The Tale Of Two Football Cities: Port Neches-Groves And Nederland

[SmashMouth]

On 1/8/2023 at 12:01 PM, Aggie521 said:

I also am a “Grovite” who basically took the same path as you - played on the Browns and all. It’s absolutely true that you grow up as a Groves kid with a chip on your shoulder wanting to beat the “rich” kids of PN at everything! My senior year our starters were pretty evenly split between the two cities, but most of the hard-nosed kids are always from Groves. 
 

For reference, I married a PN girl and now live in PN - so there’s that. 😆

I'm quite sure both you guys are MUCH older than me Lol, but when I went to Groves Middle School in the late 70's (lived on Verde not far from the school), we all pretty much couldn't stand the Port Neches bunch...

[SmashMouth]

17 hours ago, pine curtain said:

This thread reminds me of the Colmesneil people arguing about if the S is silent or pronounced.

Colm-uh-kneel

[TxHoops]

On 1/10/2023 at 8:20 PM, pine curtain said:

This thread reminds me of the Colmesneil people arguing about if the S is silent or pronounced.

There’s no argument.  The S is silent.  And I only call it The Groves.  

[The Ingredient]

Yall are almost all PA blood, or else yall'd be West-Bridge City by now......so lets just call it that. Your maroon/purple and gold blood does seem to slowly be bred out of you the further North you go in the land of purple cool-aid. 

 

[PN-G bamatex]

6 hours ago, TxHoops said:

There’s no argument.  The S is silent.  And I only call it The Groves.  

Half the Houston-area schools we play think the 's' is silent in Groves, too. 😑

[purpleeagle]

16 hours ago, PN-G bamatex said:

Half the Houston-area schools we play think the 's' is silent in Groves, too. 😑

I use the s and I had Emmy Lou Scott for English. If we can’t do it it can’t be done, senior class of 61.

[Hagar]

Interesting.  The PNG vs Nederland thread turned into a Port Neches vs The Groves thread.  I did find it interesting though.  Never knew there was trouble in Indian land, but always wondered how many players The Groves contributed.  Despite this Hatfield/McCoy feud it seems to dissolve at the High School level.  

[purpleeagle]

53 minutes ago, Hagar said:

Interesting.  The PNG vs Nederland thread turned into a Port Neches vs The Groves thread.  I did find it interesting though.  Never knew there was trouble in Indian land, but always wondered how many players The Groves contributed.  Despite this Hatfield/McCoy feud it seems to dissolve at the High School level.  

There is no problem. Just your usual negative few posters.

[Austin1985]

15 hours ago, purpleeagle said:

There is no problem. Just your usual negative few posters.

This all is an excersize in myopia.  They form like voltron when you question all that pride tradition etc stuff

[purpleeagle]

2 hours ago, Austin1985 said:

This all is an excersize in myopia.  They form like voltron when you question all that pride tradition etc stuff

I have 20-20 vision 

[Bigdog]

On 1/12/2023 at 9:43 AM, TxHoops said:

There’s no argument.  The S is silent.  And I only call it The Groves.  

Yeah, I checked into that, its something that started recently.

[Mr. Buddy Garrity]

On 1/12/2023 at 12:48 PM, The Ingredient said:

Yall are almost all PA blood, or else yall'd be West-Bridge City by now......so lets just call it that. Your maroon/purple and gold blood does seem to slowly be bred out of you the further North you go in the land of purple cool-aid. 

 

😁

[Reagan]

I'm a little disappointed in that all we can come up with so far is that in the past 47 years Groves is the answer for why there is a difference in the two football cities!   Would like to hear other opinions!

[Rez Ipsa]

47 minutes ago, Reagan said:

I'm a little disappointed in that all we can come up with so far is that in the past 47 years Groves is the answer for why there is a difference in the two football cities!   Would like to hear other opinions!

I agree. Groves and Port Neches don’t exactly have a genetic wall erected between them. 

[PN-G bamatex]

On 1/24/2023 at 1:00 PM, Rez Ipsa said:

I agree. Groves and Port Neches don’t exactly have a genetic wall erected between them. 

If anything, it's more like a genetic exchange program.

[Bigdog]

1 hour ago, PN-G bamatex said:

If anything, it's more like a genetic exchange program.

Hey, now !!  Lets keep it PG around here!  😁

[GoPro]

On 1/7/2023 at 9:49 AM, LCMAlumtiger32 said:

Nederland might be correcting that problem. 

Do tell ? 🤔

[TxHoops]

On 1/26/2023 at 1:05 PM, PN-G bamatex said:

If anything, it's more like a genetic exchange program.

Can’t believe I missed this.  😂 HOF post 🤣