Do you like football?  Already feeling the hunger pains after the Superbowl.  Well, Redding has it's own team.

The Shasta Longhorns (http://shastalonghorns.com).

Owner Chris Navarro hopes that bringing semi-professional, or as he calls it, club football to Redding will be a great thing for the community.

Redding has a long history of semi-professional football teams.  For some reason, the community has never really gotten behind it.  Maybe this team will be different.  The team consists of a lot of local football talent.  Mr. Navarro hand picked a team after holding tryouts and inviting many of the Alumni Football Players from last year's Alumni Football games.  In case you didn't know, Shasta beat Enterprise 46-6 one day after the Shasta High School Wolves fell to the Enterprise Hornets in the River Bowl.

Now, almost 5 months later, players from Shasta and Enterprise, along with other Alumni players and local talent, gear up together to take on the Pacific Coast Football League's All-Star Team.

Kickoff will be at 5:00 PM at U-Prep's Gilmore Stadium.  Mr. Navarro will be donating some of the proceeds of this game and others to local high school sports programs.

See http://shastalonghorns.com for more details.

In case you didn't know, Bobba Lou's gave all the sandwich shops an early Christmas present, closing it's doors on December 24th, 2009.  The owners stated that poor economic conditions have forced the close.  For every good month they had, it seemed like they had two bad ones.

I am at a huge loss with Bobba Lou's closing it's doors.  I have to say that I averaged at least one #19 Tony Soprano every other week, if not more.  My wife and I both ate the same sandwich.  Although we tried a few of the other sandwiches, the #19 was the BEST SANDWICH OF ALL TIME!

The staff was always friendly and attentive and they will be missed sorely.

But, wait, there's more........................

A little birdie (Bobba Lou) told me that they are going to try and regroup after the holidays.  They are currently in the process of looking for a location that might be more conducive to a steady flow of patrons.  The Buena Ventura location was always busy from about 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, but that's enough to keep the doors of any business open.  I discussed with them the possibility of going into the old location where the "original" TOGO's was (On Churn Creek in the FoodMax shopping center).  Robert said he like that location and would consider moving anywhere on that side of town.

We at ReviewRedding.com wish the Bobba Lou's crew all the best and pray for a new location in the Churn Creek/Dana Drive area.  We hope to soon announce this new location and will keep you all well informed.