The date was Aug. 22, 2015, the first week of the season in a state that takes its high school football as seriously as its beaches.
Sandalwood, led by quarterback Eli Peters, defeated Carter Bradley and Providence 44-0. All these years later, Peters still reminds Bradley about the whoopin’.
Except the ribbing is now from coach to player.
After a couple of undiagnosed concussions in high school and more during three seasons as Toledo’s quarterback, Peters, with input from family, head athletic trainer Adam Barta, and former UT quarterback Mitch Guidagni, decided that he would end his playing career.