The eleventh month of this shipwreck of a calendar year began on a Sunday, on the following Thursday evening I was back at the stadium for one last autumn event. The Class of 2021 voted to hold a Homecoming King And Queen ceremony, although it couldn't happen at a game as usual the students elected to hold it independently because they felt it an important part of their high school experience. On a personal note I singularly couldn't have cared less about Homecoming when I was in school, I was never a part of anything like that because I was never among the "popular" crowd. When the school's coordinator of student activities called me and asked if I was available to emcee I was more than willing to be there, had it happened under normal conditions I would have been present anyway. The show started at 6:00 with the cheerleaders doing a few of their routines and a performance by the marching band, that was followed by my introduction of the twelve candidates each for King and Queen (in my days there was no such thing as a Homecoming King, each of the Queen candidates had a male escort but they themselves were not in the running for any particular honor). The entire program was livestreamed as the football games had been, we were done about forty-five minutes after we started. Football season itself ended on the 13th, after four straight home games to start the year JPM finished with five straight on the road. The results were no better than they had been at home, the club concluded the season at 0-9 and were outscored 364-55 (that's a game average of 40-6). In 2010 the program went 7-3 and made district playoffs, since then the overall mark is 22-77. Under the circumstances I'm just glad we had a season of any kind, with any luck we'll be able to have a basketball season in the winter. Let Them Play. Take care, thanks for reading.
