By John Millea

Saturday's six-game state football semifinal schedule at the Metrodome began at 8 a.m. and ended at almost 11:30 p.m.

By my Iowa math that's darn near 16 hours of football. If that lineup had taken place on a Prep Bowl during the old one-day format ... good golly, with TV timeouts the final whistle wouldn't have blown until 1 a.m. or later.

Thank goodness the Prep Bowl is a two-day affair. And that's where we'll be on Friday, watching four state championship games back at the gold ol' Metrodome, followed by two more on Saturday.

I'm going to sleep now. It's after 1 o'clock in the morning, I just got home and the weiner dog is already snoring.

zzzzzzzzzzzz

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