It will never end...

It looks like the streak will never end...

It is nice to know that the country's longest active winning streak is nestled in the little town of Smith Center and it doesn't look like it will end anytime soon. The Redmen notched 70 last Friday over Norton.

For a while there, people were grumbling that Norton might be the one's to do. They jumped out and scored right off the bat and then smashed Colt Rogers deep on their own four yard line on the ensuing kickoff. Then the offense couldn't get anything moving in the first quarter. Bluejays 7, Redmen 0.

But then they kicked it into over drive and they won, and all was right in Smith County.

The Redmen currently hold the nation's longest ACTIVE winning streak at 70 games, and that ranks fourth all time for prep 11-man football.

SC is right behind South Panola High School from Batesville, Mississippi who had their streak snapped in 2003 at 89. Independence High School in Charlotte, North Carolina had their's broken at 109. But the longest in the history of ever comes from California at De La Salle High School, home to the Bronco's D.J. Williams, who won 151 games in a row!!!! (exclamations for emphasis) They didn't lose a game from 1992 to 2003. Simply wow.

It will take a long time for the Redmen to reach that level, and honestly they won't, but it will be fun to watch them try.

And they know it will end. Coach Barta, who is 8 games shy of 300 wins, admits it will end and he will be OK with it when it does. And the town knows it will end, and they admit that if it happened to Norton or Phillipsburg, two of their longest and arch-est of rivals, that would make it better. For a town to give up the nations longest winning streak to a team that isn't very good won't sit very well with them.

So here's to going for 71 against Phillipsburg! We'll be watching...