Friendly fun precedes the IHSA football championships
By Christine Des Garennes
Saturday November 29, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
Tiarra Black and William Black joust Friday afternoon in the entertainment tent at the IHSA football championships at Memorial Stadium in Champaign.
CHAMPAIGN – As the music of heavily teased big-hair rock bands of the 1980s provided pre-game, adrenaline-pumping entertainment (think Bon Jovi's "You give love a bad name"), Robert Simmons prodded hot dogs and flipped pork burgers.
By 10 a.m., the shrimp was blackened and the "Iron Horse Cooking Club" from Casey was ready to start dishing out food for the throngs of football fans expected to start arriving throughout Friday morning.
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