FIRST AND SHORT

Initial Reaction podcast: Badgers have a QB controversy

JR Radcliffe
jr.radcliffe@jrn.com

The Initial Reaction podcast checks in with Ben Worgull of The Badger Nation to discuss the start of the Badgers football season, plus a little Packers and a brief chat about high-school football -- including the absence of many area teams in the Division 1 state rankings.

Other links of interest this week:

Steven L. Tietz visits with members of the 1976 Menomonee Falls East state-champion football team as they celebrated their 40th anniversary before the annual clash of rivals Menomonee Falls and Hamilton (a great game, by the way).

In an uplifting moment from Michigan, a terminally-ill mother was able to see her son with Downs Syndrome score a touchdown.

Mark Stewart of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel puts together what might essentially be a eulogy to the West Allis Central-West Allis Hale rivalry, a casualty of realignment in 2017. John Rech had the game story.