Busy Black Friday for area high school football teams | Sports

Practicing on Thanksgiving Day certainly is not rare for high school football teams.

Since the section moved from the Sequoia, Yosemite and Sierra championships to a five-division format in 1998, at least one area team has played in the Central Section championship, a date that typically falls a day after the celebratory holiday. A sixth division was added in 2008.

This year, local football fans are a tad bit spoiled.

For the first time since 2007, five area teams will be in action on Black Friday. That’s a far cry from . . .