Listicles are great- but my weekly listicle is REALLY great. These are the Top 10 things of the week as voted on by the voices in my own head. Dave doesn’t get a vote in THIS power poll, either.

10. WHAT’S UP WITH STARTING THE SEASON ON LABOR DAY WEEKEND?!?!
I was driving to the Merrimack – Portsmouth game Friday night, and luckily I was westbound on 101, because it was a parking lot eastbound. I don’t know what crowds around the state looked like, but it was a little thin at Merrimack, and I blame the holiday. BTW, I don’t have a good solution for what to do about this, I just like to complain.


9. NEW HAMPSHIRE IS VERMONT’S DADDY, PLYMOUTH DRIVES THE POINT HOME.
Hey, Rutland VT- Plymouth likes to run the ball. Spoiler alert. The Bobcats ran for 578 yards on their way to a 54-28 win against the Rutland Whatever They’re Calleds (Editor’s note: “Raiders”) (McIsaac’s note to the editor: Should be “Speed Bumps”).  Was there a sport this year that NH didn’t completely dominate the Green Mountain state in this year? Next year we’ll send the Basketball kids to play in the Shrine Football game, and vice versa, just to give them a chance.


8. TRINITY IS GOING TO WIN THE MANCHESTER TURKEY BOWL THIS YEAR
I’d bet my house and everything in it on that. Burnsie and company were up 50-0 on West at the half Friday night. Central took a beating, and Memorial got doubled up. I’m already looking forward to the last night of the regular season when STA visits Trinity in the Holy War. Speaking of the Saints…


7. SAINT THOMAS PUTS UP A 60 BURGER ON SANBRON
Usually when you talk to coaches in the off season, they try to convince you that they will be the 2nd coming of the 1916 Cumberland College Bulldogs (look it up kids-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Cumberland_vs._Georgia_Tech_football_game). When I bumped into Coach Eric Cumba at the Seacoast football jamboree, he was confident that his team would be “pretty good”. 60 points and 550 yards in game 1 confirms that, I’d say


6. TRUMP MANIA RUNNING WILD
I personally can’t get enough of Donald Trump and his campaign. At this point, he could get caught running a fight club with toddlers, executing the losing toddlers, and still see a 4 point bump in the polls. Poor Marco Rubio is going to have to have to set someone on fire live on TV to get any press.
Let’s not forget, it is very possible that our next President could be a man that shaved Vince McMahon’s head at WrestleMania. I’m not trying to tell anyone how to vote, I’m just saying that should be a factor is all.


5. EVEN WITHOUT URBANIK, PINKERTON IS STILL PINKERTON
TJ Urbanik is a ton of fun to watch, and unfortunately for NH Football fans, he’s out for the year with a knee injury. Pinkerton didn’t miss a beat against my beloved Spaulding Fighting McIsaacs on opening night, though, winning 36-12. It’s too early to predict a Pinkerton v Bedford D1 title game rematch, but if you put a gun to my head, after asking you why you wanted to shoot me over HS Football, I’d bet on it.


4. HEY HOW ABOUT CON-VAL?!?! 
Con-Val took part in the Seacoast Jamboree this year, and I interviewed Coach Paul Landau for a few minutes afterward. Dave Haley said to me the next day “I think that’s the first time we’ve ever had Con-Val on the site”  Well, what I’ll now refer to as the McIsaac Effect worked like a charm on opening night, as the Cougars beat Pelham 37-28 (Matt Regan is just now finding the strength to get out of bed after seeing his Pythons take an L). WHO WILL FEEL THE MCISAAC EFFECT NEXT?!?


3. RIP MY STAFF PICKS 
3-7. Is that bad? It sounds bad. And Dave didn’t even put the Spaulding v Pinkerton game up, since he knows I pick Spaulding every single time, even if they played the 2014 Patriots.


2. DAVE HALEY SAID ROLF WAS HIS TOP MUPPET
He did! On the new ESPN NH Show! Now, don’t get me wrong, Rolf is a hell of a Muppet. But let’s get real, he’s a supporting character. The Muppet Mt. Rushmore is Kermit, Fozzy, Ms. Piggy, and Gonzo. End of debate. I’d pick Statler and Woldorf over Rolf, for god’s sake.


1. NOW GO GET YOUR $^@)!@# SHINE BOX, GOODELL
You can’t have a worse couple of year than Roger Goodell. The Ray Rice tape and his bumbling response, The entire deflategate saga (SEVEN MONTHS OF THAT BS!) ending with him getting absolutely KTFO’d by Judge Berman. I don’t know how this clown sleeps at night. No, wait, I do, it’s on a mattress made of $100 bills.


ALSO RECIVING VOTES: BatDad, GTFO with your pumpkin spice beer, Joe Marchilena, Farmington/Nute running the Single Wing, The Red Sox have sneaky been a ton of fun for the last month, Dave’s leisurely hike up a mountain


Justin McIsaac is the Sports Director at WTSN AM 1270 in Dover. Follow him on twitter @Justin_McIsaac