The game became a symbol of more than what Texas high school football already is, mythical Friday night lights that unite communities across the state. They shouldn’t be so crucial, yet are. These games mean something. This specific game more than most.
That killer, who confessed to targeting Mexicans, graduated from Plano Senior High School.Because a few days ago, at around 3 in the afternoon on Labor Day, New Mexico police responded to the report of a drowning at a lake. Four hours later, they recovered the body of a former Eastwood High School player who had earned a scholarship to play football at Western New Mexico University.
“If anybody’s going to cancel a game because they’re scared or worried about more bloodshed, it would be El Paso, certainly not us,” Jennifer Davis said. Plano High alumnus Suzanne Wilson arrives with cut-out hearts before a high school football game against El Paso Eastwood on Sept. 5.And because this specific game matters more now than it did a month ago and even more than it did a few days ago, each Eastwood player has a decal on the front of his helmet, a few inches above the face mask. Quarter-sized with a blue background and in white letters, it reads, “EC 3.” It’s Eddie Cruz’s initials and the number he wore at Eastwood.
When the local evening news began, she watched as helicopters’ cameras showed a home where the killer had lived, near where Ramirez shops. “We might have something that we have to come back from. But we’ve been dealing with that for a month. We’ve been dealing with that at a larger scale for a month.”“You have an opportunity tonight,” coach Lopez says. “An opportunity not just to play for 3, not just to play for our town, and our city, and the victims, and all the people, and all the bad that’s happened in the last month, but you have an opportunity to live your life tonight.
A song, a picture, a smell, a piece of clothing, something mundane reminding you that things will never be the same.
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