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High School Football Play-off Results for November 26th

Northeast High School lost a heartbreaker in Double Overtime to Swainsboro, Central Fellowship Christian Academy has won Back to Back State Championships, and Covenant Academy won the State Championship.
Congratulations to all the local High School teams on their seasons. It is hard to believe that it is over already.
A Private
First Presbyterian Day School Lost to Prince Avenue Christian in a Quarter Final Game, 41-22

AA
Northeast High School Lost to Swainsboro in a Quarter Final Game, 12-9, In 2 OT’s.
AAAAA
Jones County High School Lost to Warner Robins in a Quarter Final Game, 49-21
GAPPS 8-man AA
Covenant Academy Defeated Johnson Ferry Christian Academy in the State Championship Game, 50-28. State Champions
GAPPS 11-man AA
Central Fellowship Christian Academy Defeated Cherokee Christian School in the State Championship Game, 20-19. Back to Back State Championships for Central Fellowship Christian Academy.
GISA 8-man Region 2
Windsor Academy – State Champions
We are very fortunate to have two local stations that cover our local high schools. Both have a Friday night show, with scores and highlights.
The End Zone on WMGT, airs every Friday night at 11:15PM.
Football Friday Night, airs every Friday night at 11:35PM

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11th Annual Boston Butt Sale To Support the Bobby Sanders Memorial Scholarships

The Macon Touchdown Club is having our 11th Annual Boston Butt Sale. The price of the tickets are $40.00.
We will use the same process as we did last year. Welch’s Country Smokehouse, located at 1687 Bass Road, will be preparing the Boston Butts. All you will need to do is, call Welch’s 24 hours in advance, 48 hours during the Holidays, and let them know when you will making your pick-up. They will have your Boston Butt ready for you to pick-up and enjoy. The tickets for this sale will be good from the day that you purchase, to January 31, 2022.
The proceeds benefit the Bobby Sanders Memorial Scholarship, awarded by the Macon Touchdown Club. Each year the Macon Touchdown Club awards these scholarships to high school seniors. Started in 1987, the Macon Touchdown Club has awarded over $372,000 in scholarships.
Tickets are available through any of the Macon Touchdown Club members.

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August 22, 2020 Update Regarding Seating Configuration For Meetings

Monday night, September 14th, 6:30PM, is getting closer and closer every day. I am looking forward to seeing everyone, and I know all of you are excited for the 75th year of the Macon Touchdown Club.

Just wanted to give you a visual of what the seating will look like this year. Instead of round tables with 8 members at each table, we will have a different look. It will be more like a classroom setup. See picture for what this will look like.

Something to consider, if you have a group of members that you like sitting with, you might consider sitting on multiple rows, within the same area of the room. That will enable you to have those conversations where you solve the world’s problems, or discuss which team to pick in the Bland Roofing Guessing Game.

If you haven’t received your membership renewal yet, please let us know.

 

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Macon Touchdown Club Update For August 19, 2020

We are looking forward to seeing everyone on September 14th.

All members should have received their renewal application last week. If you did not receive it, please let me or Garland know.

We are working with Lonnie Bivins at The Methodist Home for Children, to provide a safe environment for our members, guests, and speakers.

For now, it looks like there will be a few changes. This list could change as the year goes along. Please be flexible if changes have to be made.
(1) Masks will be required when entering the building, and will be required until everyone comes in and we are all seated at a table. Masks can be removed after everyone is seated. Masks will be put back on when you get up to get your food. Masks will be put back on when the meeting is over and we are exiting the building.
(2) The Methodist Home will have someone at the doors to check temperatures,and to keep a count on the number of people in the building.
(3) The elevator will only be accessible to Members or Guests that are Handicapped, or require the use of the elevator. All other Members or Guests should use the door on the lower level.
(4) We will not be using our name badges this year.
(5) Table seating will be more like classroom seating, with rectangular tables, instead of the round tables. This will enable us to Social Distance.
(6) The Methodist Home for Children will be putting the food on our plates while we go through the food line, instead of us serving ourselves.
(7) There will be markings on the floor as a reminder to social distance while in the food serving line.
(8) This will be a hard one, but at the end of the meeting, we will have to make an effort to not crowd around the speaker or other members.

Mike Parker has offered to have SP Design Group provide masks for anyone that will need one. They will be available at the door of the first meeting.

