food.
New Topic (let's bring in some Massillon Posters and maybe we can get it to 15k)
- A proposed statue of KW in the city of Massillon. When Jason Hall almost lost to a previously 0-10 2013 Perry Squad in 2014, Massillon began to sniff the stench of mediocrity. It was then that Massillon decided it could not stand for KW taking Perry to a 'ship before Massillon did and began the search that eventually led to Nate Moore. CONCLUSION: Massillon owes KW tuffness for 2023's on-the-field 'ship... discuss.
I know I started it up yesterday with some ideas on an alternate Manchester mascot, but that was just joking around. Sometimes you have to laugh at yourself.
If you want to understand the heart of the Manchester community, read the article below from today's Beacon Journal.
The great thing is that there are thousands of communities just like this across this land, this great country of ours, where thousands of "Norma Jeans" have raised their families and had sons give their lives in our defense so that we can live in freedom.
Nate Ulrich
Akron Beacon Journal
NEW FRANKLIN — Norma Jean Miller has long been drawn to football, perhaps for the sweetest reason ever associated with an inherently tough-as-nails sport.
Miller, 96, once asked her youngest daughter, Darla Smith, to take her to a peewee game because the sight of children donning football uniforms and equipment brought her joy.
“They were so cute with those helmets,” Miller said with a laugh.
Miller has watched several members of her family grow over the years from youth to high school football players.
She even has three great-grandsons on Manchester High School's playoff-bound team. They are senior wide receiver, safety and wingback Blaise Donatelli, sophomore running back and safety Lorenzo Donatelli and sophomore running back and cornerback Phil Partin II.
The Donatelli brothers and Partin are cousins.
Partin is one of Greater Akron's most prolific rushers this season with 218 carries for 1,474 yards and 25 touchdowns. As a defender, he has compiled 37 tackles, seven pass breakups and two interceptions.
Blaise Donatelli has registered 55 tackles, eight pass breakups and three interceptions to go along with four catches for 59 yards and two touchdowns. Lorenzo Donatelli has tallied 22 tackles with two pass breakups.
“They're my family, and I love them,” Blaise Donatelli said. “And the fact that we all get to play together on a great team and make plays together, it's just been real fun.”
With the trio of Miller's great-grandsons in key roles, second-seeded Manchester (9-1) is scheduled to host No. 15 Youngstown Liberty (5-5) for a Division V, Region 17 first-round postseason game at 7 p.m. Friday at the new James R. France Stadium.
It will be Manchester football's 28th appearance in the Ohio High School Athletic Association playoffs but the first since 2021. The Panthers went 0-10 in 2022 and 1-9 in 2023 before executing a dramatic turnaround and winning the PAC-7 championship this season under the guidance of second-year Manchester coach Kevin Stacy.
“The group of seniors that we have now, we've all been friends for a long time, and the whole team is just really close,” Blaise Donatelli said. “Coach Stacy, he's done a real great job with it, turning the program around.
“[Struggling from 2022-23] plays a big role in the team we are now because I think that definitely kind of inspired us to try and be better so that we wouldn't have to go through that again.”
Partin also cited team chemistry as a reason for Manchester's reversal of fortunes, and Lorenzo Donatelli added, “There was a lot of extra work put in during the offseason, like people going to the field after practice and extra lifts.”
All of those factors have combined to restore playoff time in Manchester, which has a countdown clock to Friday's kickoff displayed in the school atop a caged panther statue.
The great-grandmother of a Manchester football legacy is proud.
“I get very excited over it,” Miller said.
Born in Akron, Miller (nee Swesey) began attending school in Manchester in the third grade. Some people who have known her for a long time call her “Jeanie.” She and her late husband, Bob Miller, graduated from Manchester High School in 1946. Bob built their house by hand. Miller still lives in the same home where she and her high school sweetheart raised their four children.
Bob Miller died in 2018 at the age of 91.
“We were married 70 years, six months, three weeks and two days,” Norma Jean Miller said.
Each of their kids graduated from Manchester: Burt “Rusty” Miller (Class of 1966), Billie Jean Arny (1969), Darla Smith (1972) and Blaine Miller (1979). Rusty Miller joined the U.S. Marines shortly after high school and was killed during the Vietnam War in 1968. His three siblings joined their mother this week for an interview with the Beacon Journal at her home a short distance from where the Panthers play on Friday nights.
