In 1999, Ville Platte, Louisiana resident and sports nut Tim Fontenot longed to do somethingto celebrate this small town’s prep football city championship. Amazed at theharmony between Sacred Heart High and Ville Platte High, two schools that couldnot be further apart racially or socially, "Dr. Tim" wanted to commemorate theteams’ simple ability to get along with each other.What started out as a nice idea and a trophy is now a weeklong communitycelebration complete with zydeco and Cajun concerts, all-day tailgating and anintense prayer banquet for both teams. Also tossed into the Tee Cotton gumboare skydivers, fireworks, collegiate marching bands and anything else Fontenotcan get his hands on to make the annual event bigger and better.Join award-winning sports journalist Mel Le Compte Jr. as he details thestory of one of the premier prep sports events in the nation. This reviseddigital edition of Le Compte’s 2010 paperback, Sharpened Iron: The Tee Cotton Bowl Story, covers not only the game but the journey-from hurricanes to Hakas, federal judges to NFL Films Presents, boucheries to blessings by Pope John Paul II.
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