When Lions Were Kings II

Game 2 in 1968 took us to Ogden, Utah.  After a 58-0 opening game win, you can imagine that the coaches had trouble convincing us we were human.  We found out we were on a hot Friday afternoon in Utah.

It was an odd game.  First of all, I hated day games.  I mean, high school football is meant to played at night.  You know, like Friday Night Lights.  We had 4 day games that season that season -- 2 in Pocatello, 1 in Twin Falls and this one in Ogden.  This game didn't feel like a real game.  But it was, and we almost didn't wake up soon enough.  Another odd thing, at least for Borah teams, was that Ogden was stubborn all three times we got inside the 10-yard line.  On our first drive we had to kick a field goal, and the next 2 drives I called pass plays on third down.  Fortunately, Don Minter and B.J. Johnson made catches both times.  Ogden scored 3 times in the first half and we were down 19-16 at half.  You can read the article below.  We had a big second half.  Between Tom Hickey and me we threw 5 touchdown passes, which was a school record at the time for td passes in a game.

Years later, maybe 10 years ago, I heard an interesting story from my parents.  Student buses were taken to the game, and Mom and Dad were chaperones on one of them.  They still remembered it over 30 years later.  Mom particularly remembered the girls singing much of the way back, including some of the songs from the Sound of music.

Speaking of singing, I remember getting on the bus and after games at Bronco stadium and John Steppe leading us in singing the Borah alma mater. I think there might have been another song that got sung, too, with lyrics that probably weren't family friendly.