Miller spoke as if there is no place she would rather be than the Manchester community.
“It means everything,” she said. “As far as the comfort, the love for this area, I really do, I love it here.”
Miller has 10 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Large family gatherings have always inevitably led to kids engaging in some form of backyard football.
“Dad and mom, they loved to sit out there too and watch them play,” Billie Jean Arny said. “Football just kind of stayed in the blood.”
Miller's late younger brother, Gerald Swesey, and her youngest son, Blaine, were standout Manchester football players who were inducted into the Swede Olsson/James R. France Athletic Hall of Fame. Four of her grandsons also played football for the Panthers. In other words, Miller has nurtured three generations of Manchester student-athletes.
A member of Manchester's third graduating class, Miller has followed one of Summit County's most storied football programs since its infancy.
“When I was in high school, the school was just getting started, and our football games would be right after the last class,” she said.
Times have changed, yet Miller is still rooting for the Panthers. She bundled up with blankets next to her daughter Darla Smith as they attended Manchester's 39-0 win over Fairless on Oct. 18. Afterward, Miller posed for a photograph with her three great-grandsons who had helped the Panthers prevail.
“I told the boys, 'Great-grandma's going to be there, so don't run into the locker room. We want to get a picture,'” Smith said. “I thought, 'They're going to forget. It's boys. They're running off the field.' There they all were.”
Reflecting on Miller's presence at the Week 9 game, Partin said, “It meant a lot just that she could come out and show support for us.”
Now Miller is eager to continue cheering for Manchester in the playoffs.
If you want to understand the heart of the Manchester community, read the article below from today's Beacon Journal.
The great thing is that there are thousands of communities just like this across this land, this great country of ours, where thousands of "Norma Jeans" have raised their families and had sons give their lives in our defense so that we can live in freedom.
Norma Jean Miller's 3 great-grandsons aid Manchester's return to OHSAA football playoffs
Nate UlrichAkron Beacon Journal
NEW FRANKLIN — Norma Jean Miller has long been drawn to football, perhaps for the sweetest reason ever associated with an inherently tough-as-nails sport.
Miller, 96, once asked her youngest daughter, Darla Smith, to take her to a peewee game because the sight of children donning football uniforms and equipment brought her joy.
“They were so cute with those helmets,” Miller said with a laugh.
Miller has watched several members of her family grow over the years from youth to high school football players.
She even has three great-grandsons on Manchester High School's playoff-bound team. They are senior wide receiver, safety and wingback Blaise Donatelli, sophomore running back and safety Lorenzo Donatelli and sophomore running back and cornerback Phil Partin II.
The Donatelli brothers and Partin are cousins.
Partin is one of Greater Akron's most prolific rushers this season with 218 carries for 1,474 yards and 25 touchdowns. As a defender, he has compiled 37 tackles, seven pass breakups and two interceptions.
Blaise Donatelli has registered 55 tackles, eight pass breakups and three interceptions to go along with four catches for 59 yards and two touchdowns. Lorenzo Donatelli has tallied 22 tackles with two pass breakups.
“They're my family, and I love them,” Blaise Donatelli said. “And the fact that we all get to play together on a great team and make plays together, it's just been real fun.”
With the trio of Miller's great-grandsons in key roles, second-seeded Manchester (9-1) is scheduled to host No. 15 Youngstown Liberty (5-5) for a Division V, Region 17 first-round postseason game at 7 p.m. Friday at the new James R. France Stadium.
It will be Manchester football's 28th appearance in the Ohio High School Athletic Association playoffs but the first since 2021. The Panthers went 0-10 in 2022 and 1-9 in 2023 before executing a dramatic turnaround and winning the PAC-7 championship this season under the guidance of second-year Manchester coach Kevin Stacy.
“The group of seniors that we have now, we've all been friends for a long time, and the whole team is just really close,” Blaise Donatelli said. “Coach Stacy, he's done a real great job with it, turning the program around.
“[Struggling from 2022-23] plays a big role in the team we are now because I think that definitely kind of inspired us to try and be better so that we wouldn't have to go through that again.”
Partin also cited team chemistry as a reason for Manchester's reversal of fortunes, and Lorenzo Donatelli added, “There was a lot of extra work put in during the offseason, like people going to the field after practice and extra lifts.”
All of those factors have combined to restore playoff time in Manchester, which has a countdown clock to Friday's kickoff displayed in the school atop a caged panther statue.
