When I was in high school and one of the sports teams had won enough regular season games to advance to area conference, regional or even state playoff games, the event was marked by a blurb read over the morning announcements at school. Anyone outside the school walls only knew of such achievements by reading the fine print in the sports page of the Palm Beach Post or was directly related to someone on said team. There really was never any great fanfare.
In our small town, team spirit is an all encompassing small town event. When the teams are leaving town, a crowd of well wishers gather on Main Street to honk their horns and shake their pom-poms
while the team and their bus get a siren screaming, light flashing fire truck escort out of town.
After four years of small town living, there are still some things I just have not gotten used to.
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