When Austin Parker visited the trainers to get his ribs iced, East Hall football coach Bryan Gray would pack his quarterback’s equipment on a cart and sent it back to the locker room. Parker had suffered a rib injury while weightlifting in late August and tried to play through it that weekend against Chestatee. A bye week awaited the Vikings before their next game against Johnson, giving the junior signal-caller extra time to rest an injury that severely hindered his throwing motion.