LAFAYETTE, Ga. – Johnny Cash sang a song about a “Ragged Old Flag.”
Now a few LaFayette High School alumni are focused on saving the ragged old stadium Cash helped build, but finances in the red could take precedence over the Man in Black.
“There’s a lot of potential here,” said Shannon McConnell, a 1986 LaFayette graduate, as he walked along the crumbling concrete steps at the school’s old football stadium Thursday.
McConnell hopes to raise enough money to refurbish the structure one piece at a time, starting with the home stands, locker rooms and concession stands. He hopes the high school can hold its homecoming football game there in 2011.
“The idea is to kind of rebuild it the way it was,” he said. “It’s not really that far of a leap.”