Possum Bowl: A prep football rivalry like few others | Columnists

Posted by Martina Birk on Friday, January 26, 2024

If you’ve never heard of Mississippi’s 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.

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