When the Perrysburg Board of Education dropped the bomb last week — warning that all extracurriculars will be eliminated if another levy fails this November — my first reaction was probably the same as yours.

Yeah, right.

No band? No choir? No theater? No … sports?!

In a town where some 6,000 fans pack Steinecker Stadium on autumn Friday nights — where the Yellow Jackets’ athletic success is such a source of civic pride — I would sooner believe Mr. Freeze taking ice cream off the menu.

It sounded like a hollow scare tactic to make taxpayers flinch.

“I think that’s a natural reaction,” Perrysburg High School athletic director Chuck Jaco said, "because it is so unfathomable to take away athletics from our student-athletes and our community.”

Well, cue the record scratch.

Jaco confirme

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