Possum Bowl: A prep football rivalry like few others | Columnists
If youve never heard of Mississippis Possum Bowl, you might want to listen in It started back in 1984. Roe Burns, now a 66-year-old Lincoln County cattle farmer, was a young, energetic head football coach at Loyd Star, near Brookhaven. He was trying to build some football enthusiasm in what was traditionally basketball country.