It was a Henryetta weekend, replete with good food, good times and some 3-on-3 hoop at the local high school gym, where a pep rally will be held sometime this week for the town's 5-0 football team.

That's right. If you grew up in Henryetta, Okla., graduated from school there or just have some sort of tie to the area, the Hens, er, Knights are 5-0 and ranked No. 12 in Oklahoma's Class 2A.

Not only are the Knights ranked, but they have also demolished every team they've played. They beat Okmulgee 21-6 on the road, and a friend noted that the Bulldogs scored on a fluke. I should note that Okmulgee was ranked No. 12 in Class 4A until last week's 35-7 drubbing at the hands of Poteau.

Henryetta beat Coalgate by 25 or 30, and Coalgate is now ranked No. 14 in Class 2A. Henryetta beat Beggs 37-0, Checotah 44-6 and Haskell 39-6. Oh, yeah, and the Knights played three of its first four games on the road.

Either the Knights are darned good, or we're living in an alternate universe. This is a time when I personally wish they were still called the Hens.

Now, after a little impromptu hoops at the gym on Sunday, we all started talking about how unreal a start this is for Henryetta football. They haven't been this good record-wise since the 1950s, and they weren't close to this good when Troy Aikman was in town.

What came to mind is that a pretty good football team from Prague is coming to town on Friday. If the Knights can get by Prague, and that's definitely an 'if,' they'll be 6-0 and ready to face No. 7 Chandler, the defending Class 2A state champs in what would arguably be the biggest regular-season football game in the history of Henryetta, Okla.

It's human nature maybe to look ahead to next week, but here's to hoping those Henryetta boys keep their head right with ball one more week to show their mettle against the defending champs on Oct. 13.

And, if they stay unbeaten through next Friday night, I'll be in the stands for the first time at Cameron Stadium in 18 years. However, I will not be sporting a letter jacket. That would be ultra gay and damned creepy considering I'm 36 years old.

However, in a town that has never really ever celebrated football success, there is a vibe about the community right now. I was with my brother in the local Movie Gallery video store at the same time head coach Kenny Speer was, and the manager on duty was going on about him keeping up the good work, ribbing him about a free movie or something like that.

It was very reminiscent of the movie "Friday Night Lights," except that the folk from Odessa were used to a consistent winner in Permian. For Henryetta, and if you live there, please feel free to tell me I'm dead wrong, but for the locals living there right now, there is a hint that something very special is in the cards for this football team, part of a program that has never been past the second round of the state playoffs to my knowledge ever, not at least in any modern era.

At the beginning of the football season, I was pretty juiced about the possibility that my Muskogee Roughers could claim a 6A crown. I never dreamed in a million years that I'd say the same about Henryetta, in any class.

Not in a billion.

Road Trip Music:

I always make a new road-trip CD for the drive to Hen-town, which happens about once a month. This is one of my finest yet.

• "Clocks" - Coldplay


• "Movie Star" - Cracker


• "Black Mercedes" - One Block Radius


• "Black Horse & The Cherry Tree" - K.T. Tunstall


• "Somebody That You Used To Know" - Elliott Smith


• "People Who Died" - Jim Carroll


• "Bam Thwok" - The Pixies


• "Trains To Brazil" - Guillemots


• "A Good Idea" - Sugar


• "Lawyers, Guns & Money" - Warren Zevon


• "Marching Bands Of Manhattan" - Death Cab For Cutie


• "Streetcorner Symphony" - Rob Thomas


• "Maneater" - Nelly Furtado


• "Out Of Control" - She Wants Revenge


• "Pain Killer" - Turin Brakes


• "Moving To L.A." - Art Brut


• "Better Days" - Goo Goo Dolls


• "In The Shadows" - The Rasmus


• "Waiting For The World To Change" - John Mayer


• "The Riddle" - Five For Fighting