The Owner's Box, Ep. 34.

Attleboro (blue) and North Attleboro will play twice in 2021 with a holiday feel.

It's been a while since our last audio podcast, but we've got a compact one (less than 40 minutes) that's just jam-packed with goodies.

At the top of the list are the conversations I had with North Attleboro High School football coach Don Johnson and Attleboro High coach Mike Strachan about the special circumstances surrounding Saturday's game between their teams at North Attleboro's Community Field.

The Thanksgiving game that was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic would have been the 100th holiday meeting of the teams, so the coaches, athletic directors, school administrations and civic leaders got together and determined that there would be special designations for the two games that will be played in the 2021 calendar year.

Saturday's game (10 a.m. start) is the "Century Game," marking the 100th anniversary of North Attleboro football. Then in November, Attleboro will play host to the official 100th holiday game. The teams will therefore have played 104 times before that one, but some were played in consecutive Octobers when the Hockomock League divisional split forced them to play twice in a season, and one was an MIAA Super Bowl.

Also, I top off the episode with a timely "Final Rant." All yours in the most popular podcast Mansfield has ever produced.