"I mean, it’s Florida. The rainy season is August and September, and then you mix in the heat in August and it’s like, ‘What are we doing?’"
We again have sloshed our way through that revered rite of August and September, that blissful segment of the school year that teems with pageantry, pep rallies and precipitation.
Friday night lightning. Man, did it ever deliver this time around.
Florida high school football again was sabotaged for six weeks by the state’s volatile late-summer/early-fall weather pattern. As if on cue, late-afternoon storm clouds swept in nearly every Friday, and the state’s most popular prep sport succumbed. Games were delayed, moved to Saturday mornings or Monday evenings, or canceled outright.
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