LUXEMBURG, Wis. (NBC 26) -- This fall, Katie Waege is bringing the noise with a lot more help by her side.
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"It was hard because everyone had on masks and so it was so much quieter," she said. "It should be quite a bit louder this year."
Last season, just Waege and other parents were allowed to sit in the stands at Luxemburg-Casco home football games.
But Friday night, hundreds filled the bleachers once again for the opener against Appleton Xavier.
"I'm excited for them to play in front of their peers and not just their parents like last year," Waege said. "So we're excited that our families, the grandparents, are able to come and aunts and uncles. So for us as a family, that's really important too."
Waege came to see her son, a starter for the Spartans.
"I just am really excited to see football back," she said. "I'm excited for the kids to play and to have that sense of normalcy."
Last season, Scott Lueck didn't even have the chance to attend every Xavier matchup.
"It was just a limited amount, parents," he said. "But then there was a few games where we couldn't even go, no one could. So it was just streamed online."
So Lueck's son, who wears his dad's old number, played some of his junior year in silence.
"There's no fan noise," the former player said. "The parents couldn't be there to watch their sons play. So I felt bad for the kids mainly."
Now for Lueck, a normal season is back just in time. It's his last opportunity to see his son play under the lights.
"It's important," Lueck said. "My son is a senior this year. So to be able to watch his last year in high school and be there live, that's really the only way to enjoy it."
