KROX is going to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Crookston Pirate Football winning the 1980 Class A State Football Championship by carrying the game vs Pipestone on Friday, November 27 at 6:00 p.m. You can listen on KROX Radio 1260 AM and 105.7 FM in the Crookston area and 92.1 in Grand Forks/East Grand Forks. You can also listen online by clicking on listen live in the upper right-hand corner. You can listen on the KROX app, or on Alexa (Listen to KROX in Crookston).
In a normal year, the state football championship games would have been played on Friday and Saturday.
1980 State Class A Football Championship – Crookston vs Pipestone. The game was held in Crookston. The half time interview is with Tony Dungy (he was a Gopher Assistant Football Coach at the time and was in Crookston watching the game).