BY GREGG SARRA
This was no way to start a Wednesday morning. Fax machines were backed up, phones were busy and there was a bit of an edge surrounding high school football. It was National Signing Day and I vowed to see as many happy faces as possible. Of course, I wasn't going to drive all over the Island again, like I did for the Super Bowl picks. But I'll admit that was fun.
Oh yeah, Floyd's Joe Sidaras and Alex Rivas of East Meadow, you were wrong, Giants Baby. Shout out to East Islip's Rob Calabrese, Larry Cohen, Tim Moller, Floyd's Brock Jackolski and Islip's Malcolm Brown and Edgar Cesar, you all picked the Giants to win. As Borat would say, "Very Nice".
Back to signing day. The East Islip people did it right. They honored Calabrese and Moller with a special signing get together. Two great kids, proud parents and lots of smiles at EI.
Same kudos at Floyd where the administration also thought enough of what the football team has produced in the district and proudly announced the big signings of Jackolski and Sidaras. Very professional and a class act all the way from the top to the bottom. By the way that WILLIAM FLOYD banner with the Colonial in the middle is ridiculously huge.
Congrats to all of Long Island's football players, who will continue to play the sport they love at the next level. Check out Andy Slawson's list of college signings. If we missed you, we apologize, and please contact me and we'll update the list.
For the underclassmen, follow your dreams, get great grades, train hard, listen to your coaches and get ready to hit next fall as our Mark LaMonica would say, because Big Suffolk is making his way into the 516!!!!