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'We're playing ball': Here's how high school football in Springfield looked during a pandemic

High school football season unofficially opened Friday night with scrimmages across southwest Missouri and it had a different feel than any Friday night before.

Masks and on-field social distancing were seen at three different scrimmages in Springfield while high school football went on amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here was what we saw in our first glimpse of high school football in southwest Missouri with the regular season kicking off on Aug. 28:

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