High school football is a celebration, a work in progress with teenagers and coaches on full display on fall Friday nights. And it is a sport that has endured.

It takes a unique dedication to crash into other bodies in shoulder pads and helmets, and to engage in drills in 100-degree heat or in a stuffy weight room where the smell is of sweat and commitment.

Football can raise the spirit of a campus and sometimes a community throughout the greater Sacramento region. The curiosity and interest hasn’t waned over the decades amid booming housing growth in Elk Grove, Placer County and up the Highway 50 corridor, stretching from Folsom to El Dorado Hills. The football craving for the player, the coach and the consumer hasn’t stalled a bit.

A school doesn’t have to field a state-ranked team to

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