As we all know, Power Polls are silly- some of the voters don’t even watch any games! But people love lists, which is why Buzzfeed is a thing, so here’s Justin McIsaac’s TOP TEN!
 

10. CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME...  (Part 1)

Why it makes sense that Somersworth has to go TO Campbell for a playoff game?  Both teams won 6 games. Both teams lost to Bow.  Somersworth beat Campbell 20-13. The points/rating system is pretty silly, eh?

9. CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME… (Part 2)

Why it makes sense that Trinity is staying home this week, when they handed Milford their lunch 38-13 back on 10/11? Both teams finished 5-3. Both teams lost to Windham. But Steve Burns’ team is staying home Saturday. The points/rating system is pretty silly, eh?

8. THE SOUTHWEST AIRLINES WEDDING GIRL

I’m a happily married man, but Mrs. McIsaac knows the apple of my eye is our fair haired maiden dancing the night away during every commercial break in every NFL game. The brides at these weddings must HATE her. You’re NEVER supposed to outshine the bride.
That’s like first day wedding stuff.  BTW, Southwest Girl Dancing Power Poll:
1. Bust  A Move
2. Push It
3. Slow Dance (For the kid’s face to her left)
4. Good Vibrations

7. THE CHAMP IS HERE

Concord had to sweat it out Saturday after losing to Exeter on Friday night (you knew there was NO WAY Bill Ball was taking his foot off the gas, even with a playoff spot secure), so the Crimson Tide needed a Goffstown win over Memorial to get into the tournament. That’s what they got, and once you get in, anything can happen.

6. COULD THE JETS SCORE ON BOW?

I say no. Another shutout for the Falcons, this time over a very good Somersworth team on Saturday to finish undefeated for the regular season. The Falcons are riding a 15 game winning streak into the playoffs, and you’d be hard pressed to find someone to pick against them to take home the D3 title (I’m still going with Somersworth, because I am an unabashed Seacoast homer).

5. BRING ME THE HEAD OF TJ WARD

I think we all kind of forgave TJ Ward last year when, as a Cleveland Brown, he went low on Gronk and tore everyone’s favorite TE’s ACL last year. The only real way to take Gronk down is to go low, unless you want to get stiff armed into oblivion.   But when Ward dove right at Gronk’s knee last night, I SAW BLOOD. As I said on Twitter during the game, I’d pay $1,000 to see Ward and Bernard Pollard consumed by lion.

4. BRENDAN JOHNSON THREW FOR 8 TD’S AND I DON’T EVEN HAVE A CLEVER HEADLINE FOR THAT

In a 60-40 win (SIXTY TO FORTY!!!!) over Winnisquam, Bishop Brady’s Brendan Johnson casually chucked 8 TD’s to state the state record at 30 for the season. 8 TD’s passing is a season for a lot of HS QB’s (In the early 90’s, it was a season for some Patriots QB’s). Brady & Johnson will have their hands full with Bow this weekend, and with finding a permit to get his arm into school, at is appears to be a fire hazard

3. GO GET YOUR SHINE BOX, PEYTON

There are fewer things in this world than watching Peyton Manning sulk after a loss. I love it more than pay day. More than hearing my children laugh. More than the Southwest Air Wedding girl. Once again Brady lays the smack down on Manning, and there’s a bit of a spring in my step…. Until the next stupid State Farm or Papa John’s ad.

2. STA’S DEFENSE WAS BANANAS AGAINST TRINITY

… And the offense wasn’t bad either. Trinity had no room to run out of their double wing offense most of Saturday afternoon, with 2 or 3 Saints busting through the line enough times to make Steve Burns’ hair fall out.  STA also scored on 1 play drives 3 times, including a 93 yard screen pass from Stephen Hedberg to Liam Middleton. The Saints have a tough game with surging MV on Saturday in the playoffs, but they appear to be firing on all cylinders.

1. I’VE REVIEWED THE TAPE… AND I THINK SALEM GOT SCREWED

By now you’ve either seen the tape here on NH Sportspage, or you’ve heard about what happened in the Londonderry/Salem game. Londonderry gets a FG Blocked on 3rd down, and recover it behind the line of scrimmage… which means yes, they keep the ball, but the clock should’ve kept running. It didn’t. The refs stopped the clock, perhaps out of confusion; perhaps because Salem thinks they’ve won and is celebrating… whatever the case, they spot the ball and THEN wind the clock.

When you watch the tape, Salem only has 9 kids out there for the 2nd FG attempt, because of the confusion. Credit Londonderry for knowing the situation and executing, BUT, if the refs are going to stop the clock for confusion on their own part (AND SHOULDN’T THE REFS OF ALL PEOPLE KNOW THE RULES?!?!?!?!?), they shouldn’t have restarted the clock until they had given Salem an explanation, and allowed them to get their FG Block team on the field. A great job by Londonderry, but if you’re a Blue Devil fan, you have every right to feel hosed.

ALSO RECIEVING VOTES: You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Winger with Dave Haley, That one handed Gronk catch was obscene, The end of Winnacunnet/Spaulding was a gong show as well, Portsmouth getting healthy, What the hell has happened to the San Diego Chargers?