I know that this is a little out-dated, but I thought I would show Eric the similarities. I’m sure you all know about the Brookwood Parkview rivalry. This was an article I found on AJC’s website. Parkview and Brookwood are like twins. The rivalry between the two is legendary, and never fails to make the front page of the newspaper. Anyways… Here it is.

BROOKWOOD 35, PARKVIEW 14: Broncos in a rout!

Pittman, Curran lead the way

Carroll Rogers – Staff

Saturday, October 1, 2005

A year after being shut out by Parkview, the second-ranked Brookwood Broncos showed Friday night just how dangerous they can be with a little speed.

They moved David Pittman from receiver to quarterback, welcomed blue-chip running back Cameron Smith from Meadowcreek and voila, a 35-14 thrashing of No. 6 Parkview, the most lopsided Brookwood win in the rivalry since 1990.

“This is the best team they’ve ever had,” Parkview coach Cecil Flowe said afterward. “They’ve always had good teams, but now they have speed at two spots; that helps them.”

One spot is quarterback, where Pittman rushed for two scores and passed for a third on a 74-yard spiral to P.J. Katz. No. 2 is running back, where Smith rolled up 118 yards and a touchdown on 28 carries. He outdid Parkview back Caleb King, who got most of his 103 yards after the game was decided.

Ask Pittman, and the difference Friday had more to do with emotion. Teammate Greg Mercier, a backup offensive linemen, lost his older brother Thursday night in a car accident. Mikey Mercier had played on the 1996 Brookwood state championship team.

“We had a loss in our family, our football family,” Pittman said. “So we came out here, and we played strictly for him.”

Emotions of a different kind always run high in this rivalry, and Friday night’s Brookwood celebration left Flowe upset after Broncos fans poured onto midfield, where the Panthers meet at the stenciled “paw” after the game.

A Brookwood fan wandered into Parkview’s huddle and called out Flowe. After the third time, Flowe interrupted his talk and followed the fan across the field. He said afterward that he’d had words for the fan, and spoke to security about him, but Flowe eventually came back to the huddle.

“He walked up a third time; you reach your limit,” Flowe said. “[I told him] ‘If you’ve got something to say, say it right here.’ He was drunk. I could smell liquor on his face. . . . I’m trying to run my team.

“Somebody needs to control a guy who’s drunk and disorderly.”

On the field, though, Flowe knows his team was outperformed. “They whipped us,” he said.

Brookwood held the Panthers to 173 yards of offense, including 50 in the first half. Quarterback Patrick Witt was sacked four times, twice by linebacker Rennie Curran. Curran was a huge factor in limiting King, too, and was still up in King’s face on Parkview’s final series.

A 62-yard pass from Witt to Steve Esmonde set up Parkview’s first score nine minutes into the third quarter. But Brookwood answered with the Pittman-to-Katz touchdown to take a 28-7 lead.

The Broncos followed that up with a 55-yard punt return by Patrick Moran to score their third touchdown in less than six minutes.

“We’ve been waiting for this game right here,” Smith said. “It’s just another game . . . on the way to the state championship.”

With the way 6-0 Brookwood looked Friday night, that’s a hard point to argue. Parkview (4-2), which hasn’t lost more than two games in a season since 1998, has some things to overcome.

For starters, lineman J.C. Brignone — the Division I prospect who moved in from Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina — broke his left arm in practice and is out for five weeks.