[Frozenbird]

Highlands vs Newport Central Catholic was a BIG rivalry, bigger than Cov Cath, before NCC stopped playing Highlands around 1984. In part, this was due to the fact that so many of the NCC players lived in Ft Thomas.

Given that my father and uncle graduated from New Cath, my cousins went to New Cath, my grandfather was a big New Cath fan and I was going to Highlands, there was alot of familial conflict around that game for me.

The week prior to the game also always involved a fair amount of vandalism of the football facilities at both schools (I remember a number of years where someone painted a large NC over the H on the 50 yard line of the Highlands field) and I remember a number of fights at local restaurants after the game when Highlands and New Cath fans would run into each other. (I specifically remember a conflict in the parking lot of the Dixie Chili on Monmouth street in Newport which I got sucked into my junior year.)

Sort of wish that that rivalry would resume.