PA Football News Archives
October 2023
ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge Regular Season Finale
October 27, 2023 | Marcus Sic
BATTLE OF UNDEFEATEDS TOP THIS WEEK’S FIELD As the regular season come to a close there are four battles of undefeated teams on this week’s card of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge. These games will decide league championships, seedings for the upcoming District tournaments, they will also decide if the OG of Pennsylvania high school football […]
Protime Predictions – Protime Hearkens Back to the Days of Yore
October 26, 2023 | Phil Myers
On occasion Protime loves to hearken back to the days of yore and wax nostalgic. As Mary Hopkin sang back in 1968, “those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end.” Protime and brothers Protime used to love watching Captain Kangeroo, Tom and Jerry, the Bugs Bunny Show, etc. In fact, Protime still […]
Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Top Rusher Edition
October 25, 2023 | Phil Myers
Protime’s weekly column that will attempt to get readers up to date on current football facts, stats, and miscellaneous tidbits of information from across the entire state of Pennsylvania. My crack staff of one will peruse some, but not all newspapers and other sources for hopefully what will be up to date scoop on the […]
ProTime Pick’em Challenge Week 9 Results
October 25, 2023 | Marcus Sic
NINE WEEKS DOWN As we tally up the results of week 9 of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge it has become abundantly clear that Billy the Bossman is going to take the regular season title. With only one week to go in the regular season Billy leads with 81 wins, Alex is second just 2 behind […]
ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge WEEK 9 REGULAR SEASON TITLE UP FOR GRABS
October 19, 2023 | Marcus Sic
DOWN THE STRECH THEY COME As we near the end of the high school football regular season the top of the table is getting tighter putting the regular season title of the ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge clearly in the sites of half of our panel. Sadly Bossman Billy has retained his lead with 72 correct guesses, […]
Protime Predictions – Pet Peeves
October 19, 2023 | Phil Myers
Protime had a nice conversation with a long-time friend a couple weeks back. During the chat, Protime’s pal mentioned that he had a pair of boxers named Peeves One and Peeves Two. He usually only took one of his dogs at a time on a walk because he had trouble controlling them. When he ran […]
PROTIME PICK’EM CHALLENGE RESULTS WEEK8 THE PANEL HEATS UP
October 17, 2023 | Marcus Sic
PANEL MAKES A COMEBACK After back-to-back pitiful performances by the ProTime Pick’em Challenge Panel, the group made a strong comeback picking 127 winners out of a possible 168 games for an impressive 76% winning percentage. After consecutive weeks of 93 then 103 correct guesses, the tally of 127 is one of the best in challenge […]
ProTimes Pick’em Challenge Week Eight Consensus Week?
October 12, 2023 | Marcus Sic
CONSENSUS AMONG THE PANEL NOT NECESSARILY A GOOD THING As we enter week 7 of the Pennsylvania High School Football season, week 8 of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge, there seems to be an air of consensus among the Ouija boards of our expert panel. The writers in half of this week’s slate are unanimous or […]
Protime Predictions – Five One Point Losses
October 12, 2023 | Phil Myers
Last week Protime lost eight games, which happens, but five of them were by one point. That has never happened to the Proud Prognosticator before, never. Protime spent the whole week contemplating his error and the good fortune of those five teams he picked against. Time and time again the final scene from Rocky III […]
ProTime Pick’em Challenge Week Seven’s Results
October 11, 2023 | Marcus Sic
DOWN GOES MARCUS-BILLY ROCKETS TO THE TOP Following a Trap Week that didn’t disappoint, the crew was hoping this week would be Comeback Week…it was not. Leading the charge to the bottom was yours truly Marcus and Jared collecting a pitiful 5 wins out of 12 games. The panel as a whole was only […]
WEEK 7 of PFN’S ProTime Pick’em Challenge
October 5, 2023 | Marcus Sic
COMEBACK WEEK? After a disastrous week for our expert guessers last week, can this week prove to be the week where the panel turns it all around? Will this week be pronounced COMEBACK WEEK or will the panel fall back into mediocracy once again? My guess is Protime the OG of Pennsylvania HS football prognostication, […]
Protime Predictions – Protime Used to Play Hooky
October 5, 2023 | Phil Myers
Protime wants to know if anyone out there in cyber land ever ‘played hooky’ from school? Protime also wonders if the younger generation even knows what that means? Protime was an advanced hooky player. In fact, he once spent a whole day in a neighbor’s garage when he was in third grade. He can’t remember […]
WEEK SIX of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge TRAP WEEK WORKED!!
