The Rye Football team plays their final home game of the 2025 regular season on Friday, October 17, as they welcome the Nyack Redhawks to Nugent Stadium.
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For the game preview, we turn to the Steve “The OG” Feeney, the voice of Garnet football:
RYE’S GARNET & BLACK HOST THE BLACK & RED of the NYACK RED HAWKS (F/K/A INDIANS) on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 @ 7:00PM @ NUGENT STADIUM
In Rye’s final regular season home contest, the Garnets host long-ago Rockland County adversary, the NYACK RED HAWKS, formerly known as the Indians. Teepee tales tell us that many moons ago these braves fearfully populated the Garnets schedules on an annual frequency. Fans recall that during this 2023 regular season, the mid-season game with the Red Hawks, originally scheduled as a “home” tilt for Rye, was forced to relocate across the TZ Bridge to Nyack due to the flooding of the Nugent turf. The transition was seamless, while Rye’s turf field was not. In recent years, both regular season games and playoff contests, Rye, with superior weaponry, have ducked the Red Hawk talons and extended Rye’s series dominance to 17-5-0 (.773).
It will be a monochromatic experience Friday night as both teams sport uniforms of red, black and white. The Nyack Red Hawks soar into Nugent with talons primed for an upset of the Section One – Class A – #1 – ranked Rye Garnets. But on Friday night, it is the Garnets who feather their Nugent nest. The Audubon Society says climate change is a threat to the Red Hawk’s survival. The Old Garnet advises that hawk habitats are safer on the Rockland side of the Hudson.
GARNETS TRIM THE HAWK TALONS – 42-14
CAULK THE HAWKS BALK THE HAWKS FAULT THE HAWKS GAUK THE HAWKS
