 What if I told you a Kentucky high school football team finished the season undefeated get failed to make the postseason? What if I told you the same school won 14 consecutive district games over back-to-back seasons and both times failed to reach the playoffs. This happened here in the mountains nearly 40 years ago and the sting of being denied the opportunity to prove themselves still burns today. Yet the situation in the story changed how the Kentucky high school football playoffs are conducted. In 1977 the Wehrite Trojans finished with an undefeated record in district play yet at the time only the district champion qualified for the postseason in both 1976 and 77 that champion was the Painsville Tigers and in each season neither school faced off against each other. Back in 1977 we was 7-0 and we played everybody in our district at the time except Painsville. Painsville played four teams in a district. They were full or not. But they played teams outside of our district that had winning records and we played Greenup County, Borea and since our quiet sport. So we played our district games. When we played our district games we thought that because we played more district games, which is it should that we will be counted as district champions and we won more district, won three more district games. According to a November 12th, 1977 article in the Courier Journal the lawsuit claimed that had Painsville not been allowed to designate an out-of-district team as its fourth district opponent, we're right would have been declared the district champions. A loophole, so to speak. Trojan Head coach Don Daniels was quoted as saying the best thing to do would be to get on the football field and find out which team is best. Taking high school athletics association wound that since Painsville had opponents that their totalers added up more wins than our district. Opponents that we'd be that they should go to the playoffs. So they ended up won playoffs. In that process, my dad sued the Kentucky High School Athletics Association. Ultimately the KHSAA Board of Control denied we're rights appeal for a one-game playoff with Painsville. Yet down the road the board ruled that each football team must play every other team in its district to be eligible for the playoffs, a ruling that's still in effect today. We didn't want somebody to give us something. They beat us on the field fine, but we wanted to play that Thursday and then play the playoff game the next Monday. Yet fans and members of the 1977 will ride Trojans will never know what might have been.