I was so glad to meet you today. Your team played with amazing talent and class, and they have great reason to hold their heads high! That was the way a championship game should go...a nailbiter to the end. I know why you have the names you do here. Lots of reason to bleed navy and to be Dinwiddie Proud.
Dinwiddie Proud and Bleeding Navy
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You will find no 2 classier gentlemen! it was my privilege to meet them 3 years ago and I'm so fortunate to call them my friends, my brothers (well maybe dad's would be more appropriate, they are in fact older than dirt!)
For the record I am 51. Just a bald, fat and beat up former athlete. I love all sports and kids in general. Nothing special here just a man trying to give back a little of the tons of wisdom I received as a young man.
Enjoyed meeting everyone. I especially enjoyed picking on the Byrd/Craft family (have known them for years) before the game. I sent a Vodoo spell video to them before the game and they showed it to the people on the Salem bus. I tried, but it didnt work. Lol.
I have tried many times to explain why I have adopted Navy Nation and chose Dinwiddie as my second home since 1989. I hope everyone now understands. We respect each team/fan we meet. God bless and may you all have a safe holiday season.
Enjoyed meeting everyone. I especially enjoyed picking on the Byrd/Craft family (have known them for years) before the game. I sent a Vodoo spell video to them before the game and they showed it to the people on the Salem bus. I tried, but it didnt work. Lol.
I have tried many times to explain why I have adopted Navy Nation and chose Dinwiddie as my second home since 1989. I hope everyone now understands. We respect each team/fan we meet. God bless and may you all have a safe holiday season.
It's a good program to get behind and the fan base is one of the friendlier in the region, even when you are a complete stranger. I was glad I finally made it down there this year, even if we had to wait till November. I think Dinwiddie should make you and DP official ambassadors, lol!
I agree, DP and BleedingNavy are two of the classiest men you'll ever meet. I haven't seen BleedingNavy in 30yrs and picked right up where we had left off and had the pleasure of meeting DP in person for the first time. Seems like I have known him for years through our text conversations. I'm so glad I"ve become friends of both of these men. These two are great Dinwiddie Generals ambassadors.
Thanks Street. Its sometimes easy to forget about people and places like home when you move away and start your own family.
Reconnecting with you, talking about common coaches and our wonderful fathers that worked their tails off to give us the opportunity to they never had was very special. Its amazing how a simple game can bring people together or back together for that matter.
I look forward to following your sons growth as a player and a person. Someday I hope to meet your whole family.
@SpartanForce it was also nice to see you again. I can't express how much your family has meant to me in the past 30 years. Even though my team lost you guys know I was pulling for one special Spartan.
@MikeSalem don't be so happy! You would think your team won the state championship or something. Oh snap they did. Lol. By the way I put a Navy Nation sticker on the back of your chair.
To the rest of the Preps posters thanks for taking the time to speak to us and giving Mike the opportunity to enjoy the game live.
Love you Navy! There was somebody smiling down from heaven yesterday. Not only because the light of his life was on the field, but that after all these years we got to meet up on such a happy occasion. You were definitely one of his best friends and that friendship spanned many years. And yeah, you still resemble that 1987 photo a little bit!
Our Mike Salem is a wonderful man and our kids and fans love him. Funny how this board and Mike's association with it lead us to put the puzzle pieces together and realize you were that skinny kid playing fastpitch softball many years ago. The Big Dawg would have loved it!
Our Mike Salem is a wonderful man and our kids and fans love him. Funny how this board and Mike's association with it lead us to put the puzzle pieces together and realize you were that skinny kid playing fastpitch softball many years ago. The Big Dawg would have loved it!
Great Fans from Dinwiddie very respectful, wonderful people Class Act The fans and both teams.
I've been absent since Saturday, only because I HAD to work. I put virtually everything businesswise on hold for the last few weeks. Sunday, I started paying the old fiddler back. (16 hour day). This morning I was in the office at 5:00am. And absolutly no complaints. I would do it all over again.
Dinwiddie may have left Williamsburg with a few less points on the scoreboard, but nobody lost. Everybody won. Salem earned that state championship, no question about that. But, we all, meaning fans and teams alike, came away winners. From the competition, to the sportsmanship, to the friendships new and old, there were no losers.
I was so glad to see my Preps friends again. And to meet the new ones. The opportunity to occasionally meet you gals and guys in person is truly some of the best days of my life. I thank you for being my friend.