Thank You for being a member of the Macon Touchdown Club.

Bryant Longshore
Executive Director
bryant.longshore@gmail.com
478-808-5718

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July 21st Update

We are looking forward to seeing everyone on September 14th.

We are working with Lonnie Bivins at The Methodist Home for Children, to provide a safe environment for our members, guests, and speakers.

For now, it looks like there will be a few changes.
Masks will be required to come into the building, and will be required except when you are sitting at the table.
Table seating will be more like classroom seating, with rectangular tables, instead of the round tables. This will enable us to Social Distance.
The Methodist Home for Children will be putting the food on our plates while we go through the food line, instead of us serving ourselves.

Mike Parker has offered to have SP Design Group provide masks for anyone that will need one. They wil lbe available at the door of the first meeting.

Membership Renewal and Speaker List will be mailed soon.

Thank You for being a member of the Macon Touchdown Club.

Bryant Longshore
Executive Director
bryant.longshore@gmail.com
478-808-5718

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July 2020 Update

Hello Fellow Macon Touchdown Club Members,

I hope this letter finds you and your family in good health. These last three months have been very trying times for all of us. The COVID-19 Pandemic has caused all of us to make tremendous changes in our day to day lives. Here in Georgia, businesses are opening back up, and people are going back to work. Hopefully, within some time, things will get back to normal, and we will be able to look forward to High School and College Football.

The Officers and Directors of the Macon Touchdown Club are working out details and trying to determine what our meetings will look like in the Fall. We are working with Lonnie at the Methodist Home for Children, to provide a safe environment for our meetings. Our first meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 14th, with Mark Schlabach, as our first speaker of the year. We are looking forward to a great list of speakers, in what will be the 75th Year of the Macon Touchdown Club.

The Macon Touchdown Club Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic is scheduled for Saturday, August 22nd, and we will be asking for volunteers to assist at the game.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone in a few months.

Stay Safe, and we will have more communication in the coming weeks.

Bryant Longshore

Executive Director

Larry Mimbs

President

Davey Keys

Vice President

Russell Deese

Secretary

Garland Tyner

Treasurer

Website               https://www.macontouchdownclub.com

Facebook            https://www.facebook.com/macontouchdown1

Twitter                 @macontouchdown1

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Year Number 74 is in the Books and it was great.

Year Number 74 of the Macon Touchdown Club has come to an end. It was another great year, with great speakers, great local athletes, great fellowship, and a great venue at the Methodist Home for Children. As a club, we are truly blessed.

I want to say a special Thank You to all of the sponsors, that without their support, we could not do the things that we do for local high school football.

Chick Fil-a of Middle Georgia
Wild Wing Cafe
Sheridan Construction
McGriff Insurance Services
Sellers Construction
Langford Allergy, LLC
Howard Sheppard , Inc
OrthoGeorgia Orthopaedic Specialists
Chick Fil-a of Tom Hill Sr. Blvd and Bass Road
Carter Mechanical
Tommy’s Cafe
Cadence Bank
Greer Wealth Management – Raymond James
Bland Roofing
Smith Brown Groover, Inc.
Kenneth Kay, DMD
Coldwell Banker – SSK Realtors
Waites & Foshee Insurance Group

The Macon Touchdown Club would love for you to become member of the club. Our meetings are on Monday nights, starting the Monday after Labor Day, and runs for 12 weeks, plus the Spring Jamboree, that happens in February. The meetings start at 6:30PM, and usually ends by 8:30PM. Click on the Tab, “Join”, to find the New Membership Application.

Individual Memberships are $250.00 for all 13 meetings.
If you have a business, we have a Corporate Membership that is $450.00. This allows you to bring a co-worker or Client to the meeting with you to each meeting.

The meeting includes dinner, club activities, recognition of local high school athletes, recognition of a local high school, and the featured speaker.

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Macon Touchdown Club Annual Spring Jamboree, March 2, 2020 – SOLD OUT

We are officially SOLD OUT.

Thank You for all the support that you have shone to the Macon Touchdown Club.

It is going to be a great night, honoring young athletes for performance and academics, and coaches for what they do for the athletes that are under there watch.

 

 

 

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Macon Touchdown Club Annual Spring Jamboree, March 2, 2020 – SOLD OUT

On Monday night, March 2nd, the Macon Touchdown Club will be holding its annual Spring Jamboree.

