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Hurricane Season: High School Football Team
Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina Hurricane Katrina was a big deal in Louisiana but it didn’t brother John Curtis’s high school football team during the 2005-06 season. In this novel by Neal Thompson, Hurricane Season, Neal Thompson tells us about how Hurricane Katrina destroyed Louisiana, but John Curtis’s football team were full of dumb mistakes. The head coach of the Patriots was J.T. Curtis and the high school players were preparing themselves for the football season. J.T. Curtis was expecting to be ready for this football season, they pulled off their preseason win, but the game was full of mistakes. J.T. Curtis and the football team was done with their last preseason game and be ready to capture

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