end of one season, beginning of another

This Darren Gibbins photo in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead this morning caught my eye. I give it a nine for artistic merit. The colors maybe? The sense of flight? Like a deer who has just been shot at?

Number 41 plays for the Yellow Medicine East Sting which is a football hybrid of a public high school and a charter school in Granite Falls. 56572 football fans, including school bus drivers, could be seen checking road maps this week to find out how to get to Granite Falls. Hopes were dashed late Thursday night when our boys lost to a smaller neighbor school. Why mention the name of the Victors? There were seventy-seven points scored in the game. Two defensive coaches drove home from the Arena perplexed.

Revenge for the loss will be meted out in a few weeks time on the hardwood floor of the PRHS gymnasium.