Maybe it’s time to trade in the helmets and pads for a fleet of land sailers. In West Texas, a parched football field spells crisis: Robert Lee High School’s typically lush, green field is bone-dry and dusty this year, on account of punishing drought. In a place where football is a religion, locals do all they can to save the sod. Photo: Eddie Ray Roberts, superintendent of the water and waste department in Robert Lee, Texas, walks the dry bed of Lake E.V. Spence on his way to check a water pump. Each day he checks the pump, which feeds a reservoir. Credit: Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press Read more at the Los Angeles Times

Maybe it’s time to trade in the helmets and pads for a fleet of land sailers.

In West Texas, a parched football field spells crisis: Robert Lee High School’s typically lush, green field is bone-dry and dusty this year, on account of punishing drought. In a place where football is a religion, locals do all they can to save the sod.

Photo: Eddie Ray Roberts, superintendent of the water and waste department in Robert Lee, Texas, walks the dry bed of Lake E.V. Spence on his way to check a water pump. Each day he checks the pump, which feeds a reservoir. Credit: Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press

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