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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Head Coach
Join Date: Jul 2001
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Go Cubs
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Were they in the World Bowl?
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College Starter
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Burlington, VT USA
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Shows you how little Aliens know.
Go Red Sox |
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College Starter
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Somerville, MA
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foolish aliens
go Red Sox |
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Roster Filler
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Cicero
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I agree Kodos. It is now time to start counting days till training camp.
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Seattle WA
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There is always canandian football which kicks off this weekend if I am not mistaken
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Seattle WA
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Of course I will keep following the Mariners
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Calgary
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The CFL starts tomorrow...
The NHL draft is on Saturday... |
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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Silly Alien... watch some baseball!
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Seattle WA
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Also, isn't the Arena Bowl next week?
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Banned
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Placerville, CA
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Did you think it WASN'T boring when the NBA finals were on?
![]() I follow horse racing when football season is over. Seriously. You stat-freaks should give it a try if you haven't already. |
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Stats only matter if you give a rats ass about the sport.
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Neptune Beach, Florida
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Is it just me or wouldn't the CFL be more exciting if it was played in the Dead of Winter?
"We got ourselves a -45 Degree Wind Chill up 'eer in Edmonton for this 'eer matchup between the Eskimos and the B.C. Lions. Yaaah. You Betcha." By the way, T-Minus Two and a Half Months until the College Football Season Begins!! YES!!!! ..and speaking of College Football, can someone please explain to me how ESPN decided to start their season with a matchup between Grambling and San Jose State? This isn't a joke by the way.. YIKES!
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: The Mad City, WI
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Golf.
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Mascot
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Well in 5 days you have Lewis vs Klitschko. Although if it wasn't free on HBO I wouldn't be watching it as heavyweight boxing is like professional wrestling right now, a joke.
It is summer though, time to play your own sports. |
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Go Reds
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Bloodbuzz Ohio
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Go Red Legs
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Roster Filler
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Cicero
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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That's why I said watch baseball, heathen
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Resident Alien
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Baseball: America's sleep aid!
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Iowa City, IA
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We have the ZFL going down in the dynasty forums, what more could you need
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Cinn City
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Don't worry. I believe the NHL reports for training camp in 3 weeks. The NBA in 5 weeks.
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Here
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MLS
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Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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Ummmm even if you don't like baseball, there is GREAT excitement going on with high school football!
Summer Camps--Recruits-to-be are at camps all over the land during these weeks, showcasing their wares Rumors--This is THE BEST time for rumors and conjecture regarding which kids are going to be ranked where when the full-fledged recruting starts in the fall. Offers--This is the time of year when they start to begin pouring in. My boy Thomas Brown (of "that boy run so good, it make your DICK hard" fame) has 18 offers. It is exciting to begin to see where kids stack up. It was also a thrill to get word a few weeks ago that another Tucker Tiger, DE Brandon Lang, got an offer from FSU. Rankings--Rivals has lengthened their eventual "Top 100" list to 35 names now. Videos--Yet another Darius Walker video went up just this morning on Rivals.com. That kid looks VERY impressive as well. Commentary--"Some are saying that he's better than the J-Train..." was by Thomas' name yesterday. (For the record, I agree wholeheartedly.) I enjoy this time even more than the signing period.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maryland
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Ahh, time to focus on baseball full-time. Oh wait, I did that in April.
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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Offical Fun Sports Stuff Remaining:
NBA Draft Neuhisel and his Entourage of Afficianados Big East becomes Big Least Continued NFL signings (Most recent of note - JJ Stokes to the Jags for a one year contract. In the past few years, the Jags have signed the following receiver to one year deals - Sean Dawkins, Patrick Johnson, Darnay Scott, Bobby Shaw, Derrick Mayes - what makes them think JJ Stokes is different?) NBA Coaching Carusel Continues - Where will Rick Land? Tiger scrubbed out of a Masters! Golf is doomed. Summer doldrums assault Football Players who then cause mischief. Annual "Football Players are Thugs" articles create laughter. Fantasy Football Season analysis in full swing any day now. Soccer (er...Football, or Futbol) offseason results in very interesting changes to roster in clubs around Europe. Qualifying games for national teams in Futbol for Euro 2004. Qualifying round draws for several Euro competitions on June 20th. Wimbledon. US Open. -Anxiety
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Calgary
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Well, the Grey Cup is held in November and when it was held in Winterpeg, they had to de-ice the field. It proved to be a daunting task and they ended up playing on a 90 yard field (as opposed to the regular CFL 110 yard field). |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester, CT
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Did somebody actually say high school football?
That is about as interesting as turtle races at the annual backwoods fair.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester, CT
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It is surely a southern thing then.
I think our high school once got 250 people to show up for a game. We were even state champions that season too, and had a player signed to go to Clemson to start as QB, although he later opted to go into the MLB draft.
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkley, MI: The Hotbed of FOFC!
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I think one thing that may be is that high school football is, in general, WAAAAAAAY more popular in the south than it is in the north. Not saying this is a bad thing, as I really enjoy watching it, but the hardcore support is much stronger in the south for it. EDIT: What Marmel said, basically. Last edited by ice4277 : 06-17-2003 at 02:37 PM. |
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Cinn City
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There are exceptions. Ohio and Pennsylvania to be specific. |
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Berkley, MI: The Hotbed of FOFC!
