Prattville to honor winning football team
 

Prattville will ring in the New Year with a celebration honoring the Prattville High School football team's 6A state championship.

A parade through downtown and trophy presentation at Stanley-Jensen Stadium has been set for Thursday, Jan. 4, 2007 beginning at 6 p.m. The Lions defeated the nationally ranked Hoover High School Buccaneers last Saturday at Birmingham's Legion Field, capping off a 15-0 season. The Bucs had won the championship for the last four years.

"We want everyone to come out and show their support for our team and coaches," said Mayor Jim Byard, a 1984 graduate of PHS. Prattville last won the state championship during the 1984 campaign. "We had an impromptu celebration last Saturday night, but we want an official celebration honoring this tremendous accomplishment."

About 3,000 gathered downtown last Saturday night to welcome the victorious Lions home. The festivities included covering anything that wasn't moving on two blocks of Main Street with thousands of rolls of toilet paper.