A year’s worth of work, covering weight room sessions in the dead of last winter, sweltering 7-on-7 work in the summer and a grueling regular season campaign have led to the end of the road tonight in Chapel Hill as the Clayton Comets compete for the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 7A Football Championship against Grimsley.
Since you just read the world’s longest sentence, you may as well stay and catch up on everything else game day related.
if you’re going
The TL/DR version? Tickets are $20, and parking is $15. And even I’m paying for the latter.
preview stuff
Want to know more about the game itself? You’re in luck.
There’s even a short history lesson on how other county teams have fared in state title game appearances.
a piece of history
Imagine a world in which we wake up tomorrow morning, and Clayton has won a state title. Then, imagine the first of January, when a shiny new Johnston Now Magazine comes out. There are photos and a story from the game, and other businesses and parents have reserved space in what is sure to become a collector’s item.
Don’t get left out. There’s still time to reserve your space.