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We’ve also got two college football games tonight, NFL tomorrow and a whole slate of both on Saturday and Sunday. It’s all ahead of us right now, folks. Let’s lock it in, and not waste a single second.
SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM SENDS A MESSAGE TO THE WOMAN-HATING WNBA PLAYERS WITH HER HAT, CRANKY PRIME & MAGGIE SAJAK!
Let’s roll.
Welcome to a Hump Day Nightcaps — the one where a high school football team in Ohio pulled off maybe the most amazing half of football I’ve ever seen.
Spoiler alert: They managed to possess the football for all 24 minutes. Every single one of them. Animals.
You’ll see!
What else? I’ve got an update on the NASCAR driver who owes an ex-wife $850K after seducing her husband, the wokes are mad at Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark for two hilarious reasons and we’ve got two postseason pitchers taking very different approaches to the birth of their children this week.
Shockingly, it’s caused quite a stir on social media. That almost never happens. We’re always so agreeable!
OK, grab you a Fluffernutter in preparation for tomorrow’s National Fluffernutter Day, and settle in for a Hump Day ‘Cap!
A high school football masterclass
Look at that commercial. Man, what a time to be alive. Watch that, and then pay attention to the garbage we get in between innings of today’s baseball game(s).
It’s shocking. It’s so sad. Our creativity has just gone down the toilet.
Pathetic.
Anyway, I do love a good fluffernutter. Admittedly, it’s been, easily, 20 years since I’ve had one, but man they were elite back in middle and high school. I assume fluff has been all but canceled in today’s MAHA world, which is fine. I live with a MAHA mom. Trust me, I get it.
FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME ERUPTS INTO VIOLENT BRAWL INVOLVING PLAYERS, COACHES AFTER FINAL WHISTLE
But goodness gracious, they were the best back in the day. Opening up your brown bag in the middle school cafeteria and seeing that mom packed you a fluffernutter sammy was the best feeling.
Simpler times.
OK, let’s stay in grade school and get this class started with a couple Ohio high school football team playing keep-away from each other last Friday night.
Amazing:
Scorned NASCAR wife had a pretty loud smoking gun
I went back and watched the entire second, and can confirm that Fairmont did indeed possess the ball all 24 minutes. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Just ground-n-pound the length of the field — twice — and execute a pair of onside kicks. Wild stuff. Reminded me of my high school’s old Wing-T offense.
Those games were absolute slobberknockers every single time. I miss the heck outta them.
Now, some folks are asking about the onside kicks…
La Salle linebacker Colin Wooldridge eyes the opponent during the Fairmont vs. La Salle football game Friday, Sept. 5, 2025, at La Salle High School. (USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)
The first “onside” kick wasn’t visible on the above YouTube stream because the video froze, but the announcers did call it an onside kick.
The second one wasn’t so much an onside kick as it was the kicker just drilling the opposing player in front of him and Fairmont pouncing on the ball. Not sure if that was the plan or not, but it worked out.
Regardless, the final stats are staggering:
- 35:12-12:48 time of possession.
- 371-108 total yard advantage.
- Fairmont finished with 277 rushing yards on 51 (!!!) carries.
- 37 second half plays for the Firebirds, 158 total yards. 24 minutes off the clock.
I covered a lot of high school football back in the day. I don’t think I missed a Friday night in seven years. I came semi-close to one of these games back in 2015 when I watched a huge underdog just run the wildcat for an entire quarter. They gained about three yards per carry, and then converted all the fourth downs. It was incredible. Ate up almost 12 straight minutes.
What a game. What a sport. High school football is the best.
You know what’s NOT the best? Cheating on your spouse in a Comfort Inn and letting the whole hotel know about it:
Sophie, Caitlin & paternity leave in October?
So, I wrote about that in last Thursday’s Nightcaps, and I’m happy (?) to report that we have our smoking gun in the case.
According to court records obtained by the Daily Mail, the ex-wife of longtime NASCAR spotter Clayton Hughes hired a private investigator months before the two divorced. The PI, Jim Rorie, told a court that he heard Jennifer Jo Cobb and Hughes having “rambunctious” sex in a Comfort Inn on Oct. 2020 after he followed him to the hotel via a tracking device planted on his car.
“There was no doubt about what I was hearing,” he told a court, adding that he heard “the squeaking of the bed, quite a bit of that, female tones moaning — and occasionally a male’s voice.
Jennifer Jo Cobb, driver of the No. 14 DrivenMale.com Ford, stands on the grid prior to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway on March 27, 2010, in Martinsville, Va. (Getty Images for NASCAR)
“As the squeaking continued, the tones of a male moaning and saying, ‘Oh f–k’ and ‘Oh my God’ were distinctly heard,” Rorie continued. “I believe there was one point where I heard the female yell, ‘Don’t stop.'”
Welp. Probably not the worst thing to happen in a Comfort Inn in Martinsville, but it’s certainly up there!
OK, let’s rapid-fire this Hump Day class into a big Hump Day night. First up? Let’s see how the miserable wokes are handling Day 3 of the Indiana Fever’s offseason …
Let me get this straight …
You’ve got one insufferable columnist from the woke New York Times saying Sophie Cunningham should be cut because she’s too much of a distraction … because she told ESPN six months ago that men shouldn’t be in women’s locker rooms?
Okeedokee!
At the same time, you have someone I’ve never heard of in my life, Charlotte Wilder, getting all bent out of shape because Caitlin Clark hung out with Pat McAfee on College GameDay?
Really?
These people are so far gone, and so beyond broken, it’s almost unfathomable.
Almost.
What a bunch of weirdos. We live in such a silly time period. My late grandfather always used to tell me, “You really do realize how [stupid] people are the older you get.”
He did NOT use the word stupid, by the way, but I’ll let y’all figure that one out on your own.
OK, on the way out, I want to leave the class with a question that’s currently dividing the internet …
If your wife is having your baby in October, are you missing playoff baseball games for it?
So, the best closer in baseball — Mason Miller — missed last night’s do-or-die Game 3 for the birth of his child. Meanwhile, Yankees starter Max Fried says he ain’t missing a single pitch for the birth of his kid.
Where we stand on this, folks? On one hand, these dudes get paid handsomely for these moments. For October baseball. For the playoffs.
On the other hand … it’s the birth of your child. That’s a big deal … for some, at least.
I wanna hear what YOU think. Let it RIP.
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See y’all tomorrow.
Lemme know! Zach.Dean@OutKick.com.