friday night lights

most people would never peg me as a football fan. that's because i'm a different breed of fanatic. i hated highschool, mine in particular, but i loved fridays in the fall. something in the air. i can feel it run like pure current through the marrow of my bones, out through the hair on my neck and arms. we've got a shot this time. tonight, my second homecoming as an alumni, and it was a hell of a night. worth the ride home and then some. that being said, let me further explain.


the air tonight is that perfect kind of mix between gently frosted and scorchingly full of competitive fire. in short, it's a football night. where i come from this isn't a sport, it's a religion and a way of life. God himself watches EBA football. the crushing sound of bodies and shoulderpads colliding with all the forces of hell or heaven and even the archangels rings on even after we've left the field. and tonight when the smoke died and the blood left the air, there stood the mighty Spartans in a sea of battered Red and White, victors of the fray. Hail Alma Mater indeed! It's a banner year for Big Red. Fast on the way to a massive arising that is known to the GISA as Region Championship. May we shower fire over Trinity and bring that deciding game into OUR HOUSE. should we make it that far we will be not only Region Champions but also the Number One ranking team in this great state we call Georgia. And I will be at that State game, and we will make history I swear it.


For all the boys in red tonight, "not every man is worthy to wear the Spartan uniform." You are the few and the proud. You're bloody, you're worn. You are the pride of an entire world tonight. You played the hell out of football. I'll see you all at State.



Go Big Red.