December 2025
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 2025 Season Review—The Epiblog
December 29, 2025 | Guy Smith
We started the blog in 2021 as PA Football News redshirt freshmen. Five years later, we graduate as fifth-year seniors. Senior citizens, that is. After being shut out of most 2020 games due to COVID, with games being canceled or played without spectators, when the 2021 season was about to begin Guy emailed Billy Splain […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 2025 All Snack-Bar Team
December 22, 2025 | Guy Smith
Welcome to the 5th and final Guy & Pam All-Snack Bar Team. Will we see a repeat champion for the first time, or will another first-time winner emerge? In actual on the field action last weekend, Villanova, the final PA team playing for a championship, lost in their home semifinal game to the Illinois State […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Kutztown Season Ends at 14-1
December 15, 2025 | Guy Smith
We thought our football season was over with the PIAA 3A title game after Avonworth defeated the Northwestern Lehigh Tigers. But the Kutztown University Golden Bears won their D2 Super Region for the second time in three years and advanced to the national semifinals. We still figured our season to be over, as the Golden […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Southern Lehigh Gets First State Championship
December 8, 2025 | Guy Smith
This past weekend we put a wrap on the 2025 high school football season here in Pennsylvania with the six state championship games at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg. As fans, there are still a number of things we liked better about having the games at Hershey, but we have become very comfortable with […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: D11 Puts a Pair in the Finals
December 2, 2025 | Guy Smith
For the first time in 19 years, District 11 has two teams in the state championship finals. In 4A, Southern Lehigh rode a roller coaster of a game, scoring 21, giving up 24, then taking the lead in the final minute for the second week in a row to score a comeback win. And in […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Choices, Choices
November 25, 2025 | Guy Smith
Last weekend were the state quarterfinal games. Four District 11 champions advanced: Williams Valley in 2A, Northwestern Lehigh in 3A, Southern Lehigh in 4A, and Easton in 6A. Unfortunately, all four played on Friday at 7:00, meaning Guy could only attend one game. Pam was at a conference in Washington, DC Wednesday through Saturday. Which […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 12 Straight Thursdays: Thank You D11
November 18, 2025 | Guy Smith
Not more than a few years ago, a Thursday night high school football game was a rare and special treat. It was like adding an extra week to the season, as we could go to another game. Fast forward to 2025. District 11 gave us Thursday games for TWELVE (!) consecutive weeks, the streak finally […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 57 Years Later
November 11, 2025 | Guy Smith
And yet another football week in the books with four games attended. On Thursday we headed to Southern Lehigh for the D11 4A semifinal. Of all the districts in the entire state, District 11 was the only one with Thursday games last week. Do we live in the best district or what!? On Friday we […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Round One Rematches
November 4, 2025 | Guy Smith
Once again, our weekend included four football games and a race. Although there are no more Monday JV games, we were able to easily double up on Saturday. Three of the four games attended featured rematches from the regular season. This is the reason we are not overly keen on the first round of the […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Are There Too Many Teams in the Playoffs?
