The welcome and sometimes not-so-welcome Matt

Posted by Paul Anderson | Monday, November 30, 2009 @ 3:31 AM

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This holiday weekend was a little like fumbling the ball and having it bounce back up in your hands.

Well, not really.

My alma mater, Marist High School, finally made it back to the state championships for the first time since 1986 and, unlike back then, I was actually able to watch the game. (I love the Internets). But just like 23 years ago they got stomped by some suburban public school. Some things never change.

But that was Saturday. Then came Sunday and I got to watch my beloved Vikings basically end the season for my hometown Bears.

So the sports universe balances itself out.

For instance, on Saturday I watched Maine South High School’s Matt Perez run wild all over Marist. It was like watching Clark Kent in “Smallville” holding back his super powers. I mean, 316 yards and 5 touchdowns? I told Mona no one will ever eclipse that record. Except maybe in the year 2020 when they let cyborgs play. Maybe Matt Perez IS a cyborg, I surmised.

Then on Sunday I got the benefit of having the proverbial Matt Perez play for MY team. Brett Favre. Once he was the Matt Perez who tortured me as a Green Bay Packer. Now he’s in a purple jersey just handing it to Duh Bears. And I love it.

I hope my Marist RedHawks (I still have trouble getting used to that — when I went there they were the very un PC Redskins) can bounce back next year, but I won’t hold my breath. They are the Chicago Cubs of high school football after all. They rarely veer that close to sports nirvana. The Vikes have the same reputation, although with much more regular season and playoff success, but like the Cubs they always find a way to choke it away at the last moment. If they don’t this year it’ll be because we have Matt Perez on our side for once.

Go Vikings. Next week, Mona and I will be in Arizona and we’ll have a lot more video for you. She’s getting scary good with the iMovie skills — we’ll try to add more surprises next week.

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