“2018 – Welcome to the Grind.” With that simple mantra the Dawson County High School Tigers are back for another season. With the school year already underway, the excitement of football has begun to show up everywhere. Conversations in grocery stores, offices and living rooms begin to reference Friday nights. Whether it’s a comment on the possibility of a championship this year, or what the games do to traffic, it seems like football becomes the talk of the town. “It’s game week,” Coach Bradley Fowler shouts during an August 3 practice. “Game day is coming.”