As Super Bowl Looms, Folsom Remembers Facing Off Against Flacco
Clyde Folsom talks about the day when West Deptford football walked away with a victory and Flacco walked away with a South Jersey record.
Quarterback Joe Flacco is preparing to lead the Baltimore Ravens into Super Bowl battle Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers. But long before he was spiraling bombs for Baltimore, Flacco was a South Jersey kid making waves on the football field for Audubon High School. Flacco’s Colonial Conference play brought him to West Deptford a decade ago as a Green Wave player. “He just happened to get hot, stay hot and threw for a record number of yards,” Clyde Folsom, who has coached West Deptford football for 23 years, says of one particularly memorable matchup against the future NFL player. With all the time that has passed, Folsom still remembers when his team went up against Flacco. It was 2002, Flacco’s senior season and a year that would …
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