Florida Gov. DeSantis, other officials witness football season's greatest comeback

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attended The Naples High School football game in Florida 10 days after Hurricane Ian

NAPLES, FL. — This is a comeback story, but not like ones you’ve come to expect.

This one doesn’t have a breakneck rally by either team or a heroic rise from apparent injury by any player.

Govenor Ron DeSantis attends a football game at Naples High School just 10 days after Hurricane Ian ravaged the area. 

This is deeper than that.

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The Naples High football team played a game Friday night in front of a raucous home crowd at tiny Staver Field.

And that is the amazing comeback because Hurricane Ian unloaded on Southwest Florida only 10 days ago. There was 10 feet of storm surge not far from the school. Winds were so violent some doors in the school came off their hinges.

Despite that disaster Collier County schools reopened Thursday. And Friday night Naples and Barron Collier were on the field as if nothing had happened.

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Except, of course, something terrible did happen.

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"Quite a few players on our football team, members of the [junior ROTC], the band, the people here making this event what it is, they’re living on couches and in RVs or wherever they can find a place," said Naples athletic director Cassie Barone.

"They lost every possession to their name. They showed up here in the same clothes they left in. And they’re all here."

Govenor Ron DeSantis attends a football game at Naples High School just 10 days after Hurricane Ian ravaged the area (Armando Salguero)

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