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Found This on Supreme Court Decisions site: Dated: 6/20/2000 Supreme Court ruled today that prayers led by students at high school football games are no exception: as officially sanctioned acts at events that students feel great social pressure to attend, they are unconstitutional. The 6-to-3 majority opinion by Justice John Paul Stevens said that even when attendance was voluntary and when the decision to pray was made by students, ''the delivery of a pregame prayer has the improper effect of coercing those present to participate in an act of religious worship.'' The case came from a small school district in South Texas,(Santa Fe ISD) typical of communities across the South where the practice of prayer at graduations, assemblies and athletic contests has persisted as officials have tried to navigate the obstacle course created by Supreme Court and lower court decisions. In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, had ruled that students could offer prayers at graduations -- where members of the clergy cannot, under a 1992 Supreme Court decision -- but not in the ''far less solemn and extraordinary'' setting of a football game. I have not seen anything that overturned this decision, but IT IS WRONG!!!

I agree freedom of speech. I thought the federal law stated that no one could lead the prayer before the game! I have been wrong before! Everyone needs to start doing this again!!! Amen!

Who is the moral compass? Majority rules? We know better than that, living in America with the laws that are in place. Tell the Police Officer, or the Judge that next time that "Some rules are meant to be broken," see if that flies the next time you break the law. I am here now praying & will be at the game praying for all the boys, fans & those horrible rule breaking coaches, (who shall remain nameless) that they are all safely transported to & from the game. That there are no injuries. That God Bless both Barbers Hill High School & Port Neches-Groves High School.

I said nothing about shame, or intent. Love prayer like the next Christian. But, as I have been told on this board lately, the fact that a rule is broken is all that matters, NOT THE INTENT! LOL

In No Way do I expect an easy game. The team that executes it's game plan the best, with the fewest turnovers wins. PNG will bring it! Eagles do the same. I think this will be a great game!!! In my seat I'll pray no kids on either side get hurt! Oh, sorry, I forgot it is a violation of federal law to pray out loud at football games. I will pray quietly from here, & there. LOL

Please we would very much like you to focus on only one player. You can please ignore all other players on the team. no one of course ever blocks for Shug's runs. Noone catches his passes. I don't even know how we have scored this year? Hee Hee Hee Hee!

Not going to see too much of Shug either, he moves too fast.

Eagles are Excited, Fly High & Away, but Forget They Have a Game to Play. Indians Win!!!

Well lets see. First of all it would be illegal for their coaches to have any device which can record photos, or videos in the press box. Even if it was not being used to record, or photograph the game. So if their coach took a picture of PNG coaches in the press box, & our coaches had an IPad, I'm guessing a double forfeit, right?

Now that's funny!

That food is not good!

Choosing the depth & flavor of your indigestion. Got to love America!

Iguana Joe's at 146. Great Mexican Food.

How do you VERIFY it's just not done?

I believe there is a simple way to avoid all this technology problem, in the future. Have the police strip search every coach, at every stadium, as they enter the press box. If any coach, entering the door of the press box, is found to have any type of technology that can photograph, or tape the game, it is an automatic forfeit. Everyone goes home early. Problem solved. Simple huh?

Indeed the playoffs are the MOST important.

It was the PNG people who are only concerned with beating Nederland, and no one else, that put For Sale signs in his yard. I have stated before that I would take a loss every year to Nederland if it means we can keep going to the playoffs. The playoffs are where PNG Football lives!!! Love my Indians!!!

Hey man, don't pick on Crosby. They have enough going on with their financial problems to be drawn into this discussion.

As I said on the other site, do not blame our players, or our fans for this violation of the rules. I believe in our boys. The coach using the Ipad needs to publicly apologize to the PNG Indian students and fans. Ignorance of the rules is not a defense. We need make no excuses, we need to own up & play football. And I guarantee our PNG boys can play football!

I believe in our boys. The coach using the Ipad needs to publicly apologize to the PNG Indian students and fans. Ignorance of the rules is not a defense. We need make no excuses, we need to own up & play football.

That's right. Let's see, Hmmm... now that PNG can't cheat, obviously we have been cheating all year, Barbers Hill should blow us out by 50 points. Because the Indians obviously can't win with the poor quality offensive and defensive players we have without the strange psychic connection from our coaches in the box who have had an ipad in their possession. Barbers Hill should just start their back-ups. I mean after all nothing to worry about from our Indians anymore. Just relax Eagles & enjoy your dominating win over PNG. In Your Dreams!

Amen. We did not cheat, we broke the rules & are suffering accordingly. Does not affect our position. Playoffs are still in sight for this PNG team.

PNG will not look past BH. We need the work against a solid offense and defense to prepare for Nederland. We will be ready to play Friday. The defense is the key for us. The defense plays well, we got this. Defense plays poorly, we can easily give up major points. I think this will be a great game. I pray noone else gets hurt, so everyone can go into the last district game as strong as possible. God watch over all the players on both teams!

May have no choice but to pressure the quarterback. If we lay back cover the receivers, like we did at Dayton, Santa Fe will chew the clock up with short passes & score. Have to get the defense in quickly to the backfield & pressure the receivers on coverage. We may get beat a few times deep, but we can punish the QB enough to make him a little cautious when he goes back to pass. I expect a very close, hard fought game!

I believe you are correct. In fact our defense doesn't stop other teams from scoring, any more than our fight song does. However, I am sure that if a band member played his instrument poorly, the band director would be give another musician a chance to play. Maybe our defensive coordinator could try something like that. Hint...Hint!