A small-town high school in Texas so frequently won state championships that its leaders felt compelled to construct a permanent, yet easily storable tent in which students, alumni, and townspeople could gather to celebrate.
Rock was on hand shortly after the school won its classification's 2014 football championship. He stood downhill from the gym and watched as several men and boys dragged out an inflated, olive drab bundle of canvas and rubbery plastic roughly the size of an average mobile home. Rock and another hundred people saw the workers push it down the hill toward them. It bounced like a beachball perhaps a hundred yards before it shuddered to a stop on level ground near Rock. The men and boys walked or jogged down the hill to the large contraption and began to unsnap and untie its bindings.
With one final tug a large tent unfolded, filled with everything anyone would need for a celebration. It contained dozens of long wooden picnic tables, seating for several hundred, and pantries and walk-in refrigerators and freezers stuffed with food and beverages in a huge kitchen that included enough stoves and burners to cook for anyone who came.
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