America's Game Night

America’s Game Night

It was the very next Friday night after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York. Two days after the Deer Valley School District decided not to postpone week two of our high school football schedule for mourning purposes for the September 11th victims. "Live your life like it didn’t happen but do not forget it" and "don’t let terrorism run your life" are what people are saying. Even though there is a sense of national security nervousness in every ones minds.

Before the game my coach, Mike Waters, gets our team together on a knee and says things will be different now and that is the way it is. Coach Waters had been our coach for fours years and has been very influential in our team. He also says that we need to just go out and for at least 3 hours take the stress and nervousness off of people thinking about what our country is going through. So for Friday night on September 14, 2001, we head out to our home field at Barry Gold...