There is an hour in Texas football that belongs to no one. The buses have unloaded, and the band is tuning somewhere behind the end zone. The lights have been burning long enough that the moths have found them and the grass has started to look like something you could pour. A safety stands at the edge of all that and waits for the world to start. Tonight that safety is Tavon Bolden, and the world is Summer Creek. It is the last regular-season Friday of his senior year at Atascocita, the final night of the schedule before the weather turns and everything starts to count double. In this part of…
Under Friday’s Lights, Tavon Bolden Is Already Thinking About Saturday

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