They filled the home side of the stadium because it was the place to be, people young and old squeezing in.
But this was not normal. There was no music. There was no band, no cheerleaders, no food trucks and no celebration to cheer on a football team, a ritual on fall nights at Casa Roble High School. This was instead a wake on Monday night. The crowd was a sea of sadness. Orangevale was saying goodbye to one of its own.
A Casa Roble senior football lineman named Julian Snyder, the gregarious kid in class and in the quad with dreams of becoming a fireman, was killed late Saturday night in an automobile accident, just over 24 hours after the Rams’ season ended in a CIF playoff game in El Dorado County. Snyder was 17…