You meet interesting people at high school football games. When the
game is delayed for two hours because of thunder and lightening you can
really get to know them. At least, that was my experience last Friday
night at South-Doyle High School.
The rain had stopped, but the lightening would not go away. The game
could not resume until thirty minutes after the last lightening strike.
He was standing just outside the door to the home team’s locker room
when I noticed him. Since lightening was still in the area, what better
way to pass the time than talking football? So, the conversation began.
We talked about games that we had played in ourselves that involved
bad weather. I recalled a game that I had played in rain that was just a
degree or two away from turning to sleet. He told me about the time
that he played in a game that started in the rain and finished in the
snow. Between the rain and the snow, there was sleet, and frozen
jerseys. In Michigan, where he played high school football, such
weather was evidently not that uncommon.
