Coupeville Sports

Unleash the beast, Lathom Kelley. (John Fisken photos)

“What do Wolves eat? RedHawk meat!!”

OK, let’s get this out of the way — no one thinks you’re going to win.

No one. And I mean no one.

Except me.

Call me naive. Call me stupid. Call me a true believer.

But I’m old enough to remember a time when Mike Tyson was as unbeatable as any human being on the planet has ever been.

Until he got knocked on his ass by Buster Douglas and never got back up.

It can happen. It has happened.

So, you can look at the numbers in preparation for tonight’s Coupeville vs. Port Townsend football game (7 PM kickoff at Micky Clark Field) and be swayed. A lot of people are.

The pertinent info:

Port Townsend is 5-0 overall, 3-0 in 1A Olympic League play.

They have thrown four shutouts and outscored opponents 255-6, are ranked #8 in the state AP poll and #1 by ScoreCzar.

Coupeville is 1-4, 1-2, has been outscored 175-55 and is ranked #50 on ScoreCzar, two slots BEHIND Chimacum, who they beat.

Though they are three slots ahead of South Whidbey, so it could be worse.

Every person, every computer, that picks Friday night games has come through with the same choice. They all pick the Redhawks.

It will be easy to lose, very hard to win.

But I say, why not?

Someone has to take the RedHawks down, why not the Wolves?

You’re better than your record would indicate.

A play here or there, a penalty or two less here and there, and you would have toppled South Whidbey and Klahowya and be 3-2.

You have big play weapons in Wiley Hesselgrave and Lathom Kelley and Hunter Smith and Ty Eck and a lot of other guys.

You will have the home crowd behind you.

You are the ONLY team to have beaten Port Townsend in a league football game in the season-and-a-half existence of the Olympic League.

The RedHawks are 8-1 so far and you, the Wolves, were the team that gave them that one loss last year.

So tune out the pundits. The experts. The predictors.

Buster Douglas was a 42-1 long shot, he was suffering from kidney disease and had the flu. Mike Tyson had never been knocked down, much less beaten.

Feb. 11, 1990 the boxing world got a wake up call it has never forgotten.

Oct. 9, 2015, the high school football world is waiting for that same call.