BIRMINGHAM — As well versed as Vigor is at this state championship thing, nothing could have prepared the Wolves for the water torture they endured Thursday night in the big wash basin known as Protective Stadium.
No. 3-ranked Moody was as unrelenting as the rain, beating No. 2 Vigor 25-0 to inflict the worst loss the Wolves have ever absorbed in a state championship game — and they’ve been in eight of them now, winning four, and the 1988 team is still rightfully regarded as the greatest in state history.
But the way Vigor lost was particularly galling for a prideful program that has long regarded defense as its ace in the hole…