October 28, 2025 | Guy Smith
This past week we again attended four games as the regular season ended after ten weeks of football. That meant the final game for some teams, as well as for all of the JV squads. In District 11, the vast majority of teams make the playoffs. Some say too many, and we tend to agree. […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: “Fifty in Five” JV Milestone
October 21, 2025 | Guy Smith
Four games for us this week, along with two races. Guy reached a milestone on Monday, attending his 50th JV game in our five years writing the blog for “PA Football News.” We don’t believe that anyone supports District 11 Junior Varsity football teams like we do. Unfortunately, things are not at all well in […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Southern Lehigh Now 23-0
October 14, 2025 | Guy Smith
Four football and one race for us this week. All four football were District 11 high school, three varsity, one JV. We were able to score a new stadium as the Southern Lehigh Spartans traveled outside of D11 for a JV game at Strath Haven High School. For the second time this year, Southern Lehigh’s […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Pates Open Bethlehem City Championship Series by Shutting out Becahi
October 7, 2025 | Guy Smith
Five to four to just three football games for Guy & Pam last weekend, plus three races. All three football games were D11 high school, two varsity on Thursday and Friday, and a JV Monday. We were actually able to attend all three on our original schedule this week. Once again, the JV game was […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Southern Lehigh’s Culture of Winning
September 30, 2025 | Guy Smith
After a couple straight weeks of five football game weekends, this past week it was “only” four, as the Saturday evening slot was occupied by the races at the Mahoning Valley Speedway (three weeks left in their season) and Sunday by Guy & Pam participating in an UltraTrek Hike in New Jersey. The Thursday and […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Football for Five / 39 Years Later
September 23, 2025 | Guy Smith
The previous week Pam and Guy went to five football games in five days, but that was two Saturday, none Sunday. This week we again went to five games, and this week it was one game per day for five straight days. One of those five games was a college JV game. Pam had never […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Five for Five
September 16, 2025 | Guy Smith
We went five for five in high school football games from Thursday – Monday. Also during that same five-day period, we went to two auto races and participated in a pair of charity events: ASHA Foundation Virtual 5K and a three-mile walk in Allentown for Pancreatic Cancer Research. During that same five days, Guy went […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Guy’s Back (Pun Intended)
September 9, 2025 | Guy Smith
After a rather intense week consisting of physical therapy, multiple chiropractor visits, gym visits, and targeted exercises, Guy was “back” from herniated disc hindrances, and able to attend at least all spectator events scheduled. That included five high school football games, a pair of races, and college volleyball. Even with missing two games the week […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Let’s Pretend
September 2, 2025 | Guy Smith
We were all set for three high school varsity games, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Unfortunately, Guy injured his back and has been in almost constant severe pain since Wednesday. Unable to withstand a long car ride and barely able to walk, plans for Thursday through Monday all had to be cancelled. We did manage to […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: One More Time
August 26, 2025 | Guy Smith
We went back and forth during spring and summer as to whether or not we wanted to continue to write the weekly blog for PA Football News this fall, but after doing it four years, five seemed a nice round number so with the blessing of the boss Billy Splain (Rock on, brother!), whom we […]
Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: 2024 Annual Review
December 30, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024.34. We started the blog in 2021 as “PA Football News” freshmen. Four years later, we graduate as seniors. This is the 34th week we blogged about football this year, well above half of the weeks for the entire year. Not too shabby! Guy made it to 64 football games this season, just a bit […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: 2024 All Snack Bar Team
December 23, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 33. Just for fun after the 2021 season, we came up with our first District 11 All Snack Bar Team, since one of the ways we try to support local high school football is to eat dinner at the games. Readers got a big kick out of it, and our Snack Bar of […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: The Only Game in Town
December 17, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 32. We thought that our 2024 football season was over a week earlier when Northwestern Lehigh scored in overtime to defeat Avonworth for the PIAA 3A state championship. We thought wrong. After the NCAA D3 Susquehanna River Hawks upset the Saint John’s Johnnies in Minnesota, we looked at the bracket to see where […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: 3A GOLD!
December 10, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 31. Since Guy retired in 2015, he has gone to all the state championship games at all classifications. If he had gone to all six games this year, he would have set a new personal record for the number of football games seen in a year. But this year was different. Pam had […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: And Then There Was One
December 3, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 30. Pam’s knee replacement rehab is going well, ahead of schedule actually. She was able to walk a mile on day 11, and flexion measured at 92 degrees, both ahead of the two-week benchmark goals. She made it to Bethlehem for Thanksgiving dinner with her stepfather, but she was not ready for football […]
Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: A Saturday Double
November 27, 2024 | Guy Smith
2024 Episode 29. Pam’s knee replacement surgery went well, and she is hitting the rehab hard, already ahead of all benchmark metrics for one week out. However, it is likely she will miss the last three weeks of the high school season. With Guy solo, he initially chose three sporting events for the weekend: High […]
