I graduated high school on May 11, 2012, and what a time that was to be a Wayne County War Eagle. We’d just welcomed a new head football coach to the family, with anticipation building by the day for the grand reopening of an expanded War Eagle Stadium in August.
And it wasn’t the result of any whispers from a cornfield, telling a young and ambitious Kevin Costner, “If you build it, they will come.” No, they were already coming. Thousands of seats were added to a venue at which the phrase “maximum capacity” had been taken as a challenge rather than a limit for more than a decade. Football fans in Waynesboro, along with many others, took pride in packing that stadium with each and every opportunity to celebrate a War Eagle football program that was once described in a few large publications as a “cultural phenomenon” that embodied everything we loved about our hometown.
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