THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: The buzz around Coeur d’Alene’s 1985 state football title
Mark Nelke
Shortly after his team won an unlikely state title in 1985, Coeur d’Alene High football coach Jim Clements was asked to describe the Vikings’ wacky '85 football season, which started with five losses in six games, but ended with a state chmpionship.
“Aerodynamically, they say the bumble bee isn’t supposed to be able to fly,” Clements told Coeur d’Alene Press sports writer Gail Wood, after the Vikings beat Meridian 21-14 to capture the state A-1 Division I championship at what was then called the Minidome, in Pocatello. “The thing is, nobody bothered to tell the bumble bee that. That’s the way these kids are. They just continue to do the unexpected.”
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