CUSTER — How did Sage Spinner and the many strangers he met this week as part of Team Red for the Montana 6-Man Football All-Star Game break the ice and build some camaraderie early on?
By doing what many others before them have done during a night in a small Montana town — hit up the nearby casino and test their luck on the slots.
Well, some of them did, at least.
“One of the first things that we did when we all got together and introduced each other was we went to the bar and we went gambling,” Spinner, a Richey-Lambert grad, said. “Those of us that were 18; I’m 17, so I didn’t gamble.”
The point is, Team Red kept it loose for much of the leadup to the 27th edition of Big Sky Country’s annual 6-Man All-Star Game on Friday night.
But once kickoff came and the actual play started happening, Team Red did nothing but lay down some punishment.
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Team Red’s Sage Spinner, right, of Richey-Lambert, runs away from Team Blue’s Angus Glennie of Harlowton-Ryegate-Judith Gap during the 2024 Montana 6-Man All-Star Football Game on Friday in Custer. Team Red won 60-24.
Spinner was named Team Red’s offensive MVP off of the back of three rushing touchdowns as his squad ran all over Team Blue in a 60-24 victory, keeping the bragging rights in Red’s hands for the second consecutive year and putting it just one game down of Blue in the all-time series (14-13).
