I'm not going to take this personally, but when I asked all of you high school football savants out there to consider being part of our guest blogger rotation, I expected somebody to respond.

Not so much.

So I ask again. If you are a fan of Naperville area high school football, a coach of pee-wee football, a parent who owns two dozen of those picture buttons, a cheerleader who has a unique perspective, a backup player who has a good view of the game, a teacher who always wanted to be a coach, or, you know, a warm body with a computer at home, let us know.

We want the community to contribute to Football Fever. The guest blogger will be a regular feature every week. You don't have to do it every week. Once is enough for us to get started.

So send me an email at sfuchs@scn1.com and let's do this thing.

Do you think you know everything about high school football in the Naperville area? Do you have something to say?

If your keyboard is itching to be scratched, you could be a guest blogger on Football Fever.

We are looking for coaches, players, student journalists, fans, parents, alumni, referees, chain gang workers, consession stand workers, etc. It doesn't matter. If you follow Naperville North, Naperville Central, Neuqua Valley, Wabusonsie Valley or Benet, we want your opinion on Football Fever.

The guest blog will be a regular feature, running every Friday on Football Fever.

If this sounds reads like something you want to do, send me an e-mail at sfuchs@scn1.com and we will put you in the rotation.

Football is essentially a conservative sport, from the skepticism that first greeted Bill Walsh's West Coast offense to the secrecy that envelopes any program run by a Bill Belichick or a Nick Saban. Rutgers played Princeton in the first college football game on Nov. 6, 1869, but the forward pass wasn't legalized until 1906.

Today's game looks nothing like what was played that day in New Brunswick, N.J. It was more of a rugby scrum, and more than a decade later Dr. James Naismith would invent basketball at a YMCA in Springfield, Mass.

Today's spread offense has been called "basketball on grass." Access to information has never been greater, and ideas have never moved faster. A pirate-loving graduate of Pepperdine's law school can help change the game's geometry. Who's stopping Mike Leach?

The centerpiece story in our preview section examined how technology has changed high school football. What's the next idea or breakthrough that will shape the game? Here's one crazy suggestion: The A-11 offense.

With the first season opener just four days away, we at Football Fever see no better time to start placing your bets (so to speak) on a couple of season openers:

Naperville North vs. Neuqua Valley and Naperville Central at Waubonsie Valley on Aug. 29.

Let's get right to it. Who will win and why? Ready, type...