Our small-but-sprawling community is big enough to support two high schools. Strange as it seems, they’d never faced each other in football -- until tonight.The inaugural game of this cross-town rivalry was a special neutral-field affair, played at the major-league soccer stadium up in the big city -- a great venue, for sure, but despite thousands of enthusiastic parents, students and fans, the crowd managed to fill only 20% of the seats.
Next time, those creaky old wooden bleachers will do just fine. Better suited to high-school football, I think.
So did our team win? Well, that depends.
If we're talking about the high school on our side of town, the one just a half-mile up the road from the KintlaLake house, then yes -- and in a rout, 38-7.Thanks to the miracle of open enrollment, however, the KintlaLake spawns attend school across town -- so the truth is that we got our clocks thoroughly cleaned by our bigger, faster and stronger neighbors. We didn't even score until late in the fourth quarter. Sheesh.
Our marching band was better, though, dammit.
