2009 Commerce Tiger Football Schedule

2009 Football Schedule (download more detailed pdf)

Date	Opponent	Location	Score
08/28/09	Jefferson	Away
09/04/09	Morgan County	Home
09/11/09	Franklin County	Away
09/25/09	Lincoln County	Home
10/02/09	Athens Academy	Home
10/09/09	Athens Christian	Away
10/16/09	Wesleyan	Away
10/23/09	Lakeview Academy	Home
10/30/09	Social Circle	Away
11/06/09	Prince Avenue Christian	Home

Commerce Possibly AA

There’s a little talk about Commerce going to Class AA at some point. The gates from all the local games that would be in the Tigers’ region would be nice indeed. The region title would be within reach each year as well. The playoffs might be rough but really there are only a couple AA teams that are unbeatable in recent years …. Buford and Charlton County.

Why Football Gets More

I sometimes hear people in the news complaining about why different sports don’t get either the attention or the funding that football does. As for the limited personal experience I have in our area, this is what I know. Each coach at Commerce that I have heard talk about the subject of funding for their sports has said this, and I am paraphrasing, “Coach Savage makes sure we get whatever we need”.

Lesser sports get less funding and attention. It is very much like the free market. Products and services that please the most people make those companies lots of money. It is a free exchange of money for products. If 100,000 people show up to each Tennessee Vols home football game and only 1500 for to each Lacrosse game, who do you think deserves more attention or funding? The answer is obvious. I don’t care about the word “fair” either. No such thing in this world as “fair”. You get what you get. If you want more go work harder in the area in which you think you deserve more. So if the Vols Lacrosse team wants more money devoted to their program they need to sell more tickets or raise money solely for their sport.

Football is king in this country. If not for football many colleges and high schools could not afford to have much of an athletic program or maybe a program at all. For the nine years I have operated the Commerce Tigers.com website I have asked people to send in any information from sports other than football so I can post it. I have gotten almost no response from fans or readers of this website. I would love to post information on other sports but I am not a reporter so it is up to the fans to promote their sports. The coaches I have contacted have been very helpful in submitting information or even doing interviews.

Football is the fountain from which other sports drink from in most athletic programs. I hope people realize this before condemning the attention and funding that America’s True Favorite Pastime gets.

Bridge Painting

I wonder when the bridge painting started. Of course I mean the bridge between Jefferson and Commerce. It goes on each year where students from each school paint the school colors on the bridge on the road from Commerce to Jefferson. I’ll try to find out from Coach Prickett.

Directions to Commerce Tiger Stadium

Here’s a photo from the Google satellite view of Tiger field. Maybe this will be helpful for visiting fans to see where the parking is located and such. everyone has gps or gets online directions but it helps to see the actual layout before getting there.

Season Passes for Commerce Tigers

If anyone is unaware, you can purchase season passes for all Commerce Tiger Athletic events. The passes are good for all home games and include every sport. The prices are $175 for 2 passes and can be purchased by contacting Rodney Gary.

New Commerce High School

I’ll be glad when the new Commerce High School is completed. It will be a good thing for the students, staff, and community. And I won’t have to hear about East Jackson’s “nice new school” so much (it is truly a nice campus though). The new gym will be a great advantage over the archaic one that has been there since Napoleon was taking over the world. Hopefully it will improve the basketball program just by offering a better setting.
With the wrestling program on the rise I look for a more rounded athletic program in the years to come. Football will always be king here in Commerce so no need to worry about that.

Another NFL er from C Town

In addition to Gene White, Commerce had another player to make it to the NFL. His name was Felton McConnell, sometimes known as Frank.

He played guard for Commerce High in 1918.  He played guard for the University of Virginia in 1920 before transferring to Georgia Tech where he also played guard for two years from 1922-23.

Felton McConnell later played guard for one season in the National Football League for the Buffalo Bisons in 1927.

Coach Savage Quote of the day.

“T.A., what you wanna run way out there for, one of them gangsters from ______ county  will come snatch your %$# up!”