Get your concession stand popcorn and walking tacos ready.

It’s high school football season.

Here are a few things to keep an eye on while you are munching on goodies and watching high school football this season:

Don’t feed the Gremlins after 7 p.m. — The Karns City locker room looked like a scene from a Ken Burns Civil War documentary with players on crutches with limbs wrapped for much of the season.

Even with all the carnage, Karns City still managed to reach the PIAA Class AA quarterfinals.

This year there are a lot of guys back who played a lot of snaps and the Gremlins are as hungry as Gizmo.

Shuffling Schultheis — Maybe you have heard, Mars has this running back who is pretty good.

His name is Josh Schultheis and he is a beast.

As a sophomore, the 6-foot-1, 220-pound wrecking ball with speed rumbled for more than 1,600 yards and scored 27 touchdowns.

He may be even better this season — providing a young Planets’ line matures. Schultheis, though, just needs a little crack and he’ll do the rest.

Party like it’s 1912 — New Moniteau coach Cecil Blauser isn’t exactly new. He’s been an assistant with the Warriors under three different head coaches.

Now he gets his shot and he’s turning on the way-back machine for his new offense: the double-wing.

It’s not such a crazy idea. Teams have used the attack to change their fortunes before and the Warriors really have nothing to lose after a disappointing 1-8 season in 2012.

The offense gets Blauser’s best athletes on the field and accentuates the team’s strength, which is its skill players.

And it’s going to be wildly entertaining.

Somewhere, Pop Warner is smiling.

Next man up — Ryan Currie ran the Slippery Rock offense to near perfection last season.

He graduated and now Jake Whitmer takes over the Rockets’ wacky flexbone attack.

Whitmer may just take it to the next level.

The junior is athletic, tough and is a capable runner, which is pretty much the job requirement for a quarterback in the flexbone.

But he also has a strong arm and Slippery Rock may hurt people a lot more in the passing game this season.

Get your programs ready — Seneca Valley, Freeport Knoch and Butler have a lot of new faces this season after making playoff appearances in 2012.

Who knows what this season has to offer for these programs?

That, though, is what makes this time of the year exciting.

Anything can happen on a Friday night (and sometimes a Thursday and a Saturday).

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.