Benton and Bryant ready to kickoff high school football season with 50th Salt Bowl

So enough talking behind her back this week, the F as Salt Bowl will make its return to war Memorial stadium. And preparations have been underway for months tonight. The schools hosting their pep rallies to get everybody excited and faith wittered among them in Bryant, celebrating with the Hornets. Faith what's going on out there? Yeah, guys, I'm so excited to be out here to celebrate the Salt Bowl here at the community pep rally. This is my first Salt ball first community pep rally and I'm excited. Now, if you take a look behind me, you'll see a lot of the cheerleaders and everyone just kind of getting ready and gearing up things kick off in just a few minutes. So we're not fully underway just yet, but you can see all of these supporters and all of these fans out here just trying to pass some of that energy along to the Bryant team. Now, the last time these teams matched up Bryant ended up winning 35 to 6 and last year's win. Put the Hornets ahead of been in the series 25. So we put 24 with two ties. So very excited. A lot of energy out here. But for now, you know, things are not under way just yet, but we'll have more hearing from the head coach in just a few moments. Roll back to you. All right. Faith. Thank you very much. Meanwhile, literally across the street, we find Tyler CASS. He has been working with the Betton Panthers as they are at a car dealer right across I 30. How are the celebrations there on that side of the road? Yeah, that's right. When you say across the street, we mean it very literally, I can see the Bryant flag hanging over there and then the Benton one just to my left and just like on the other side of the line here, the Benton baseball have come out in full force to celebrate the Salt Bowl. Now faith mentioned last year's game and I'm going to say this part quietly snowing around me notices it's actually been nearly two decades since has won the Salt Bowl, but that's the beauty of high school football. It doesn't dampen anyone's enthusiasm. They're still out here in Droves. The band is here. The cheerleaders are here soon enough. The football team is going to be here along with head coach, Brad Harris, who we'll talk to you in just a few minutes for now. Live from Benton. Tyler casts THV 11 sports back to you guys in the studio.

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