We are fortunate to have University of Georgia Head Coach Kirby Smart as our feature speaker this year.

As always, we will meet at The Methodist Home For Children, in The Rumford Center. The address is 304 Pierce Avenue, and the meeting begins at 6:00 pm.

Guest Fee is $40.00, and includes dinner, club activities, recognition of local and state high school athletes, recognition of local and state high school coaches, and the speaker.

Tickets can be picked up at U Park Em U Sell Em, located at 3306 Vineville Avenue, between the hours of 9:30AM and 6:00PM starting on Monday, February 17th. Tickets will be sold as first come, first serve.

Purchase your tickets from Russell Deese, cash and check only, made out to Macon Touchdown Club. For information, you can call Russell at 478-550-0524.

For non-members and guests of members, a ticket must be presented at the door for admittance.

For more information, please contact Lloyd Perkins at 478-256-6374, or email to info@macontouchdownclub.com.

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Schedule For Monday, November 25, 2019

On Monday night, November 25th, the Macon Touchdown Club will welcome Coach Brett Gilliland of the University of West Alabama as our featured speaker.

Record setting quarterback and University of West Alabama Athletic Hall of Fame member Brett Gilliland is the 21st head football coach at his alma mater. The winningest coach in school history, Gilliland is 37-21 in charge of the Tiger program and showing no signs of slowing down.

Now entering his sixth season as the Tigers head coach, Gilliland returned to West Alabama from Kennesaw State, where he was coaching quarterbacks. Previous coaching stops include Georgia Tech and Georgia Southern.

In just his fourth year as head coach at UWA he led the Tigers to a 10-3 record and the 2017 Gulf South Conference championship and a third round trip in the NCAA Division II Playoffs. Under Gilliland, the Tigers became just the third team in school history to win at least 10 games and the first since 1975. He followed that with an 8-4 mark in 2018 and another playoff trip.

Following his playing days at UWA, Gilliland began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Georgia Tech before moving on to the offensive staff Georgia Southern. While at Georgia Tech, Gilliland was a part of three Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Coastal Division Championships (2006, 2008 and 2009). In 2007, Gilliland worked with Yellow Jacket quarterbacks after assisting with the receiving corps in 2006, including Biletnikoff Award winner and current Detroit Lions star Calvin Johnson. Gilliland coached the running backs for two seasons at Tech, a group that included Doak Walker semi-finalist Jonathan Dwyer. Dwyer was the ACC rushing leader and player of the year in 2008.

In three seasons at Georgia Southern, Gilliland worked with the running backs (2010), tight ends and tackles (2011) and wide receivers (2012). He took over the recruiting coordinator duties following the conclusion of the 2011 season. With Gilliland on staff, Georgia Southern posted a 31-12 (.721) overall record, won two Southern Conference titles (2011, 2012) and made three consecutive NCAA Football Championship Series (FCS) semifinal appearances during Gilliland’s time as an Eagle.

Gilliland was a regional finalist for the Harlon Hill trophy in 2003. He earned all-region recognition from the Football Gazette (2002). He concluded his career as the Tigers’ single-season (3,213) and career passing yards (6,689) record holder.

In 2012, he was inducted into the UWA Athletic Hall of Fame. At the conclusion of his playing career, Gilliland had posted four of the top 10 single game passing performances in school history, including a then school-record 470 yards against Valdosta State in 2002.

A two-time member of the All-Gulf South Conference Academic list, he was a two-time winner of the Asa Green Scholar-Athlete Award, an award presented to the UWA student-athlete with the highest grade-point average on the football team, winning it in 2001 and 2003.

A 2003 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District IV selection, he also was honored twice with a Gulf South Conference “Top Eight” award before graduating magna cum laude from UWA in 2004.

Gilliland and his wife, Amanda, are the parents of a son, Rece (8), and a daughter, Ella Kate (3). His father, Ronnie, was a member of the UWA 1971 National Championship Football team.

As always, we will meet at The Methodist Home For Children, in The Rumford Center. The address is 304 Pierce Avenue, and the meeting begins at 6:30 pm.

Guest Fee is $30.00, and includes dinner, club activities, recognition of local high school athletes, recognition of a local high school, and the speaker.

For more information, call Lloyd Perkins @ 478-256-6374

https://uwaathletics.com

 

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