Last week, I deemed Kenosha County the king of quality fields for high school athletics.

After Central’s stadium opens, the county will have five synthetic turf football/soccer stadiums available for use — Ameche Field, Art Keller Field, Frank Bucci Field and Indian Trail Stadium.

Just having the facilities available isn’t good enough for some people.

“It should have said, ‘Bradford: The land that time forgot,’ ” a four-minute diatribe by an anonymous caller last Friday began. “Bradford High School never got its football stadium. Every other school seems to have one except St. Joe, but the oldest school in the county doesn’t have one.

“The kids have to go somewhere else, share this, share that. Even Indian Trail, which doesn’t have sports teams yet, has its own state-of-the-art football field, once again as Bradford languishes behind.

“As a Bradford alumnus and parent of a student, I am not proud of the way the school district has taken care of Bradford and its football program.”

The caller also brought up the old Ameche Field in Tremper’s backyard argument as an affront to the Bradford faithful.

While the caller is right that Bradford never got its own stadium, I guess this Bradford alumnus and parent of a student doesn’t see what the big deal is. I think it’s a bigger problem for practice than it is the games.

On Friday nights, the facilities at Carthage and across town at Ameche Field are more than adequate. The perpetual “road trip” has also gotten the Red Devils’ fan base used to its weekly habit of turning out in the thousands no matter where Bradford plays.

Fantasy Flash

For those who play fantasy football, here’s a brief look at this week’s players to watch:

* Must start: New York Giants wide receivers. No defense has fallen as far as fast as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Both Steve Smith and Mario Manningham had great games against Dallas last Sunday night and Eli Manning & Co. will attack through the air again vs. the Bucs.

* Bust: Frank Gore. After a monster week against Seattle, the San Francisco stud running back will find the going much tougher against Minnesota.

* Sleeper: Lee Evans. The former Wisconsin wideout is playing his usual fantasy role — average to below-average weeks. The great thing about Evans is he usually has two or three enormous games. Count this week’s home game vs. New Orleans as one of them.

Book it

Carthage rode Evan Jones’ right arm to a 50-34 record-setting victory over Lakeland in the home opener, pushing my season record to 23-21.

This week, give me the Packers to rebound from a disappointing loss to Cincinnati with a victory over St. Louis.

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