Week 2 Game Live On The Internet

The game of the week for the Thumb Tailgater Sports Network is Bad Axe @ Vassar.

Can the Hatchets make it two straight for the first time since 2007 and and start off 2-0, since 2001 where they won six straight and went 7-3 for that year? Have the planets in the universe aligned? Mr. Spock of Vulcan land doesn't think so, but the Hatchets just might have enough to chop away the naysayers...

TUNE IN LIVE ON THE INTERNET! Pre-Game Show starts at 6pm!

Debut Game Rocky Start....But Ended Good

We had a shaky debut for the first Thumb Area live Internet broadcast of high school football ; Deckerville vs Sterling Heights Parkway Christian. In the beginning of the broadcast things started sounding like it was in slow motion drag, and choppy...but it improved after about 25 minutes. So all in all it turned okay in the end. The next game should be more clearer.
On Sunday, I will post what the next game will be. Most teams are playing on Thursday, due to the Labor Day Weekend. Thanks to all who tuned in when it was live and I apologize for the mishaps. It is a work in progress but I promise it will improve!
For all the Deckerville & Parkway Christian fans, I will edit the archived game and have all polished up for you to download later.

Here is the Pre-Game Interview with Head Coach Bill Brown. This one is clean and not all slow and skippy and a gargled mess that it was in the beginning of the internet broadcast.

Coach Bill Brown Interview 8-28-09

The game is now archived at EZ Stream.com

Week 1 Football Final Scores

Ubly 38, USA 12
Deckerville 41, Sterling Heights Parkway Christian 14

Sandusky 33, Cass City 7

Brown City 63, Peck 0 !

Marlette 57, Kingston 19

Bad Axe 28, Harbor Beach 6

Dryden 32, Mayville 31

Reese 12, Houghton Lake 6

Bay City All Saints 34, Saginaw Valley Lutheran 7

Carrollton 27, EPBP Lakers 26

Caro 26, Vassar 12
Dearborn Divine Child 24, Croswell-Lexington 0

Armada 24, Memphis 0
Kinde-North Huron 45, Marine City Cardinal Mooney 20

8 Man Football NCTL:
Engadine 50, Carsonville-Port Sanilac 14 (Saturday)

Au Gres Sims 42, Akron-Fairgrove 6
Washentaw-Multi Cultural 44, Owen-Gage 30 (Thursday)

Kinde-North Huron vs Marine City Cardinal Mooney Audio

So we did another system test to work the "kinks" and it worked out good. I want to thank the fine people and staff at Kinde-North Huron High School for their assistance.
It was a great game for North Huron as they defeated Cardinal Mooney 45 - 20, for the official start of the high school football season in the Thumb area.
I also want to thank Chris Ogryski of the Huron County Press and Paul Adams of the Huron Daily Tribune for also helping me out. The return of the Thumb Tailgaters was fun on Thursday night.
This is my first time doing play by play so it is going to be a work in progress for me. So please bear with me...
The sound quality is a bit off as I had to save it to a smaller scale in order to post them here. During a live game, I think you will be pleased and also to remind you again that all the games on Thumb Tailgater Sports will be archived for you later at our streaming host site.
On that note here is the audio from the North Huron game. Enjoy!

North Huron vs Cardinal Mooney Pre-Game Show 
North Huron vs Cardinal Mooney 1st Quarter Part 1
North Huron vs Cardinal Mooney 1st Quarter Part 2
North Huron vs Cardinal Mooney 2nd Quarter Part 1

North Huron vs Cardinal Mooney 2nd Quarter Part 2 
North Huron vs Cardinal Mooney 2nd Quarter Part 3 
Halftime Talk

North Huron vs Cardinal Mooney 3rd Quarter Part 1 
North Huron vs Cardinal Mooney 4th Quarter 
Post Game 

The Clock Has Started!

The clock is ticking to the start of the high school football season and has started for the official debut of Thumb Tailgater Sports, live internet streaming of high school football for the Greater Thumb Conference  & NCTL.  

We will be doing a broadcast test run at the North Huron vs Marine City Cardinal Mooney on Thursday night, 7pm.  The game will be posted later so you will have an idea on what the sound quality will be like. During earlier tests, it came out pretty darn good.

Just to also let you fans know...the game will stream with a live broadcast. But the real awesome thing is that if you can't listen to it live, the games will be archived for you to retrieve later any time you want! 
This is powered by EZ Stream.

Even though there are posted links in a few spots on the blog, I'll make easier for you to find...here is this Friday night's game hosting site... just click on the event and you should be taken to the link. 
(Windows Media Player required to listen)

Deckerville vs Sterling Heights Parkway Christian
 

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Game Time & Date

I know there has not been much on this blog yet. But the real purpose is to set up for the live game streaming on the Internet. So far everything has been testing good and is working out great! In fact, there will be another test on Thursday night. I will be having a test run of the Kinde-North Huron vs Marine City Cardinal Mooney game. 

There is a time start for the Friday night Thumb Tailgater Game. 
Deckerville vs Sterling Heights Parkway Christian starts with the Pre -Game Show at 6:00 pm, followed by the game at 7pm.

In order for you to listen to the game live, or later when it is archived, you must use Windows Media Player.

Contact:  thumbtailgater@gmail.com

Thumb Tailgater Debuts!!

Thumb Tailgater is born and debuts!! Focused on the high school football season of thumb area schools in the Greater Thumb Conference, North Central Thumb League, and a little bit of the Blue Water Conference.

The specialty & service here on this blog is that Thumb Tailgater will be bringing you a game of the week on the Internet with live streaming audio play by play!

Video will be coming soon in the future!!

There will also be some specials that will have either audio, video or photo segments devoted the love of other sports, special events, or human interest stories. It is a big undertaking, but I am running with it!

More details will be coming on the time & dates with links for fans on where to tune in on the Internet. Another added bonus is that all games will be archived and will be free for those high school sports fans to download and keep!!

The long awaited return of the "Pre -Game Thumb Tailgate Sports Show" that use to be featured on WLEW Cruise 102.1 FM out of Bad Axe, MI; will also have a weekly podcast featuring local thumb area media personnel!

The game of the week starts Friday, August 28th, 2009! Eagles vs Eagles!

Deckerville Eagles vs Sterling Heights Parkway Christian Eagles.

Last years meeting between these two teams was a barn burner! Deckerville came out on top winning big on the road 54-47. This year SHPC comes to Deckerville's homefield looking for some revenge in this big rematch!

Businesses who would like to advertise and be part of the broadcast can email us...

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