By Don Seeley
dseeley@pottsmerc.com
BUCKTOWN — There is no championship on the line.
Pride, well, that’s another thing entirely.
Pottstown has an opportunity to finish with its best Pioneer
Athletic Conference run in five years and close out the program’s first
non-losing season in nine years. Owen J. Roberts has an opportunity to
put the brakes on a five-game slide and rev up some much-needed
confidence and momentum for next year.
All that — sparked even more by the competitive on-field (as well
as off-field) fires that have always heated up this series — will supply
the drama for this morning’s 54th renewal of their Thanksgiving Day
rivalry at Owen J. Roberts High School.
“This is my sixth Thanksgiving game, and we’ve really learned to
embrace the tradition,” Pottstown head coach Brett Myers said. “As I
mentioned last year, the Thanksgiving game is very big for us. It’s like
a bowl game. We don’t worry about records; we worry about the game as
its own entity.”
“I told our players after our last game (a 28-21 loss to Upper
Merion on Nov. 9) that we need to go out with a big win,” Owen J.
Roberts head coach Tom Barr said. “A win will benefit next year’s team
in starting off with good movement forward. I told them if they care
about this team, and OJR football, they have to work hard for a win in
helping your teammates and all the players before them.”
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