The Owner's Box After Dark, Ep. 44.

Members of the North Attleboro and Attleboro teams show their throwback uniforms.

It's the last weekend of the "2020" high school football season (I think that's better than calling it "Fall II"), so I devote the latest After Dark episode to topics related to the final games being played tonight and tomorrow.

With Attleboro High and North Attleboro High having turned their canceled 100th annual holiday meeting in 2020 into a two-game celebration in 2021, I talk to North coach Don Johnson and AHS coach Mike Strachan about the "Century Game" to be played at Community Field on Saturday as well as November's "official" 100th annual holiday game, And remember -- for the complete interviews, go to my original audio podcast, The Owner's Box (Ep. 34), and you can find a link to that on the post below this one. 

I also discuss the cancellation of the 90th annual meeting of Mansfield High and Foxboro High on the gridiron because of a COVID-19 outbreak in Foxboro. It's the first time since 1938 that the two schools' football teams won't be playing, but Mansfield (5-0) picked up a game against 4-0 Marshfield for tonight to replace it.

Before we get to all that, however, I explain why I have such a love for Southern-style pork barbecue sandwiches and why I have spent a lifetime trying to replicate the flavor and texture of the sandwiches I used to buy at a small BBQ joint in Williston, Fla., back in the 1960s -- and they are still sold there today.

And there's also some quick talk about the Patriots Hall of Fame -- and why there won't be a new member this year. The nominating committee met yesterday, but we're going to give new Hall of Famer Richard Seymour the due this year that he was denied by the pandemic last season.

It's all in the 44th episode of The Owner's Box After Dark ... a little while in the making since the last episode, but well worth the wait.