them in the playoffs. They were shellacked at home by Green Bay 35-13 and then beat the Packers in the NFC Championship game. They lost to New England 38-35 the last regular game of the season, so it was inevitable they would win the rematch where the loser goes home. The lead changed hands five times, with the last occurring on the Manning to Burress winning touchdown pass with 35 seconds left in the Super Bowl.

Manning was named the Most Valuable Player and presented the keys to a new Cadillac Escalade Hybrid, which is due to hit the marketplace this fall. “We believed in ourselves all season long,” Manning said when interviewed after the game, “even after getting beat by them in the final regular game of theseconds left in Super Bowl XLII Sunday night. “I guess when I opened my mouth, I put a little pressure on them (my teammates),” Burress admitted after the game. Former Port Arthur Thomas Jefferson standout football player Kevin Everett attended Sunday’s Super Bowl game and sat alongside NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Everett, the Buffalo Bills special teams player who earlier suffered a serious spinal cord injury that temporarily paralyzed him, is now walking and continues his rehabilitation in Houston. With Jasper and Kirbyville leaving District 21-3A this fall, it looks to this Korner like the West Orange-Stark Mustangs have a real good chance of going another season without ever losing a district football game since dropping down to Class 3A five years ago. Jasper moves to District 18-3A