What started as a coin toss before a high school football game turned into a surprise reunion between a footballer son and his Army dad returning from deployment overseas. Servicemember Fred Grooms Sr. had never watched his son play a high school football game before; this would be a first. It would also be Fred Grooms Jr.’s last game of the season. The freshman player from Helena, Alabama, wasn’t expecting his father to return from Kuwait until the end of October when the young defensive back walked out onto midfield to shake hands with opposing team members, meet the referees, and have the coin toss. So unexpecting was Grooms Jr. that he almost missed his father’s familiar face on the field that day. (Courtesy of Helena High School) Fred Sr. had gone to great lengths to plan the surprise in secret; purchasing a referee’s uniform and planning with game officials, the …