VENICE — After years of dealing with the likes of St. Thomas Aquinas and Lakeland in its playoff brackets, the Venice High football team was the no-doubt favorite in Class 7A entering the postseason.
It was the famous fabulist of the XVIIth century, Jean de La Fontaine who wrote about taking chestnuts out of a fire. Meaning to save one or thing from impending failure, destruction or failure. That ...