A flock of the Signal Mountain Eagles football team spent a chunk of Friday morning showing all of us what can be great about high school sports.
Sure, the Eagles rolled Friday night at home, using five first-half touchdown passes from Tom Vatter to beat McMinn County 49-7 in a Region 3-3A game and clinch a spot in the state playoffs in Josh Roberts’ first season as coach. Those were grand achievements for the team and its goals.
Friday morning, though, the Eagles were good on a grander scale.
“It really surprised me how much they knew about our team, what our record was. That was pretty cool,” Vatter said of the visit he and many of his teammates took to Alexian Village, a Signal Mountain life care retirement community. “Some of them had grandkids that go to school here and some just have lived here their whole lives, but to be able to make their day better was pretty awesome.”
Vatter and his first-team offense were pretty awesome Friday night. The starters played into the first series of the second quarter, getting six touchdowns and a field goal on their eight drives.