Brick City Bowl: No trophy presentation

This Friday, Lee County High School and Southern Lee High School will meet on the football field for the second time ever, and they’ll be playing for not only a win, but the “Brick City Bowl” trophy that comes with it.
The trophy — given to Lee County High School last year — was the idea of The Herald, and last year, we were not allowed to present the trophy to the winner following the game because of safety concerns (I’m not real sure of the reasoning either).
This year, our sports department has asked Lee County High School if we could present the trophy to the winning team following the game (since it’s being played at LCHS this year), and once again … we’ve been turned down. According to my sports writer, there are concerns over traffic after the game …
What?
I’m disappointed that for the second year in a row, we’ve not been allowed to do this. In our paper this week, we’ve treated this game as more than a football game, it’s something that’s getting this city excited. Forever, this has been a one-city school … and now that there are two high schools, there are opportunities for fun rivalries, new traditions and more.
We feel like this trophy can be a tradition, but the schools aren’t seeing it that way — for whatever reason.
Sure, presenting the trophy after a football game isn’t the most important thing in the world. I will say our intention with this is NOT to divide the community, or cause jealousy (which I’ve heard was a concern last year).
This is all about having fun — that’s it. Our paper is celebrating this week because this community has something positive to buzz about.
We hope the schools change their mind about allowing a post game presentation. This could be the only trophy either team has a chance to “hoist” this year … we’re going to not allow it for the sake of avoiding a traffic jam?

Scientific reasoning

Thanks to my mom for this.