In my little town, it’s all we got.

Fall Friday nights most of the town meets up at the field, rooting for our high school boys, heckling the referees, watching the girls dance and cheer and listening to our award winning band perform at the half.

Most people that live here went to the high school here. They all talk about how it was when they were there. “We never won a game the whole time I went to school”, “I was the band major when I was in school”, “We won state my senior year”… All of this can be heard just sitting in the stands. (I’m kinda jealous that I can’t really share my experiences…because I didn’t go there).

It’s funny how times have changed and frozen at the same time for them. Homecoming brings past graduates back to the field for the game and to be introduced on the field before the band plays at half time.

It also means that the Princess was nominated by her senior football players to be on the royalty court (again). This time she was able to wear the honored white (reserved for seniors) billowing dress and compete for the coveted Queen title. Someone else got that, but she was just so happy to be on the court and happy that she was a real Princess for the whole day!

Our “Boys of Fall” won their homecoming game making the day pretty perfect!