Reunion.
My **th high school reunion is this weekend. No, I’m not telling you how many years it’s been, but I will give you a clue:
Rocky River High School beat Avon High tonight by a score of 42-7. When I was a student at RRHS, that score was usually reversed — every week.
After conversing with a couple of my fellow grads tonight, we determined that our varsity football team won all of three games while we attended RRHS. One year, we scored a total of 5 points.
Yep: 5 points. Count ‘em. 5.
I can remember one night, playing either Avon or Avon Lake, having lost every game that year so far — by shutout (it may have been that year I quote) — that our team was down 49-0 with scant time remaining in the 4th quarter, and we scored a field goal — which sent everyone on our side into a frenzy.
When folks from the other side asked about it, we told them that we were cheering because we actually *scored*.
So River beat Avon tonight, 42-7. It was 28-0 at halftime.
I felt like I was watching my other alma mater, The Ohio State University Buckeye Football Team (and, yes, the capitalization is quite correct), only the colors were a little weird…
Seeing a whole bunch of old friends at the game: priceless.
We’re meeting again tomorrow — much more officially. I’ll let you know how it goes.
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