Everyone loves Power Polls – no matter how silly the Rankings are. Remember when Winnacunnet beat Exeter, and was somehow ranked beneath them? HA! Anyway, everyone knows that the ONLY Power Poll that matters belongs to WTSN’s Justin McIsaac….
 

10. PUSHING
You can’t push your teammate on Field goals and PAT’s! It’s a rule! Listen, I watched approximately 32059 hours of football this weekend, and on EVERY SINGLE FG AND PAT the defense had a guy pushing a teammate. Every. Single. One. Also, screw the Jets.

9. E-MAILS FROM THE NHIAA
Hey D-2 and D-3, the head to head tiebreaker doesn’t exist for you guys.  Just thought you should know. That’s a fun e-mail to get about 3 weeks from the playoffs right? The NHIAA should just hire Dave, Eliot, Pete and me to hash this thing out before next year. We’d argue for 4 hours and then ask Roger Brown what he thinks, and BOOM, problem solved.

8. A CERTAIN SET OF COMMERCIALS DURING BASEBALL
Every time Jim Leyland makes a pitching change, I get to see the Cialis couple holding hands next to a giant phallic looking water tower.  I’m all for finding a way to get your freak on, but when you’re making me look forward to hearing from Buck and McCarver again, that’s an issue.

7. TWEAKS TO THE PLAYOFF SYSTEM
Not to bang on the NHIAA too much, but in D3, two of THESE teams won’t make the playoffs…
  

 
 
 
 
But two of THESE teams will…..
 

And no disrespect to E/N or Brady, but that just seems messed up, right?

6. MONADNOCK STILL CAN’T CRACK THE POWER POLL
Ho-Hum, just went to Milford and dropped a 50 Burger on the Spartans. As BigCat on Barstool would say, NBD but KBD.  No respect for the Huskies. If it makes them feel better, I know for a fact that at least one voter in the power poll watches zero HS games.

5. ADULTS THAT GO INSANE FOR HALLOWEEN
I’m 35, so Halloween for me means trying to swipe a pack of fun size skittles from my kids bags after they hit the mean streets. But for a lot of people my age, they go nuts filling up their FB feed with 900 pictures of haunted houses, and skanky nurse outfits, and being excited to see “spooky” stuff, and HEY YOU’RE IN YOUR MID 30’s QUIT ACTING 15. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to finish this 2 hour GTA 5 session.

4. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RED SOX!!!
Guys, seriously, 3 World Series trips in 9 years isn’t normal. They went in 1986 when I was 8 and didn’t get back until 2004. Enjoy this crazy Boston sports run while you can, because the memories of the Pats going 1-15 and Roger Clemens pitching well for a sub .500 Red Sox team are still fresh to me.

3. MARSHWOOD IS A BEAST
I know this is a NH Sports website, but Marshwood of South Berwick Maine won their last game 60-0, and were up 35-0 MIDWAY through the first quarter of the game before that. It’s too bad there’s a rule in Maine prohibiting Thanksgiving Day games, it’d be fun to see them take on Portsmouth or Spaulding or STA, or someone.

2. PORTSMOUTH COMING OFF THE DECK
Down 15-0 to mighty Plymouth at the half,and it looked like a mismatch. But the Clippers started to move the ball towards the end of the 2nd Q, and came out with an 80 yard scoring drive to start the 3rd. Donovan Phanor was money in the bank, going 11/12 with 4 TD’s in the 2nd half, the last of which was a 51 yard connection with Jake Becker after a 4th and 1 stop on D. It was a thrilling win.

1. THE FIGHTING MCISAACS
Also not sexy enough to get into the power poll, despite a 17-7 win over Exeter, in which Spaulding out hit, out hustled, and out executed the Blue Hawks in all phases of the game. Trey Scott deservedly gets most of the ink that can be spared by the NH media to talk about Spaulding, but he had a lot of help in this one from kids like Tyler Snow, Casey & Colton Craig, and an underrated O-line that was giving up a lot of size to EHS. Spaulding is now in the driver’s seat to host a re-match with Exeter in the Sub-Division playoff game.

ALSO RECIVEING VOTES:  Clock Management, Tim McCarver is fascinated by a cardboard box, The old white guy media needs to ease up on Puig, Gronk is back, Dan Deirdorf makes me want to jump out a window, Candy Corn
Follow Justin on twitter: @Justin_McIsaac