Being the best is a wonderful feeling. Ask any Oscar winner.

But being the best year-after-year, while exhilarating each time it happens, also comes with that nagging thought in the back of the mind: what if it ends?

After 67 consecutive wins, that happened to the Bellevue High School football team in last Friday’s state 3A championship team. The Wolverines lost 35-13 to Eastside Catholic.

While we’re sure that was heartbreaking, it doesn’t take away that for for the past six years, Bellevue had won the state 3A football championship. The last two years, it had defeated Eastside Catholic for the title.

And what of next year’s team?

It can be the first to begin Bellevue’s new football dynasty.

— Craig Groshart, Bellevue Reporter