By: Melissa S. Wollering Savor these things: a $4.00 ticket, aluminum bleachers, spirited band geeks, 17-year-old cheerleaders, dads manning the field goal net, a scraggly Panther mascot, a grass field surrounded by a blacktop track and lights…lights…Friday Night Lights. We here at TSB could not go an entire season without paying tribute to one of the greatest amateur … [Read more...] about Sidetracked: High School Football In All Its Glory
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The REAL Most Wonderful Day of The Year
By Paul Schmidt I have a friend who, every year for the last 8 or 9 years, watches Varsity Blues today. More precisely, yesterday, I guess. Why? No, not the Ali Larter whip cream bikini. At least, not entirely because of that. Because he is a sports reporter, and he covers high school football, and it's his ritual before the first high school football game he … [Read more...] about The REAL Most Wonderful Day of The Year