As the final seconds ran of the scoreboard at Gaskill Field on October 24, 2003 I knew that the biggest four weeks of my life lye in front of me. I have had many challenges upon me in fifteen years but never one this big. The state playoff's is no easy task to get through, considering all sixteen teams are fighting to hold the gold trophy at the end of the year. I knew going in; it was going to take hard work and determination from every person on the team in order for us to have control of that trophy.

Limon, Colorado, home of the Badgers that has one of the biggest football traditions in all of Colorado. The tradition goes back as far as 1933 when the first state championship was won, and thirteen more soon followed. In 2003 however, that would all change and the...