Saturday’s Spirit Game lets us see how it used to be ‘back in the day’

Back in “the day,” that magical time when it seems so many things were so much better, cleaner and real, filling the basketball gym on a Friday night was as automatic as students battling back and forth with the classic cheer: “We have spirit, yes we do, we have spirit, how about you?”

To get the same electricity that once was just in the air in schools it takes more than just racking up the W’s.

Now, that spirit and passion that was once just part of the fabric of a community has to be infused, made part of the calendar and planned in advance.

The culmination of months of planning takes place...