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Very true, as I know of a couple areas in Michigan that can at times be like this; by and large, though, its a lot bigger in the South. |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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We usually dress 50-60 kids for the game, and then there are 25ish cheerleaders and 120ish band members, so we're talking about 200 kids involved in the program itself to start with. Just about every player, cheerleader and band member has at LEAST one parent at every single game, and most have 2 parents there, so that's 250-400 people as your baseline right there. A few other snippets...
Would weather have something to do with the lower support also? I know for our first 4-5 games of the year, it is usually still warm enough at night to wear shorts and a short-sleeved shirt to games, and I only had to break out the long johns and heavy jacket once all season long (playoff game in December). I have video footage from high school of the day we won our first Region Championship. It was the day after Thanksgiving, and I was wearing jeans and a short-sleeved shirt.
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Catonsville, MD
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All of Applachia. West Virginia, for example. In rural WV, I can remember my dad getting us in for free because he said the opening prayer for the home games of Sherman High. Collecting those plastic Sherman cups, never catching those plastic footballs that the cheerleaders would throw into the stands during halftime - except for the last time I went - then I finally caught one of the golden plastic Sherman High Footballs. We discovered my eyesight was poor during a game by looking at the scoreboard. Ah, good times. And no, none of our players would play college ball. But the community loved it. -Anxiety
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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I had talked about Southern prep football before and also experienced that phenomenon first hand in travels through Alabama and Texas particularly. In some of those regions, prep football is much bigger than even college football in other regions, esp. in the West. Now I fully understand the psychotic obsessiveness of collegiate alumnis and administrators - it starts early and there is no better training ground than Southern prep football. That is a good thing, right?
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Neptune Beach, Florida
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You aren't kidding SkyDog.. Shoot, you can go to pretty much any Jax Area HS Game on any given Friday Evening and find yourself watching about 10 or so future D-I Football Players. And that's not including guys that end up heading onto the Lower Divisions of College Football. It's unbeliveable.
Where I grew up in Minnesota, we'd be lucky to have 2 or 3 guys in a given year who would go on to play College Football anywhere at all. And the Crowds and Atmosphere? No comparison whatsoever. The South is truly the HOME of High School and College Football.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester, CT
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I doubt weather has much to do with it.
Actually, I did forget about the Thanksgiving game. That usually draws a pretty large crowd. Mostly college students coming home and getting together to see their friends. The football game is just a reason to get together though. It is secondary. I just don't think the game is as popular up north as it is down south, for the most part. Even northern colleges have a much harder time recruiting and competing at the national level. (Northern as in Northeast). The pro-game is wildly popular up here though.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Greensboro, NC
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Dola--
But back to the original point, it isn't so much high school football this time of year, but "pre-recruiting" season that gets me pumped. (Now, come late August though, my Friday nights will all be spent watching them Tucker Tigers roar. The only exception will be the off-week, which is when I planned a whitewater rafting trip. And yes, of COURSE youth ministers consult the football schedule before planning trips. I wouldn't DREAM of trying to plan a trip on the weekend of the Tucker-Marist game.)
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Somerville, MA
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up here we have one of the longest running rivalries in the country. Stonington High and Westerly (R.I.) High play each Thanksgiving and usually draws something like 5000-8000ish people. I'd have to dig up the records to find out how much we're winning the series by, but the two teams have played 142 times since 1911 interestingly enough, just down the road New London and Norwich have also played 142 times, but that one dates back to 1875! ![]() and the next closest is 130-somthing games |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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I'll give it a shot. The pro football game was a Great Lakes region creation and pro leagues were started from Northeastern/Midwestern cities. The South lost out on that initially (too poor and ahem, backwords) but instead, had the colleges and the preps take up the slack. The NFL/pro teams did not enter the Southern market (I believe) until 1960 with the Texans. Atlanta, Miami and New Orleans all came later. |
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College Starter
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Burlington, VT USA
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Why is HS football so ignored here in New England? It's poorly played and poorly coached.
You have pockets where it's life and death, ask ScottVib. Where we went to college, that's what there was to do. The big game between Lyndon Institute and Saint Johnsbury Academy was front page news all week, even dumping the Unification of Germany to page 2. A lot of high schools up here just don't play it, focusing more on soccer which is cheaper and less field maintainence, along with boys and girls field teams. |
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Resident Curmudgeon
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Plus academics are more important in New England too.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester, CT
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I have no idea. Some of the above suggestions seem like good ones.
Also, just taking a wild stab in the dark. With more urban cities up north, it is not easy to get a pickup game of football going as it is basketball. As New York goes, much of the northeast goes.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Decatur, GA
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Good analysis! I always wondered why Southern football fans weren't that high on the pros. I mean until Mike Vick came to Atlanta, the attendance at Falcons games was nothing special at all.
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Manchester, CT
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This is a good answer, but why is it so poor up north?
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Palo Alto, CA
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When football isnt around everything seems boring.
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: The Mad City, WI
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I haven't cared about anything related to H.S. since the day I graduated.
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