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Without high school football this Thanksgiving, these coaches don’t know what to do with themselves
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The traditions surrounding Thanksgiving football games run deep in Massachusetts, where rivalries, some more than a century old, don’t just fuel bragging rights for the year but make memories for a lifetime.
Yet for all the well-known traditions — the pregame speeches, the late-game rallies, the postgame hugs and handshakes — here’s one you might not know about.
The after-game phone call.
That’s the one that is looking for a certain family member missing from the dinner table, the call that features a refrain heard by every coach who has ever worked a Thanksgiving game.
“When are you coming home?!”
But not this year. And the state's high school football coaches aren't quite sure what to do with the holiday off for the first time they can remember.
Read Tara Sullivan's full column at BostonGlobe.com.
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