British Soccer Fan First Time Reaction to The BEST High School Football Stadiums in America INSANE
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Basically Friday night high school football is a social event in many towns, adults who don't even have kids attending the school go.
Many go just for half time. =)
Which is creepy af
@Jason Biggs Oh no! Local adults wanna watch and support their local school's football team!
@@Unknown-hb3id it’s creepy af to have adults watch kids who the have no connection too. Don’t act like it’s not.
@@KalEL224 It's literally their local community. It's like having neighbors come and watch your sports games. Even if they don't know you, they likely have gone to the school and still support the school, including sports. That's how a lot of local communities are, and I'm sorry if you don't understand that.
High school football in Texas is almost a Religion!
Almost???? I think they are well passed that point lol
Almost?
If there was a vote in Texas to get rid of football or all organized religion the results will be every priest, rabbi, preacher, monk, nun, bishop, deacon, imam, Sunday school teacher and archbishop would be out of a job.
I grew up in Texas I can confirm high school football is absolutely nuts Friday nights our stadium was Defining especially during the playoffs it's everything they show in the movies and then some
Dude. It’s pretty much a religion in the SOUTH!!!
high school is grades 9-12 at least near me, and is usually ages 14-18ish
the grades can vary, i’ve heard of people having only grades 10-12 in high school
@@AndrewL209 Most High Schools are 14-18. Very few do only 3 year format. Very, very few.
@@AndrewL209 yeah my High School was 10-12
I started highschool at 13 and ended at 17
@@80sGamerLady that's 3 years
I teach in Allen,Texas ( the last one on the list and the saying here goes God, family and football. Our pep rallies are insane to say the least!
When I graduated they had moved the championship games to the old Texas stadium but we were still playing city championship game in the astrodome and drawing crowds I can imagine there at your school those pep rallies are insane
Maestra/Teacher, kudos to one of your/Allen's favorite sons Kyler Murray who went 43-0 and won 3 Texas state crowns in a row as the QB and then was the Heisman winner at OU. Subsequently made history as the first ever 1st round pick in both MLB and NFL - 1st overall pick. In NFL he was the rookie of the year and then made all-pro in the 2nd year and this year is the MVP candidate w/ best record in the NFL! p.s. and that football stadium at Allen High is off the chains ... Texas football rocks! Oh, btw, Theo Weiss, who is from Allen and currently plays at OU, is that future NFL material. he is in injured reserve but he balled-out last year at OU. Thank you and keep sending those good players our way. Boomer!
Yep I went to R.L. Turner & of course that’s even a decent size Stadium for the Carrollton Schools!!
When you live in a sparsely populated area, or there aren't any big teams nearby, high school sports may be the best option to scratch your live sports itch. Living in a town of 10,000 or less, high school sporting events are oftentimes THE thing going on in town.
So true. Our whole tri-county area had one small school. It a field with no bleachers but it was at the bottom of a hill so every Friday everyone would be on that hill even if they didn't care about the game.
I live in a city of 120,000 and this is the same for us. We don't have any major league teams so high school football and wrestling events are really popular here.
I discovered how passionate Texans were when I spent some time in Lancaster TX just south of Dallas. The HS stadium has a capacity of 9500 or so. Within 5 miles there is another high school stadium of nearly 15000. Thats some passion right there
I grew up in a small farming town, but every Friday night in the fall the stadium would fill up to watch the games. I'm guessing it only seated 2000 people, but that isn't bad for a team that didn't win a game for three and a half years! They still were packed!
And definitely check out Friday Night Lights the TV show. Its my favorite all time show.
The show was filmed in Pflugerville, TX at their public high school. I lived a mile away.
Good book, good movie, good show.
But is based on Odessa-Permian in Odessa, TX. That school plays at Ratliff Stadium, capacity 19,000 and was built in 1982
In Texas a lot of those stadiums do sell out or get close
In fact in Texas they play the state championship is played in a NFL stadium
In Louisiana all the state championship football games are played in the Superdome
College stadiums are bigger than NFL stadiums
@@HBC423 Texas holds their state championship games at cowboys stadium because it’s indoors and the championships are in December
I live about 20 minutes from the #1 stadium in Allen, Tx. $60 million facility. Up the road, Mckinney is in the process of building a $70 million facility. Texas loves it's high school football!
Lets not forget Prosper’s new “cheap” 40 million stadium
The Canton-McKinley versus Massillon high school football games is a major rivalry and one of the most anticipated sporting events every year in Ohio. Crowds of over 20,000 are common for the game.
The one in Canton Ohio is an odd case of being associated with the NFL due to it being founded there, along with maintaining their Hall of Fame museum there, and the NFL plays an annual game there for nearing half a century
Recruiting athletes to play for universities starts in high school. Full scholarships rides and playing for a specific university is very prestigious and can give a family a leg up on free higher education. So athletics is super important in _some_ families and communities for that reason.
Parents of football players even have their kids redo a year even though they passed easily just so they will have another year to build up their muscles... If necessary, two years. College scholarships are at stake...
@@ronclark9724 yep my friend did that. He was a no name before his senior year but he ended up going D1 to OU (Ohio University)
that is why Kyler Murray transferred to Allen High ... those impressive stadiums do matter in getting that extra attention from D1 schools .... as was mentioned, Allen currently has 7 players on the NFL roster!
