East Ridge Nominated for 'Game of the Week'

The East Ridge football game with Anderson County slated for Sept. 29 has been nominated as a Titans High School Game of the Week.

Each week a panel of media members will select top high school football matchups from across the state. The games nominated are eligible to selected as the Academy Sports Outdoors High School Game of the Week. Fans are encouraged to vote for their preferred game throughout the week by going to this Website. The game with the most votes will become the Game of the Week. The winning head coach will be named the Titans High School Coach of the Week.

The head coach of both schools will receive a $100 gift card courtesy of Academy Sports and each Coach of the Week winner will receive a grant from the Tennessee Titans in the amount of $1,000 to benefit their school’s football program.

Voting begins on Monday, Sept. 25 and closes at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 27.

So, all you Pioneer fans, click on this link and cast your vote for East Ridge to be THE game.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.