PETERSEN: Timpview is about football again

Even as Timpview football players were celebrating one of the most dramatic state championships ever, social media cling-ons started to chime in with negativity.

The most common theme: Timpview, a group of cheaters full of questionable eligibility, shouldn’t have been allowed a shot at the title in the first place.

Please.

Say what you want about the UHSAA (as many already have), but in the case of Timpview they handed out the maximum punishment allowed. The Thunderbirds forfeited each and every game in which an ineligible player participated. Anything more would have crossed the line between justice and jaundice.

This wasn’t about Timpview “deserving” to win. It was about them needing to.