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After offering Swampscott High football star Brian Palangi a full scholarship, Northeastern University head coach Rocky Hager asked him to take a few days and consider it.

Hager understandably wanted to evaluate some other offensive linemen for a scholarship opportunity if Palangi had rejected the Huskies' offer. Palangi understood and didn't feel any pressure in responding to the offer.

Swampscott's Peter Kinchley has led a diversified lifestyle growing up. He's best known as a student-athlete who won a Super Bowl, was a unanimous All-Scholastic football choice and excelled as a pitcher on the Big Blue baseball team as well.

FOXBORO | Swampscott High's football players said all the right things and gave the Medfield Warriors plenty of respect prior to the Division 3 Super Bowl game at Gillette Stadium Saturday.

But once the game started, the Big Blue wouldn't give them the time of day.

The Swampscott football team refused to take anything for granted in the Division 3 Super Bowl today at Gillette Stadium.

The Big Blue didn’t get too comfortable, even when it opened a two-score lead early in the second quarter against a Medfield team that averaged just over 15 points per game this season.

Swampscott High nose tackle Brian Palangi had the rare opportunity to walk on the Gillette Stadium turf in Foxboro on Thursday. Something tells you he'll still be talking about it when he's 75 years old.

Tomorrow, coach Steve Dembowski and Big Blue, the Swampscott High School football team, will be at Gillette Stadium, marching off the same yards that Tom Brady and the New England Patriots have made sacred to the region's football congregation.

3 keys to victory

Swampscott

1. Let the 'D' be the key. Five times this season, Swampscott has limited its opponents to single digits in points, and four other times held them to 13 points or fewer. It's not a coincidence; the Big Blue are a team that thrives on swarming to the ball defensively and gang-tackling before an opposing runner, receiver or quarterback can cause much damage. Swampscott gave up less than 10 points a contest in four November games, and would love nothing more than to force yet another opponent to try and play from behind on Saturday.

When Matt Schairer's family moved out of Medfield just two weeks before the football season started, there probably wasn't a single person affiliated with the Tri-Valley Conference that thought the Warriors could contend for a league title.

ARLINGTON | The misconception that football fans have about the spread offense is that a team is married to the passing game.

But coach Steve Dembowski's Swampscott High team isn't married to anything | except winning. The Big Blue are as resourceful as any team you'd care to name, as they demonstrated again last night against Arlington Catholic in the Division 3 playoffs.

Swampscott's passing game had been nonexistent in the first half of yesterday's Division 3 playoff semifinal against Arlington Catholic.

That was, until the final play of the half.

With two seconds remaining unter intermission and nursing a 6-0 lead, Big Blue senior quarterback Peter Kinchley launched a heave toward the right sideline, where senior wide receiver Justin Mitchell came down with it and galloped into the end zone.