October 3, 2023 | Marcus Sic
Trap Week Does Not Disappoint Week six of the PFN ProTime Pick’em Challenge was dubbed TRAP WEEK because of the seemingly easy picks that were on the docket, those “easy picks” turned week 6 of the lowest winning percentage ever in the Challenge. Coming into week 6 the panel was cruising along at a 70% […]
WEEK 5 of the Protime Pick’em Challenge
September 29, 2023 | Marcus Sic
TRAP WEEK Every year teams face games they seemingly should win, but for some reason they do not. There is usually something outside of the white lines that effects one or both of the teams; previous games, an upcoming game, Homecoming dances, and upcoming games to name a few of the distractions that high […]
Protime Predictions – Protime’s Trip
September 28, 2023 | Phil Myers
Last week Protime decided he needed a break, so he went on a vacation with Mrs. P to Noah’s Ark and Creation in Kentucky. His question is this, ‘is it really a vacation if you are retired?’ That aside, Protime decided to get involved with the wildlife sections of each destination. He got to pet […]
ProTime Pick’em Panel’s Week 5 Results PERFECTION
September 26, 2023 | Marcus Sic
MAYHEM and Billy the Bossman are Perfect Week 5 of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge featured two of PFNs savants going a perfect 12-0, MAYHEM and Billy the Bossman were able to achieve perfection, vaulting them to 1-2 in the season long standings. MAYHEM takes the pole position with 45 wins, Billy is in second with […]
WEEK FIVE OF PROTIME’S PICK’EM CHALLENGE
September 21, 2023 | Marcus Sic
Six Matchups of Undefeated Teams top this Week’s Challenge As we enter week 5 of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge natural order seems to have been restored with the O.G. Protime claiming his spot on top of the mountain. The other panel members better shine their Ouija Boards, sharpen their darts or visit their favorite […]
Protime Predictions – Passing on His Class Reunion
September 21, 2023 | Phil Myers
Protime is showing his age here, but the show must go on as they say. His 50th high school class reunion is coming up and as much as he’d like to go (he’s never been to any of the prior ones), he just can’t pull the trigger. Protime knows if he and the lovely Mrs. […]
Protime Climbs to the Top of the Pick’em Challenge
September 19, 2023 | Marcus Sic
PANEL STAYS ON FIRE Well that didn’t take long! After week four Protime has elevated to the top of the table of the ProTime Pick’em Challenge. With the sage of Pennsylvania football going 9 out of 12 on his weekly picks, his season win total has raised to 35 enough to take a 1 game […]
The Protime Panel takes a shot at 12 Week 4 games, will their leader assume the lead?
September 14, 2023 | Billy Splain
So many great games on the list this week. Protime picks the games (and usually the winners) but right now, to steal a quote from Yoda, “there is another”. Will the force be with padiwan Marcus Sic? Or will the jedi master of picks strike him down? There are many young football jedi’s hoping to […]
Protime Predictions – Protime Locks Himself Out
September 14, 2023 | Phil Myers
Earlier this week Protime was feeling great. He was heading off to the gym to fellowship with the gym rats for a while. Later when he left the gym, he didn’t feel so great. He couldn’t find his keys and it was clouding up like it was going to rain cats and dogs. Had one […]
PFN’s ProTime Panel’s Week Three Results
September 12, 2023 | Marcus Sic
After a Slow Start the Panel Turns Red Hot Week three proved to be a saga of ice cold and red hot for PFN’s ProTime Panel. The panels Ouija Boards were ice cold to start the week, going a miserable 5 for 56, a .089 winning percentage, the entire panel whiffed on two games, picking […]
ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge Week 3 Selections
September 7, 2023 | Marcus Sic
Week 3 Brings Some Big Time Matchups Week three of PFN’s ProTime Pick’em Challenge will feature early season match ups match up that will have playoff implications in November. Harrisburg High will travel down to Lancaster County to take on Manheim Township, both teams are off to quick starts at 2-0, with convincing lopsided wins. […]
Protime Predictions – Protime is Burning Out
September 7, 2023 | Phil Myers
On occasion, Protime doesn’t know whether he’s coming or going. Mrs. P always points him in the right direction because that’s just the way she is. (It’s usually outside or down to the basement to get him out of her hair.) Protime covers a game or two each week (12 the first week), does district […]
ProTime Pick’em Panel Week 1 Results
September 6, 2023 | Marcus Sic
ProTime Pick’em Panel Red Hot Week One Results PFN’s panel of high school football writers were red hot with their “educated” guesses for week one, picking an incredible 133 winners out of 168 games for a preposterous .792 winning percentage. Apparently Protime Phil was not happy with his third place effort last week, rumor has […]
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