Senior night will be observed at 6:40 p.m. Friday before the 7 p.m. kickoff between Tonkawa and Woodland. Parents of senior footballers, band, cross country and cheerleaders will be honored. Following is a statement from an unknown author concerning Senior Night: “Most people, even parents, don’t really understand what it means when a senior football player’s season ends. They don’t understand the true finality of it for 95% of these kids. You can play baseball/softball in rec leagues forever. You can always play a game of pick-up basketball. You can play golf and tennis as much as you want when you get older. You can run track and enter 5k or marathons till you die. But most high school football players will never ever put on a helmet and play the same game again. You go from being and totally and completely immersed in a game you love to being totally and completely shut out from it. That is incredibly difficult.Football is not a lifetime sport...but high school football IS a once in a lifetime experience.”