The great-grandmother of a Manchester football legacy is proud.
“I get very excited over it,” Miller said.
Born in Akron, Miller (nee Swesey) began attending school in Manchester in the third grade. Some people who have known her for a long time call her “Jeanie.” She and her late husband, Bob Miller, graduated from Manchester High School in 1946. Bob built their house by hand. Miller still lives in the same home where she and her high school sweetheart raised their four children.
Bob Miller died in 2018 at the age of 91.
“We were married 70 years, six months, three weeks and two days,” Norma Jean Miller said.
Each of their kids graduated from Manchester: Burt “Rusty” Miller (Class of 1966), Billie Jean Arny (1969), Darla Smith (1972) and Blaine Miller (1979). Rusty Miller joined the U.S. Marines shortly after high school and was killed during the Vietnam War in 1968. His three siblings joined their mother this week for an interview with the Beacon Journal at her home a short distance from where the Panthers play on Friday nights.
Miller spoke as if there is no place she would rather be than the Manchester community.
“It means everything,” she said. “As far as the comfort, the love for this area, I really do, I love it here.”
Miller has 10 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Large family gatherings have always inevitably led to kids engaging in some form of backyard football.
“Dad and mom, they loved to sit out there too and watch them play,” Billie Jean Arny said. “Football just kind of stayed in the blood.”
Miller's late younger brother, Gerald Swesey, and her youngest son, Blaine, were standout Manchester football players who were inducted into the Swede Olsson/James R. France Athletic Hall of Fame. Four of her grandsons also played football for the Panthers. In other words, Miller has nurtured three generations of Manchester student-athletes.
A member of Manchester's third graduating class, Miller has followed one of Summit County's most storied football programs since its infancy.
“When I was in high school, the school was just getting started, and our football games would be right after the last class,” she said.
Times have changed, yet Miller is still rooting for the Panthers. She bundled up with blankets next to her daughter Darla Smith as they attended Manchester's 39-0 win over Fairless on Oct. 18. Afterward, Miller posed for a photograph with her three great-grandsons who had helped the Panthers prevail.
“I told the boys, 'Great-grandma's going to be there, so don't run into the locker room. We want to get a picture,'” Smith said. “I thought, 'They're going to forget. It's boys. They're running off the field.' There they all were.”
Reflecting on Miller's presence at the Week 9 game, Partin said, “It meant a lot just that she could come out and show support for us.”
Now Miller is eager to continue cheering for Manchester in the playoffs.
Was your game streamed anywhere? I would love to watch that replay!
Rich Kotite
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This is EPIC!! Come on Rich, need you to do the creative to bring this image to life. Don Draper (aka @7Diamond ) already did the heavy lifting. Just need you to draw it!
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bob99
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I ask you Rich, how tuff can Orrville be when they make a bb gun their team name? Pac tough? I don't think so!
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Those stuck in the 70's second division people all waited until after week ten to emerge and now they'll go back to the Sad Dads of Sippo Reserves club only dreaming about getting hot action from the Mini Van Moms of Kenyon Creek.
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Champion, 2024 Yappi Challenge
These mini van moms, go on…
Rich Kotite
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I remember year one of Coach Moore in 2015. The Tigers defense was a hot mess. The road game at Steubenville was a rough one, to say the least. Moral of the story: first year coaches bringing in a new culture usually have a rough first year (see Keith Wakefield round 2 in 2013, Kevin Stacy, Broc Dial, Nate Moore 2015).
That's much better than a Lori Lightfoot statue. The Lightfoot statue should be placed at the Massillon WWTP. For a longer-distance Massillon statue tribute fans can travel to the Countywide Landfill in East Sparta for the Todd Porter and Joe Shaheen statue park.
For the ultimate KW statue location, however, you need to place it in Perry Township. And there's one place in my mind that screams Perry Township and everything Perry Athletics:
While I know your intent mostly is to create #PACtion heat to drive up our posting numbers, you're actually on to something. There is NO QUESTION the success of a neighboring school and/or rival is one of the greatest motivators for schools/teams to get better unless you're Minerva.
Minerva doesn't seem to care or pay attention to the success of neighboring Malvern or United Local.
Rich Kotite
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Look, it's gonna happen. You're gonna love Skyline Chili on Steels Corners Road before or after the game at CVCA.
You're also gonna love the new Skyline Chili banners at the Royals stadium.