The OG on Rye Football: Garnets Host the Nyack Red Hawks, Friday, September 29th at 7:00pm
The Garnets host the Nyack Red Hawks for a &:00pm game this Friday, September 29th at Nugent Stadium. Out of town? Watch the game.
Miss our Rye Lifer interview with Rye football Coach Dino Garr? Read it!
For the game preview, we turn to the Steve “The OG” Feeney:
RYE GARNETS HOST THE NYACK RED HAWKS (F/K/A INDIANS) – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 @ 7:00PM @ NUGENT STADIUM
This Friday the Garnets host long-ago Rockland County adversary, the NYACK RED HAWKS, formerly known as the Indians. Teepee tales tell us many moons ago these braves fearfully populated the Garnets schedules on an annual frequency. With superior weapons Rye dodged the arrows while remaining safe in their covered wagons defensively firing buckshot to defend a 14-5-0 (.737) comfortable series control.
Mimicking the growing movement in professional and collegiate athletics to change nicknames and mascots to politically correct nomenclature, local high schools, assisted by edicts and threats from the New York State Department of Education, have followed that trend. Now Section One has the Ossining Pride, formerly the “O” and before that the Indians, the John Jay – Cross River Indians who now compete as the Wolves following a student-body referendum, and the Mahopac Indians who face a mascot change decision versus reduced state aid funding from Albany. Following these actions, and those taken by St John’s University, who also became the Red Hawks, the Nyack Board of Education, in one 2019 motion, transformed the once-proud Indians into the Nyack Red Hawks.
It will be a monochromatic experience Friday night as both teams sport uniforms of red, black and white. The Red Hawks soar into Nugent hoping to peck the Garnets, currently ranked #8 section-wide by the Journal News, into submission. It will be the Garnets returning to the black side of the ledger, and on Friday night the Garnets feather their Nugent nest.
PUT YOUR WAMPUM ON THE GARNETS – 35-6
