The boys of fall

By Lynette Sowell

I’m dusting off this column for Homecoming week and thinking of a great Texas tradition. On Friday nights throughout Texas, as the sun goes down, the stadium lights glow in hundreds of towns as the local “boys of fall” take to their football fields. I’m a Yankee transplant, so I have to admit I never understood at first what the big deal was about high school football. However, once you start raising kids in a Texas town, it’s hard to avoid the ever-present atmosphere on Friday nights during the fall. Maybe your kid isn’t one of the ones on the field, skidding on the grass, taking helmets and shoulders to the gut. Mine wasn’t. But if you’re not on the team, you can find a role to play under the blazing lights.

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