[Sports] Traditional Pig Bowl football game comes to an end

Pig Bowl: a varsity football tradition where two neighboring rival high schools duke it out every year. A school classic since the school’s inception itself or at least, it was. Pig Bowl was a school classic, where the varsity football team took on their cross-town rivals, Coral Springs High School. It was a special occasion where the losing team’s principal had to kiss a live pig as a punishment for their team’s defeat, hence being named Pig Bowl. While the two rivals still play each other every season, the matchup feels different without the pig present on the sidelines. The players felt disappointed upon the news they would no longer battle Coral Springs to save their principal from smooching a pig. “Rivalry games are very important,” head varsity football coach Christian Baldwin said. “It usually will bring out the best out of student athletes, but you know you have to rise up to the challenge.

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