Brian Out Loud Archive

If we were looking for a sign that the sports train has gone off the tracks during the COVID-19 pandemic, the wait is over.

Florida State didn’t play a football game for a third consecutive week last week because of COVID issues.

It’s not as if I haven’t seen playoff losses before in football.

Navarre has been through its share of them in the five years I’ve covered the team.

Every memory is still vivid.

Maybe I missed the memo. Maybe I was left off the press release list that was sent out by the Florida High School Athletic Association.

Or maybe I just need to clean out my email because an important one from the FHSAA is buried under the rubble of other emails that include requests for your checking account number so that you can have $100,000 deposited into your bank today.

Michael Carter takes the handoff and starts heading up the field, thinking for a moment about running inside before cutting to the outside and running untouched into the end zone.