{"id":2320,"date":"2021-08-22T02:45:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnmorganusa.com\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2024-09-26T03:39:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T07:39:39","slug":"friday-night-lights-shine-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnmorganusa.com\/friday-night-lights-shine-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Lights Shine Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
High school football has returned and in a strange twist, I have as well. Back in the 1980\u2019s (with Journey, Bon Jovi and Cyndi Lauper on the speakers) I spent 7 years in high school. By that, I mean I covered high school football weekly as a young journalist at WJW TV 8, filing stories all over Northeast Ohio and absolutely loving it. I presented so much high school football my photographer Steve Pullen nicknamed me \u201cYour Scholastic Reporter\u201d \u2026which we still chuckle about today.<\/p>
As for the return, I recently joined WGCL CBS 46 in Atlanta as a contributor to their sports department and day two on the job will be being dispatched to this week\u2019s 30th Annual Corky Kell football classic at Mercedes Benz Stadium. It\u2019s really great season-opening football with top 300 teams and others just outside that number. Suddenly I\u2019m \u201cYour Scholastic Reporter\u201d again only this time with websites ranking teams, players and spotlighting major college prospects. What an explosion of coverage making for more information and certainly a more sophisticated high school player.<\/p>