TAUNTON - The football has yet to be kicked off in the Mansfield-Bishop Feehan playoff game, but the legal battle has been engaged. The Division 2 semifinal, originally scheduled to be played yesterday, had been declared a forfeit Monday when the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association learned from Mansfield that the school may have used an ineligible player in two games this season. Yesterday, Mansfield was granted a temporary injunction in Taunton Superior Court allowing it to play the game tonight.But the MIAA announced last night that it will file a motion with the Massachusetts Court of Appeals to overturn that decision, and should the motion be granted, the game would be canceled and Bishop Feehan would advance to Saturday's Super Bowl to meet Walpole.  The game was originally declared a forfeit yesterday by the MIAA after it learned earlier in the day that Mansfield used an ineligible, fifth-year player in two of its regular-season wins this fall.   According to Redding, (Mansfield’s Coach) whispers first started floating around that the Hornets might have used an ineligible player during Wednesday's pep rally in advance of the Thanksgiving Day game against Foxboro. Redding held the player out of that game (not unusual considering he played only seven downs in two lopsided victories) and met with him over the weekend to discuss the issue.

So Mansfield used a 5^th year senior (whatever that is) for a combined 7 plays in garbage time during the course of the season and the MIAA wants to make them forfeit?   Are you shitting me?  Yeah I know a rule is a rule, but how about using some common sense.    Listen this isn’t like when Marblehead smuggled in Aaron Fox (Rick’s Fox’s brother) so they could beat Swampscott in hoops which they still couldn’t do.  We’re talking about some kid who can’t even get playing time in his 5th year in the program!   I’m pretty sure Mansfield wasn’t intentionally trying to pull one over on people and didn’t gain an advantage from it.   So why ruin what will be a life long memory for like 40 kids just to prove some dumb ass point that doesn’t even prove anything?   The MIAA can go fuck themselves as far as I’m concerned.  I mean they most be some fat, power hungry, upset with life mother fuckers huh?    This is just a typical example of people who think are more important than they really are trying to justify their existence by doing something totally ridiculous.   I don’t want to say the members of the MIAA should be shot, but they should at least be stabbed.