mrbananagrabber
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Sept 23, 2018 20:39:07 GMT -5
Or probably just Americans in general.
I’m currently re-watching the superb “Friday Night Lights”, a drama about, or at least around, American football. Specifically, high school football.
So is this really as big a deal as it’s presented here? Like, for anyone who hasn’t seen it, it shows a town in Texas where these high school kids playing football is THE most important thing to everyone. The kids, sixteen year olds mostly, are like rock stars and celebrities, everyone knows who they are, they get huge sell out crowds and TV interviews. It just seems absurd.
So is it really like that for kids playing football?
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Sept 23, 2018 21:25:04 GMT -5
It depends where you live. In West Texas and the South yes HS football star's are like mini celebrities in their specific hometown. Also yes in many small towns with no pro,college or minor league team High school football is king. In certain part's of the country the day the top hs athlete's decide which college they go to it's as big a deal as the NBA or NFL Draft. FNL is pretty realistic in many way's though most of the hs'ers in that show are way too old for their part's .Also the coach in FNL in real life wouldn't be as involved in their players lives because A big name HS coach in Texas would be doing coach duties as much as an NFL coach and not have time for almost anything else outside of that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 21:26:14 GMT -5
In Texas? Oh yeah. If you can, there's a documentary from ESPN called "What Carter Lost". Check it out.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 21:27:09 GMT -5
In the 1980s definitely. Now it’s kind of leveling out, even in Texas to a degree from things that I’ve read.
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Sept 23, 2018 21:28:05 GMT -5
I live in Massachusetts... It means almost nothing.
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Post by S-Chrome on Sept 23, 2018 22:22:16 GMT -5
HS football is big time in the South. Particularly Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and in Florida.
North of the Mason-Dixon line? Not so much. Although there's been more credence to it in recent years here in NYC. Many more local kids here are making their way into highly-touted college football programs nowadays.
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Post by corndog on Sept 23, 2018 22:37:34 GMT -5
I live in Massachusetts... It means almost nothing. Yeah in New England it doesn't mean squat. I live in the midwest, it is a fairly big deal here, but not anywhere close to the what it is in the South. |
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Sept 24, 2018 3:26:48 GMT -5
Or probably just Americans in general. I’m currently re-watching the superb “Friday Night Lights”, a drama about, or at least around, American football. Specifically, high school football. So is this really as big a deal as it’s presented here? Like, for anyone who hasn’t seen it, it shows a town in Texas where these high school kids playing football is THE most important thing to everyone. The kids, sixteen year olds mostly, are like rock stars and celebrities, everyone knows who they are, they get huge sell out crowds and TV interviews. It just seems absurd. So is it really like that for kids playing football? In texas yes, just to give an idea. just how big it is this should give you an idea because there are stadiums for High Schools in Texas, that whole 15,000 or more. Click Here |
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Sept 30, 2018 23:44:44 GMT -5
Read the book, it gives you a better sense of how ingrained football was/is to places like West Texas. There was a fascinating statistic that the high school spent more on athletic tape than the entire English department.
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Post by Cyno on Sept 30, 2018 23:48:30 GMT -5
Here in New Jersey, it's important for a lot of schools, but it's just typical school pride stuff. Nothing even close to the level that it is in the South, especially Texas.
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Post by sfvega on Oct 1, 2018 5:29:40 GMT -5
Yeah, the smaller/more rural the town, the bigger the sport of HS football is in the South and parts of the Midwest. Like Alabama, there's nothing to root for in Bama except the local team and the Tide (or god forbid Auburn.) Some of the bigger cities in Texas it's still kind of a big deal. It's really more of a situation where if there isn't a whole lot to do in the area, the HS team becomes the default most popular activity. And if they're good, or are entrenched in a deep-seeded rivalry, then people get rabid about it.
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