This is why we have a two-day Prep Bowl

Imagine if Saturday's marathon day had been televised.

November 22, 2009 at 7:08AM

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

John Millea is on Twitter at twitter.com/stribjohn

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