Letters to the Editor
Raiders deserve more coverage
To the editor:
Thumbs up:
To the Southest Raiders and Northwest Bruins football teams who each traveled to away games last Friday and pulled off upsets with major playoff implications. Congratulations to both of our Whitfield County teams!
Thumbs down:
To Dalton’s local TV and newspaper media for failing to provide video highlights for WDNN’s Football Friday or send a newspaper photographer to either game. The Daily Citizen did at least make arrangements with the Marietta newspaper for a photo from the Northwest game, but no such arrangements were made for the Southeast game. Not even when two other local photographers from Jay Dyer Photography and CLC Photography were there snapping plenty of great shots. It wouldn’t have been the first time the DCN had printed their photos when they couldn’t spare a photographer, not to mention the fact that there was only one other local team, Murray Co., playing Friday night. As they say on ESPN, “Aw, c’mon man!”
An “Aw, c’mon man!” also goes out to the WDNN sports crew that couldn’t even make the 35-mile trip to Lafayette, yet covered Ringgold vs. LFO and Ridgeland vs. Heritage, in addition to the Dalton vs. Rome game, all of whom played on Thursday for fear of bad weather on Friday. Many times Football Friday has covered games from Canton to Calhoun to Ridgeland on a single Friday night, so I can’t understand the lack of coverage last Friday.
Our local newspaper and television station have got to do a better job of supporting the hometown teams ... all of them.
There are two big games this Friday, one at Northwest and one at Southeast — both with state playoff implications. I’ll be at an overflowing Raider Stadium Friday night for what will be one of the biggest and most meaningful games played by the Southeast Raiders in many years, with a chance to go to the region playoffs at stake.
Good luck to the Raiders and all area teams Friday!
Gary Keeble Jr.
vice president, Southeast QB Club
(Editor: There was not a Raider game photo on Saturday, Oct. 24. There were Raider game photos on Oct. 17 (Ridgeland), and Oct. 3 (at Ringgold). There was no game for Oct. 10. In September, our photographer shot the Raiders on Sept. 26 (Haralson County), Sept. 19 (Heritage), Sept. 12 (Sonoraville on the road), Sept. 5 (Model). In two months (so far) we had seven opportunities to get photos of Raider games. We shot six of those games, all four home games and two road games. With one staff photograper available on Friday night, I am proud of that effort. Good luck against LFO.)
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