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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,926 posts) Sun Oct 28, 2018, 03:36 PM Oct 2018

Dying high school football programs bring remote communities together

David Fahrenthold Retweeted:

Forty miles of winding road, a mountain pass and a time zone separate the tiny Interstate 90 towns of Mullan, Idaho, and St. Regis, Montana.

Their dying high school football programs are bringing them together. #idpreps #mtscores

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/may/08/a-game-of-numbers-one-football-team-two-states-two/ …

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Mullan, Idaho and St. Regis, Montana could barely field 8-man football teams over the years.

But their rare interstate co-op this season led to a 4-3 record . Pretty cool.

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Dying high school football programs bring remote communities together (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 OP

Wonderful for the kids. Wellstone ruled Oct 2018 #1

Allright! MontanaMama Oct 2018 #2

I drove through there in a rental car 25 years ago this week. mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 #3

The two passes between Missoula and Spokane MontanaMama Oct 2018 #4

It was a rental car. You can take those babies anywhere. mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 #5

What an adventure! MontanaMama Oct 2018 #6

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

1. Wonderful for the kids.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Oct 28, 2018, 03:43 PM

Oct 2018

Minnesota did this along the Western Border with South Dakota many a year ago.

MontanaMama

(24,015 posts)

2. Allright!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Oct 28, 2018, 09:53 PM

Oct 2018

I didn’t know any of this and I live an hour away from St Regis. Good stuff.

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,926 posts)

3. I drove through there in a rental car 25 years ago this week.

Reply to MontanaMama (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 08:25 AM

Oct 2018

It was snowing on Independence Pass when I crossed the summit.

MontanaMama

(24,015 posts)

4. The two passes between Missoula and Spokane

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 09:06 AM

Oct 2018

are not for the faint of heart in the winter. I wouldn’t do it without all wheel drive but few folks had that 25 years ago.

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,926 posts)

5. It was a rental car. You can take those babies anywhere.

Reply to MontanaMama (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 09:09 AM

Oct 2018

I had rented the car in Spokane. One of the tires was losing air, which I didn't notice until I was around Thompson Falls or so. I nursed it back to Spokane.

See: "The Beau Hunks Play the Original Laurel & Hardy Music" is specifically what I wanted to talk about.

MontanaMama

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6. What an adventure!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 29, 2018, 09:14 AM

Oct 2018

You’re mischievous, I can tell.

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