COFFEETOWN HS SPORTS

Throwback Thursdays give us the opportunity to look back on some classic Coffeetown Football games.

This story originally appeared in the Saturday, October 19th edition of the Copperhead Courier.

Relive the impressive showing from Donnie and Ronnie Chuggs in a loss to Dirtville:

Donnie and Ronnie Chuggs run Wild in Loss to Dirtville

Coffeetown’s slide in the loss column continues with a 42-12 humiliation against Dirtville.

Don’t blame the Chuggs Brothers, though.

Running back Donnie and split end Ronnie gave the Dirtville Devils all they could handle on Friday night at the Snake Pit, with 236 yards of total offense and the Copperheads’ only two touchdowns.

Coffeetown Memorial Stadium hasn’t seen a tandem of brothers light up the opposition like this since the 1967 playoff game between Coffeetown and Princeberry.

Some of you may remember that as the ‘Dynamite Daniels’ game, when brothers Dan and Daniel Daniels combined for a whopping 250 yards of total offense.

That performance is impressive in its own right, of course.

For those who weren’t in the bleacher (Coffeetown Memorial only had one row of pine seating for fans at the time), the most outrageous part about that stat line is that Daniel Daniels wasn’t even a skill player.

He played center.

Coffeetown quarterback Wit Larinsky fumbled the snap on the Copperheads’ one-yard line.

Daniel then scooped it up and rumbled 99 yards for the most unlikely of all Copperheads touchdowns.

Dan picked up the rest of those 151 yards as the starting fullback in a Copperheads playoff victory.

This year’s Copperheads team will be lucky to sniff the playoffs, however

Coffeetown has to stare down an 0-4 record before the bye week. They are effectively buried in the region standings just a sneeze and a blink into this season.

It won’t be Donnie and Ronnie Chuggs’s fault if the Copperheads miss the postseason, though.

The ‘Sizzlin’ Siblin’s’ as Coffeetown radio voice Max ‘The Axe’ Bell calls them accounted for all but one of the Copperheads’ touchdowns this season.

Coffeetown head coach Cliff Swansea made the unenviable decision to fire his defensive coordinator after the game – who also happens to be his father, Sean.

“No coach wants to have to fire anyone during the season, let alone your own flesh and blood,” Swansea told me.

“At the end of the day though, you have to do what’s best for these boys and for the community. Dad will land on his feet. He has a non-compete within the region. Thanksgiving is probably canceled though.”

If the Swansea family carving knife won’t be working next month, Coffeetown fans know a turkey who will be

“Just hand the ball off to Donnie Chuggs and let that turkey work,” Max Bell told me in the parking lot.

Indeed, Max.

He’s been saying it all season. But is it sustainable?

Donnie and Ronnie may be the Copperheads’ only hope to salvage this season.

Flesh and blood already failed Coffeetown once.

It can’t happen again if the Copperheads want a chance for their first postseason victory in 35 years.