A perfectly wonderful Wolfpack

Perfect.

That’s the way the Class AA football season ended for the Glacier Wolfpack, which overwhelmed the C.M. Russell Rustlers in the state championship game Friday night.

The 56-19 blowout — the latest in a season full of dominant triumphs — gave Glacier its first state football title and capped a perfect season of 13 wins and no defeats.

The title triumph came before a loud standing-room-only crowd at Legends Stadium (Thanks, Kalispell fans, for showing up in force to cheer the Wolfpack on to victory!)

Congratulations to the players, their parents and the coaches for a stupendous achievement.

Winning a state title at the top level of Montana high school football is a difficult enough feat. Winning it with an undefeated season and in such dominating fashion (the average margin of victory was 36 points) make this one for the ages.

Kalispell football fans will get one more chance to cheer on their state champions at a parade tonight.

The Wolfpack team and cheerleaders will be part of the Christmas City of the North Parade that starts at 6 p.m. on Main Street.

Come on downtown to see our champions!

Go Griz! Go Bobcats!

Many local football fans will have more to root for on Saturday when both the University of Montana Grizzlies and the Montana State Bobcats compete in the first round of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

Last Saturday, the Grizzlies tamed the Bobcats 34-7 in the 114th Brawl of the Wild, much to the satisfaction of many fans in Western Montana.

But now both teams should have the support of a united Montana, even though the games will once again be televised in Montana only through a pay-per-view arrangement online that has very limited audience reach.

UM starts off on Saturday with the unranked University of San Diego while MSU faces 14th-ranked South Dakota State. If they should prove victorious, the road to a championship will be a hard one. For week two, the Grizzlies would face dangerous Big Sky rival Eastern Washington in Cheney, and the Bobcats would be headed to Fargo to play three-time defending champ North Dakota State.

Oddly enough though, thanks to the bracket configuration, Montana and Montana State could actually play for the national championship in four weeks should they both win out.

Now, that would be a Brawl of the Wild that would have all of Montana rocking!

Editorials represent the majority opinion of the Daily Inter Lake’s editorial board.