MHSAA football finals, Ford Field (28 November 2008).
On the Friday after Thanksgiving, I made my first trip to Ford Field for the Michigan high school football finals. (Actually, it was two firsts: I’d never been to Ford Field, and I’d never been to the high school football finals.) The finals featured eight games across two days, but I went for only two games on Friday because I had an interest in two teams: Leslie and Holland Christian. Leslie struggled a bit and lost to Montague, but my day at the stadium had a happy ending when Holland Christian knocked off Detroit Country Day to win a state championship in only the sixth year of the football program’s existence.
The first photo above shows the Holland Christian offense just before it scored another touchdown; the second photo shows a Holland Christian fan taking a picture of the trophy presentation; the third photo shows the postgame traffic in the concourse.
Now all we need to do is get a Holland Christian hockey program going for your nephew and we’ll have Uncle Boo turned into a true Maroon!
Seriously — based on the success of other Maroon sports teams, I think hockey could really thrive at HC; the athletic department at HC is very impressive.
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