Harrisburg

We need you to go in at quarterback.

I was just ready, just trying to prepare for that week especially because we played Harrisburg that week too.

Well, and I'm going to say this, Carter.

A lot of people think that's your guys' best game of the year.

Mount Carmel definitely had, I'd say, the best atmosphere.

Just, like, the setup and everything was really cool.

But I'd say my favorite field, just, like, good facilities-wise, Harrisburg.

It's very nice.

In the humid, red-blown lowlands of southern Illinois known as the Total Bottoms, A terrifying creature is said to lurk.

Long before its famous cousin, the Big Muddy Monster, terrorized Murfreesboro, the Total Bottoms Monster established itself as a local legend near the town of Harrisburg.

The creature is described as a massive bipedal hominid,

but with one standout feature.

The descriptions are nearly identical.

a tall, pale-furred, foul-smelling hominid that screamed and left large tracks.

It's likely that the 1963 Harrisburg sightings were an earlier, less publicized chapter of the same regional phenomenon.

Skeptics point to the most plausible explanation as always, a large albino or unusually colored black bear.

Yeah, I love it.

And, uh, you know, the Herrin Tigers got their first win against the Harrisburg Bulldogs since-

Huge.

Big upset

Then the number seven, Nashville Hornets, at home against Chester, aforementioned.

Number six, Frankfort, aforementioned.

The Benton Rangers on the road at Taylor Field against the Harrisburg Bulldogs, who will be hungry to make a bounce back.

[growls] ♪ Who let the dogs out? ♪

Ms. Rowan's Cougars at Mansfield Township in Columbus, New Jersey.

Miss Murky and her Lions at Rockwern Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mrs. Wise's Bulldogs at Eastside Intermediate in Harrisburg, Illinois.

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In the humid, flood-plained lowlands of southern Illinois, known as the Total Bottoms, a terrifying creature is said to lurk.

Long before its famous cousin, the Big Muddy Monster, terrorized Murphysboro, the Total Bottoms Monster established itself as a local legend near the town of Harrisburg.

The creature is described as a massive bipedal hominid, but with one standout feature.

Its fur is not brown or black, but a ghostly white or gingy gray.

The descriptions are nearly identical.

A tall, pale-furred, foul-smelling hominid that screamed and left large tracks.

It's likely that the 1963 Harrisburg sightings were an earlier, less publicized chapter of the same regional phenomenon.

Skeptics point to the most plausible explanation as always, a large albino or unusually colored black bear.

primarily in southeastern Illinois.

We're talking Harrisburg, Shawneetown, maybe up towards Carmine, some of those areas.

But there is a very sharp cutoff line to the west.

You know, you may go from having a tenth to a quarter of an inch, which is not that much rain, to having absolutely nothing once you get west of the interstate across.

Mrs. Booth's Baby Chickens at John Muir in Merced, California.

Mrs. Bryant's Bulldogs at Eastside Intermediate in Harrisburg, Illinois.

Mrs. Wiggins Indians at Cherokee in Alexandria, Louisiana.

And Ms. Hall's Wildcats at Crimson View in St. George, Utah.

Oh, yeah.

October the 3rd, we're gonna be in Harrisburg, Illinois, and, uh, that is gonna be the Shawnee Sasquatch Festival.

And, uh, David's done that I don't know how many years.

Uh, I think three, four.

Three or four.

He, he...

I, I've been a part of it for two years, and so yeah, it's been pretty cool 'cause, uh, the whole town of Harrisburg, Illinois, they, uh, are really good about making commercials and putting it on Facebook, and it's so cute some of the stuff they do.

Of course, they'll have all...