There is nothing quite like the sights and sounds and smells of
high school football
– especially for the season opener.
Autumn is in the air and so is the excitement as the band fires
up the fight song and the cheerleaders do their routines. Players
from glory days past gather and families and friends get together
in a bond of reunion.
There is nothing quite like the sights and sounds and smells of high school football – especially for the season opener.
Autumn is in the air and so is the excitement as the band fires up the fight song and the cheerleaders do their routines. Players from glory days past gather and families and friends get together in a bond of reunion.
It is also a time for a community and its favorite high school team to rally together for a good cause: To play hard and hopefully win in the true spirit of sportsmanship and athletic competition.
Our sports society today is filled with overpaid professional athletes. Some also fail miserably as role models.
The vast majority, however, can trace their roots – and almost always their current success – back to that underpaid coaching staff that stayed late for extra practice or inspiration.
More important, those who went on to successful lives and careers after strapping on their helmet day after day surely learned key life lessons that helped along the way.
Football is a rough sport, but it sure beats the losing battles of gangs, drugs and so many other foes that our teen-agers must face on a daily basis.
We want to extend a big cheer to the heroes behind the scenes of high school football: The coaches, teachers, school administrators, grounds crew, sponsors, volunteers, the fans of all ages and especially the parents.
The success of any individual player usually started at a young age with a good parent or two.
So here’s to a terrific and injury-free season for the San Benito High School Haybalers. And a rousing cheer as well to all of those students who take the time to play sports or participate in extracurricular activities.
Pssst…the Hollister Free Lance just received a hot tip.
Our hometown Haybalers are going to pull off the huge upset over No. 1 Valley Christian tonight.
