The roster
| Casey Bramlet | QB | Wheatland |
| Corte McGuffey | QB | Riverton |
| DJ Dearcorn | RB | Tongue River |
| Mike Fackrell | RB | Evanston |
| Clint Franklin | RB | Powell |
| Andre McWell | RB | Cheyenne Central |
| Brian Nate | RB | Cokeville |
| Mark Curry | WR | Kelly Walsh |
| Matt Elwood | WR | Powell |
| Jacque Finn | WR | Natrona |
| Marvin Jackson | WR | Cheyenne East |
| Ryan McGuffey | WR | Riverton |
| Kirby Drube | TE | Campbell County |
| Kolby Drube | TE | Campbell County |
| Casey Poppinga | TE | Evanston |
| Dusty Carlson | OL | Campbell County |
| Jon Dawson | OL | Cheyenne Central |
| Jeremy Eardley | OL | Mountain View |
| Cory Fosher | OL | Lusk |
| Garth Hamblin | OL | Rock Springs |
| Derek Rupp | OL | Sheridan |
| Kyle Smith | OL | Torrington |
| Travis Studie | OL | Buffalo |
| Cory Wallace | OL | Campbell County |
| Jon Aimone | DL | Mountain View |
| Dan Godwin | DL | Sheridan |
| Casey Haldeman | DL | Douglas |
| Brett Keisel | DL | Greybull |
| Doug Lytle | DL | Lusk |
| Mike Priest | DL | Natrona |
| JJ Syvrud | DL | Rock Springs |
| Shawn Dowdy | LB | Moorcroft |
| Troy Dumas | LB | Cheyenne East |
| Jacob Hatch | LB | Rocky Mountain |
| Kevin Homer | LB | Natrona |
| Brady Poppinga | LB | Evanston |
| Josh Rollins | LB | Green River |
| Jim Talich | LB | Pine Bluffs |
| Andy Bryant | DB | Laramie |
| Justin Hopkin | DB | Burlington |
| Je’Ney Jackson | DB | Guernsey-Sunrise |
| Jeff Martini | DB | Sheridan |
| Jason Sanderson | DB | Star Valley |
| Gregg Sawyer | DB | Burns |
| Randy Smith | DB | Ten Sleep |
| Lee Vaughn | DB | Cheyenne East |
| Josh Kalinowski | Rover | Natrona |
| Kelly Poppinga | Rover | Evanston |
| Aaron Elling | K | Lander |
| Freddie Capshaw | P | Rock Springs |
| Santino Vialpando | RS | Laramie |
| Ben Phillips | ATH | Sheridan |
| Blaine Phillips | ATH | Sheridan |
Hardest players to leave off the team: Rocky Kirk (Kelly Walsh); Chris Packer and Mike Noseep (Lander); Andy Harold (Torrington); Alan Ista, Brian Mills and Mike Luther (Hulett); Aric Lopez (Campbell County); Casey Adams (Laramie); Ty Barrus (Meeteetse); Kade Ames (Rocky Mountain); Cody Sinclair and Colte Russell (Thermopolis); Matt Mason (Riverton); Barry Wilkinson (Dubois); Kelly Merritt (Star Valley); Isaac Kalinowski, Evan Halchishick and Aaron Levin (Natrona); Mike Johnson and Ben Trautwein (Wheatland); Owen Heck and Dax Michelena (Sheridan); Matt Stock (Cheyenne Central); Zack Zawacki (Powell); Kurtiss Riggs, Anthony Gipson and Chad Goff (Green River); Jeff Kelly (Douglas); Justin Gonzales (Mountain View); Brian Zowada (Lusk); Trevor Moon and Garrett Patik (Buffalo); Michael Booth (Southeast); Chad Mitchell (Cokeville); Grant Curry (Lingle).
Impressions: Man, the 1990s was definitely the decade of the quarterback. I’m not sure if it was just the fact that passing games expanded for the first time, and it drew a lot of attention because of that, or if this just happened to be a great time for developing quarterbacks in the Equality State. Maybe both? … Offensive line average is up to 242 pounds, defensive line is at 220. … Yep, that’s three Poppingas. Brothers. No other all-decade team has more than two players with the same last name. … It’s definitely showing my age (Midwest High School class of 2000, in case you missed it) to say that this was really the first group where I knew (or knew of) a lot of these guys at the time they were playing. That definitely changes a person’s perspective. It’s one thing to read articles from the 1930s; it’s another to have your hand in the grass. That’s part of why the honorable mention list is getting longer. If someone who was 10 years older than me had built these lists, I’m sure the 1980s honorable mentions would have been longer, too. Even so, only one player I actually played football with or against made the final 53, so go figure.
Up next: The 2000s, Saturday.
–patrick
Funny- you and I talked about doing this. I wish I would have strung another year together to be part of this discussion.
Oooh baby! Love your list! Very respectable, One big miss in my opinion was Lance Drake for Sundance. Great all around athlete. All State in all three sports and track and field record holder in the jumos. He put out some huge RB numbers and helped the Bulldogs go deep in the playoffs multiple years.