Apparently, reality has set in this year. The same student is enrolled at the same school this year, out for Football again, but in the last game I saw, injured or otherwise wearing a jersey shirt but not fully suited up. In that game, he was wearing shorts, as in the photo last year, but was wearing normal socks.
I am curious if other small-town newspaper reporters and editors have seen these.
On a related, semi-journalistic note? I had two Trump 2020 flags flying from balconies at two units in my apartment complex a year ago. Both stayed up until February or early March this year, when one came down. The other finally did in, I think, April.
That said, the one that came down first has occasionally popped up again for a couple of days at a time. I'm not sure why.