{"id":1134,"date":"2008-07-19T09:52:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T13:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2008-07-24T09:54:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:54:29","slug":"70th-backyard-brawl-t-shirts-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"70th Backyard Brawl T-shirts available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/td>\n\u201908 Backyard Brawl T-shirt
\nTyrone and Bellwood-Antis football coaches show off the 2008 version of the Backyard Brawl T-shirt. B-A coach John Hayes (left) and Tyrone coach John Franco (right) display the 2008 T-shirt, while Tyrone assistant coach Chuck Banas holds the T-shirt. This is the 70th anniversary of the game. T-shirts and order forms are available at Snappy\u2019s in Bald Eagle, Joe\u2019s Place in Vail, Healthy Alternatives, The Daily Herald, Bressler\u2019s Food Mart & Sports, and Wilson\u2019s Barber Shop. (The Daily Herald\/Bob Miller)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The 70th anniversary of the Backyard Brawl is just forty-one days away, the official commemorative T-shirt is available.
\nThroughout the annals of history there have been many phrases issued that have aroused passion and emotion.\u00a0 Such phrases as \u201cI have not yet begun to fight,\u201d uttered by John Paul Jones during the American Revolution. \u201cFour score and seven years ago,\u201d issued by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. \u201cI shall return,\u201d stated by Douglas McArthur. \u201cAsk not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,\u201d made historic by John F. Kennedy. However, the phrase that stirs a very similar passion, emotion and excitement is \u201cit is time for the Backyard Brawl,\u201d issued by countless individuals of Northern Blair County over the past seventy years. Young or old, male or female, this is one of the most recognizable phrases in Northern Blair County if not throughout the entire county.
\nIt all started officially back in 1938 when the first game took place between the Tyrone Golden Eagles and then recently merged team of Bellwood-Antis. Prior to 1938 Bellwood and Antis Township were separate entities. So this makes this year\u2019s Backyard Brawl between the Tyrone Golden Eagles and the Bellwood-Antis Blue Devils the official seventy-year anniversary game between these two arch rivals.
\nThis football game between these two communities separated by one exit along Interstate-99 has brought both communities to a stand still for one Friday evening each year over the last seventy years. Both those who proudly wear the orange and black of Tyrone, or the blue and gold of Bellwood-Antis, often refer this game to \u201cas a season within a season\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Then at the conclusion of the Backyard Brawl game the other football season may begin.
\nThis year to mark the seventy-year anniversary the official Backyard Brawl T-shirt is being rolled out with a special commemorative edition. This will no doubt be a keep-sake for all fans of the Backyard Brawl. These T-shirts along with order forms are being displayed in the Tyrone area at Snappy\u2019s in Bald Eagle, Joe\u2019s Place in Vail, Healthy Alternatives, The Tyrone Daily Herald, Bressler\u2019s Food Mart & Sports and Wilson\u2019s Barber Shop. You can stop by any of these locations and complete the order form. Anyone wishing to order by telephone can call 684-7929 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. until 4:30 for order information. August 5, will be the absolute cut-off date for ordering your commemorative seventy year anniversary Backyard Brawl shirt.
\nThe count down has started. There are just a mere forty-one days remaining until the big seventy year edition of the Backyard Brawl game kicks on Friday night, August 29 at Gray Field in Tyrone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201908 Backyard Brawl T-shirt Tyrone and Bellwood-Antis football coaches show off the 2008 version of the Backyard Brawl T-shirt. B-A coach John Hayes (left) and Tyrone coach John Franco (right) display the 2008 T-shirt, while Tyrone assistant coach Chuck Banas holds the T-shirt. This is the 70th anniversary of the game. T-shirts and order forms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}