Fallbrook Pop Warner football season begins despite weather forecast

FALLBROOK – All across America, children and coaches took to grassy fields Aug. 1 to start their mandatory conditioning and preparations for the first games of the 2017 Pop Warner Little Scholars football season.

Countless volunteer hours, parents filling out numerous forms and taking children to physicals, team parents setting up Shutterfly accounts, and snack assignments culminated Aug. 1.

For Fallbrook, a thunderstorm threatened to cancel the first day, but the storm broke in the allotted time, allowing the kids to take to Potter Junior High School fields. President Erik Benitez appeared to...