It was about 42 degrees when I got ready for work this morning. It's mostly cloudy outdoors.

You may have heard that Barrow High School now has a football team. They played the first American HS football game above the Arctic Circle earlier this month. One major obstacle to their football program is that their nearest competitor is over 500 miles away near Fairbanks. They are only scheduled to play 4 games this season. I believe they either fly their competitors in to Barrow or they fly themselves to their opponent. Their most distant opponent is in Sitka, 1100 miles away... There are numerous articles about this on the web right now. Here's a link http://www.adn.com/sports/prep/football/story/8128351p-8020723c.html. Don't forget to click on "More Photos".

Anyway, turns out the Barrow cheerleaders don't know any football cheers. They've mostly cheered for basketball... a nice cozy indoor sport. So our cheerleaders might try to help them out by videotaping ourselves doing some cheer instruction and mailing it to Barrow. There is also talk of having a cheer clinic with them either here in Chugiak or there in Barrow. We'll keep you posted on that one.