On occasion, I have exchanged a few text and emails with Chris King, the Salem AD. I call him my friend, but we seldom have the chance to make small talk. After the game Saturday, Chris took time to send me a text expressing how impressed he was with the competition and sportsmanship Dinwiddie displayed, especially after the game. And of course, he tried to dry my tears. The fact that he would take a few minutes while they were in the middle of celebrating a great victory, just meant the world to me. Salem is fortunate to have such a kind and considerate person representing Salem athletics.
On a lighter note, that 1987 picture on Bleeding Navy would need to be taken with a panoramic camera if taken today. And Mike, when your "dads" post that picture of you wearing the Generals hat, you will have hell to pay to your Spartan friends.
Dinwiddie may have left Williamsburg with a few less points on the scoreboard, but nobody lost. Everybody won. Salem earned that state championship, no question about that. But, we all, meaning fans and teams alike, came away winners. From the competition, to the sportsmanship, to the friendships new and old, there were no losers.
I was so glad to see my Preps friends again. And to meet the new ones. The opportunity to occasionally meet you gals and guys in person is truly some of the best days of my life. I thank you for being my friend.
On occasion, I have exchanged a few text and emails with Chris King, the Salem AD. I call him my friend, but we seldom have the chance to make small talk. After the game Saturday, Chris took time to send me a text expressing how impressed he was with the competition and sportsmanship Dinwiddie displayed, especially after the game. And of course, he tried to dry my tears. The fact that he would take a few minutes while they were in the middle of celebrating a great victory, just meant the world to me. Salem is fortunate to have such a kind and considerate person representing Salem athletics.
On a lighter note, that 1987 picture on Bleeding Navy would need to be taken with a panoramic camera if taken today. And Mike, when your "dads" post that picture of you wearing the Generals hat, you will have hell to pay to your Spartan friends.
I think I'll be forgiven since Salem won and I already posted on the Salem Football Fans Facebook page the 3 things Tim did to rib me:
Putting the Dinwiddie hat over my Salem hat.
Making the hat bet depending on the outcome.
And of course the stress ball gift.
I think everyone will probably just remember my response to his ball gift! Tim came at me with both barrels blazing, he was wired up! I'll have to get up to the store to get Tim's Salem hat, I'll need his address.
Send the hat to me in care of the "Nut House". Its not the first time I have been accused of being a quarter short of a dollar. Hold on to it. I plan to visit home during the holidays and drop by and say hello if thats okay.
Everything I did was improv. When I met DP for the ride down I saw the ball in my back seat and Mike. The bet was just stupid and the hat just seemed to fit. The picture is awesome and I will have it framed.
Everything I did was improv. When I met DP for the ride down I saw the ball in my back seat and Mike. The bet was just stupid and the hat just seemed to fit. The picture is awesome and I will have it framed.
We were all just wired up and having a good time. I enjoyed it and I will have to wait 8 more months to start it all over again.
I have another picture I need to frame. If you look at my new Avatar it's a picture of all of the Salem Coaching staff surrounding me while I hold the trophy! Coach Magenbauer and the whole staff is just class on & off the field. With everything that happened this past weekend, it will always be a cherished memory for me personally.
Mike, I think your brother snapped a few pictures of all of us at the game. Please send me copies if you can.
Dinwiddie Proud, I want to stress how thankful the Salem fans were for the level of class and the level of play your team and fans showed. I watched your team walk sadly across the field to the buses after that game, and I hated it. Your team had so much talent and absolutely no quit. They were going to play tough no matter what, and it made for a fabulous game. No one likes second, and it hurts not to win...but they need to know and remember that the Salem fans and players have a lot of respect for them. Salem people keep filling our fans page with positive words about how great it was to play Dinwiddie and how impressed they were by their classy fans. Can you make sure their players and fans know this? Please let them know that we are glad to have played them and look forward to the challenge and opportunity to play/interact with them in the years to come. Thank you.
I ended up sitting on the Dinwiddie side because of the chair. The fans seemed just as classy and respectful as the players and coaches. The prayer after the game was such a show of respect and class. I'm looking forward to 9 months from now when the Generals come to Salem Stadium.
Thank you my friend. I will see to it that your message is presented to the entire team.
Games, and players, and fans like the one's that were in attendance at Williamsburg this past Saturday is why I am so attached to high school sports. Not just from Salem and Dinwiddie , but the fans I sat with on the Staunton River side, and certainly the Blacksburg fans, were all part of what had to be one of the best championship atmospheres you could hope to be a part of.
I think I am more proud of the team than I would have been, had they won the game. The best way to qualify that statement is use the old cliche, "adversity doesn't make character, it reveals it".