Late night lights: Park kicks off football season with pep rally, midnight practice

For the second-straight year, the Park football team got to work as soon as possible.

Park kicked off the 2012-13 season with a pep rally and “Midnight Madness” practice at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 13 – the opening day of high school football practice across Minnesota – under the lights of Park’s Wolfpack Stadium.

Last year, then first-year head coach Darin Glazier started the tradition of starting the season just after midnight – something similar to NCAA men’s basketball’s Midnight Madness.

Prior to the hour-long season-opening practice, Park hosted a pep rally in the high school gymnasium, with the team, fellow students, fans, parents and the Park marching band and cheerleaders.

See additional photos in the Aug. 15 issue of the Bulletin

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