MUCK CITY.....chasing Rabbits.....chasing the RIVALS......PAHOKEE and Belle Glades CENTRAL......chasing College Football.....Chasing the NFL

West Palm Beach is a beautiful City on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. The STATE of Florida is known for it's Football and its is Big Time everywhere in the STATE. High Schools like St. Thomas AQUINAS, Tampa PLANT, Miami NORTHWESTERN, Bradenton SOUTHEAST, Orlando DR. PHILLIPS, Tallahassee LINCOLN, Palm BAY, Fort MYERS, Pensacola, Miramar, Jacksonville BOLLES, COCOA Beach, MIAMI COLUMBUS..and on and on.

There is 2 High Schools that are known for their talent, their training techniques, their location, and their Annual Football game........ENTER PAHOKEE HS and Belle Glades CENTRAL smack dab in the heart of the EVERGLADES and 50 or so miles west of WEST PALM BEACH Florida.

All the Schools I have mentioned have talent across the board but the talent here is really really HOMEGROWN....literally and figuratively.

Then you ask what is MUCK. MUCK is SOIL made up primarily of HUMUS from drained SWAMPLAND. It is a BLACK SOIL that is used to grow specialty crops such as onions, celery, carrots, potatoes ( source Wikipedia Muck )and of course........TALENTED FOOTBALL PLAYERS.

The MUCK is such a part of the CULTURES in these areas.......every year PAHOKEE and Belle Glades CENTRAL get together for it's annual MUCK BOWL.....and Big-Time College Coaches turn up in groves for this one. It's always around 10,000 folks and a standing room only crowd to catch this game.

And you want to know why the KIDS at the SKILLED position and even some Lineman and Linebackers are so fast. In the SUMMER these young men get into the Sugarcane Fields when they burn them before harvest and chase Rabbits just as the SNAKES in this habitat. It's get the kids hand/eye coordination as well as their QUICKNESS from step to step. And if you have ever run in muck it's like quick sand meets a mud hole....legs and upper body always moving in sync to get anywhere.

The players that have played in the Annual MUCK BOWL is a LIST of NCAA Division 1 All-Americans and NFL All-Pros..........check this list of MUCK BOWL STARS:

BELLE GLADES Central RAIDERS

Santonio HOLMES WR OHIO STATE Steelers/Jets
Fred TAYLOR RB FLORIDA Jags/Pats
James JACKSON RB MIAMI FL Browns/Packers/Cards
Riedel ANTHONY WR FLORIDA Bucs/Redskins
Louis OLIVER SS FLORIDA Dolphins/Bengals
Jesse HESTER WR FLORIDA STATE Rams/Colts/Falcons/Raiders
Deonte THOMPSON WR current GATOR

PAHOKEE Blue DEVILS

Anquan BOLDIN QB/WR FLORIDA STATE QB/WR......CARDS/RAVENS
Rickey JACKSON OLB PITTSBURGH OLB Saints/49ERS....the only Hall Of Fame 2010 CANTON
Alphonso SMITH CB WAKE FOREST CB Broncos/LIONS
Janoris JENKINS CB FLORIDA/North ALABAMA....watch his name in 2012 NFL Draft

Just think at the SUPER BOWL between the CARDINALS and STEELERS a few year back BOLDIN and HOLMES had more at stake than just winning the LOMBARDI.....it was the MUCK BOWL inside of the SUPER BOWL.

The Glades Central RAIDERS have won 6 state titles and that is right up there with LAKELAND Florida HS and their alum of Ray LEWIS, the POUNCEY Twins, current GATOR RB Chris RAINEY and many more.

The Pahokee BLUE DEVILS have won 2 Championships and still rank among the ELITE in the STATE of Florida.

Now you will know when you see a NFL Player wearing a 59/50 or a TEE that says MUCK CITY on it........what they are talking about......Welcome to EVERGLADES FOOTBALL.

NOTE: BOLDIN was the best QB in FLORIDA 2 years in a row at PAHOKEE and went to the 'NOLES to play QB and his freshman year Tore an ACL and when he came back QB Chris WEINKE was throwing the PIGSKIN so to get on the field at TALENTED Florida STATE....BOLDIN, talented in his own right, moved to WR....and the rest is history.

HOLMES was a standout WR and Kick return Specialist at the OHIO STATE University. The man they call "TONE".......and the BLUEDUDE calls MR. YAC (Yards After Catch) was the MVP of the SUPER Bowl 43 between the Cards and STEELERS. Off the Filed issues led to TONE being traded to the JETS a year ago......but he knows and STEELER Nation knows.....he will always be a STEELER.

TONE was Part of the 2002 National CHAMPIONSHIP Team at OSU when they beat the 'CANES of Coral Gables.

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