Instead of being on the sideline during the presentation of colors, both teams, along with Beresford senior parents, unfurled a huge American flag for the anthem.
The Sioux Falls schools won't play a football game until next week, but the O'Gorman Knights will open their turf to two other teams in need of a good field to play on.
I decided to venture down to Beresford, my hometown, and take the kids to the brand spanking new swimming pool there. It was definitely worth the drive.
Jed Olbertson, in cooperation with South Dakota Farm Bureau, is coordinating donations of hay and financial support that will be shared with those in need.
So it snowed. In Sioux Falls we got somewhere between six and seven inches. 30 miles south in my hometown of Beresford they got twice that amount, registering 13 inches.
A friend of mine started taking pictures at 5:30 p.m. with a ruler on his deck and posted them each hour as the snow accumulated...