 Our countdown to kickoff continues with the Cass Lake being a Panthers. They make the jump this season from nine man football back to class A. They also are implementing a new offense for 2017. And as head coach Pete Sather says they are glad to be back home playing 11 man football. We're kind of back home. This is the conference or the district we wanted to be back in with the bagelies and black ducks and red lakes and we used to be in the old North Star conference so it's good to be back where we belong. I'm really excited to see it. It's a bigger field and we get to work more receivers and get the passing game going along with the run game with the wider field. Just to face the closer teams around like Walker, Pine River, everybody don't have to travel two and a half hours over into the farms and all that fields. It's like kids we've played growing up. Well they're traveling Thursday night at Red Lake County at Thursday 7 p.m. at Red Lake Falls. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.