Behind The Box Score

It’s a football friday night. It’s not a football friday night in Grove City, Ohio though. If your a student at Central Crossing, Westland, Franklin Heights, and Grove City, you don’t have a game of your own to go to. I’m not going anywhere for a game. I don’t want to go to another game, because I am a Comet till I die. I want to go watch some of my friends that moved schools and play tonight (London HS, who has Ben Rinehart, is playing a game vs. Urbana), but the only football I want to watch is at Central Crossing. There is something inside of me that makes me not go to another game in Central Ohio. I was with this school since it was born in 2002. I can’t get excited enough to go watch another game somewhere else.

I’m gonna use a quote by a non-football player that I used in a previous article, Chris Yanichko, a cross country runner at Alder. “Simple things like homecoming and friday night football games will be gone. The kids that work hard and set goals in their sports will no longer be as motivated.” What Chris has said is very true. The simple things that we take for granted sometimes are gone, and there is nothing for me to fill that void with right now. Zach asked me if I wanted to go to a game tonight, at first I accepted, but on second thought I couldn’t go. Even as Comet football was never the best, it was still something on Friday night you could go and watch, and get away from it all.

A few last thoughts come to my mind as I finish this article. I want the people who voted no on Issue 2 in August hope they know what they really did. They tore away from me watching and writing about Comet sports my senior year, something I had waited on ever since the building opened in 2002. I’m not gonna riot, do crazy things, or do bad things. I’m just gonna sit at home, and write something like this once every four or five weeks.