Upon Further Review – Homecoming a great night, except on field

Do you ever get that feeling when you wake up and you know it’s going to be a bad day? I had that feeling Friday and unfortunately for Pioneer football fans it turned out to be a bad night as well.

I’m not sure how you would classify Homecoming, I guess it depends on if you’re judging it from the outcome of the game or the number of people that were in attendance.

Friday night’s crowd has been estimated to be around 4,000, as people filled Nunley stadium to watch the Pioneers and Red Raiders clash in region action. But it seemed like the only people doing the clashing were from Coffee County.

Attendance for Warren County’s home games have been very impressive, and it’s understandable considering the Pioneers’ 4-0 start. But for the past three seasons Warren County fans have shown their loyalty and support for the football program with their tailgating parties and caravans to many of the road games.

I don’t know the exact figure, but attendance has been very good for the Pioneers’ four home games. And if 4,000 people attended Friday night’s game, then I would say it’s safe to say an average of 3,000 fans were at the other three games.

From what I understand, attendance money is put into a general athletic fund and is divided between other sports programs. Every little bit helps and some of the not-so-popular programs could use a little financial help every now and then.

Friday night Coffee County fans took a page out of the Pioneer Pride fan guide, by filling the seats early and wearing their school colors. Standing on the field and looking around the confines of Nunley Stadium it was an awesome sight to behold. No matter whose side you were sitting on, it had to give you a rush of adrenaline with all of the excitement in the air.

Unfortunately for the Pioneer football team and their fans, that feeling didn’t last long. By halftime Warren County trailed Coffee County 30-0 and just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, it did.

The senior float had a little trouble making its lap around the track and one Coffee County fan put himself in danger when he tried to run in front of the student section with the Coffee County flag. Not a very bright move on his part. Fortunately no one got hurt and the senior float finally fired up and circled around the south end zone only to stall out in front of the student section.

Now, my youngest daughter is a senior and along with her classmates this group of young men and women worked hard to build a first-place float. But seeing as the float had some mechanical problems, I suspect some type of sabotage may have been committed by one of the other classes.

I don’t know that for sure but all I can say is, at the parade everything was working fine on the Rock-N-Sock float.

Homecoming is a special day for kids at the high school, especially the senior class and it looked like everyone had a good time at the parade and at the game.

The football team now has the big task of pulling things back together and marching down to Tullahoma for a big victory.