Friday Night Lights, Remember The Titans and Varsity Blues are 3 really good movies about what high school football can be like in America
1963, Lee played Brackenridge for the San Antonio city championship - Alamo Stadium (built by the WPA during the Great Depression) held over 22,000 fans (not counting SRO) and was televised. Sixty years ago (and earlier), football was a religion in Texas. It still is.
Texas is different when it comes to high school football. Ohio California and Florida are too but Texas might as well be college
Yeah it’s weird. We don’t give a shit about it in Tennessee
Sports is taken very seriously here, and there are some impressive high school baseball fields also, though nowhere near as big as these football stadiums.
High school is before college from ages 14-18 ish
Look up McKinney ISD and Katy ISD football fields. Both high school districts in TX
I have a friend who drives busses for Katy ISD
Yeah....way to go McKinney spending $12M more on a ($72M) stadium that only seats 12,000 and doesn't even architecturally compare to Allen Field. The Katy Stadium is horrible looking too. Makes you wonder who is on these school boards to approve crappy projects like these. Maybe they used friends and family businesses to funnel the projects costs through?
@@Swordsfor200Alex a lot of those projects aren’t just football stadiums. For example I think legacy stadium has an entire sports complex attached
@@jakefitch6877 Yep - I officiate football in Texas and have been to 2 of these complexes. None of them are stadiums only. They all have classrooms/training facilities/offices all built in them as well. The Allen Eagle stadium is head and shoulders above these other’s that came after it. They spent more $$$ and got less in return. Granted the Eagle stadium had construction flaws with bad batch of concrete that cracked after the first year. But that was a materials defect and covered by insurance so repaired with no additional charges to ISD.
Hey, football period is no joke in the US of A. It doesn’t matter what age you are!!
Friday Night Lights - it a movie about highschool FB in TX based on a true story.
Staring Billy Bob Thornton as the coach. It shows the good, the bad & the ugly of HS FB in America.
Billy Bob's speech during half time is one of my favorite movie scenes ever!
My high school. We won the State and National Championship my senior year (of course National is just a title given by places like ESPN, USA Today, etc.). My brother was a captain and they went to the State Championship game. (Lost) We also won the National Championship the year after the year in Friday Night Lights. My dad filmed the games for 30+ years for the coaches. Odessa Permian High School! MOJO!
Having grown up there, I don’t think the book “lied” but I describe like this… if you say you are describing a mountain, then go on and describe a dark, damp scary place with mold and mildew everywhere and a bear curled up deep inside… you may have told the truth about about one small part of that mountain (one cave), but you basically lied by omission when you focus on one part to paint an incomplete, untrue picture if the truth. He basically did what writers do.
Great movie. I've always loved that ending and that dark subplot with the one kid's dad. To me, it's less a sports movie and more an exploration of small town football culture, the good and bad.
@@G-grandma_Army My ex-wife grew up in Odessa and attended Permian in the late 70s, so she grew up in the Friday Night Lights era.
As others have said, high school football games are often a community event. Most games being on a Friday night (games usually start 19:00-20:00 where I am), allows most people to attend. Lots of kids playing in middle & elementary school attend to watch their brothers & the older guys play; some of the older ones may serve as water or ball boys for the varsity team. In addition to the game itself, there's usually cheerleading & marching bands from both sides, so a lot of kids involved. Figure the parents, family, & friends of these kids, and that's a lot of people even without the broader community. That's why even in smaller communities you can easily get several hundred, if not a couple thousand, people at a game.
Former band geek here! I used love it when we played on Allen field! It was such a good field to march on
This is one thing that made me sad i didnt grow up in texas. I was stationed at ft. Hood in central texas for 3 years, and i quickly found out they DONT PLAY when it comes to football! They go SO HARD
Now the question.. did you move here afterwards??
@@huh4tofpv384 sadly no. Had a kid fresh out of the army and moved back to PA near my family.
@@zacharyricords8964 life happens... well one day you might be able to join our county down here.. lol..
@@huh4tofpv384 hell yeah! Id like a small house in hill country, or maybe outside Austin.
@@zacharyricords8964 to be honest.. austin....SUX... it's like little California... high taxes.. dirty streets... every hwy is a toll road... super expensive.... the food is great.. shoot.. I got me a spot right on the trinity river.. close to trinity... for under 100k.. and I'm water front... and out of flood zone... .. my property taxes are 1200 a year.. 1 hr from Houston.. 2 hr from Dallas...
Most of these are nicer than the stadium at the D3 college I went to. And yeah, Texas doesn't mess around when it comes anything football. I still can't believe that last one is for a high school. My high school "stadium" in Wisconsin was just a pair of bleachers that sat maybe like a thousand people
Plano sitting between Frisco and Allen has a nice enough stadium the former NASL Dallas Tornado played a couple of years there after they moved from the Cotton Bowl in Dallas...
The reason their schools are so big and therefore the stadiums also is that they don't build new schools when needed. They just expand the existing school so it doesn't dilute the talent pool for the football team. Allen should have 4 or 5 high schools for a city that size, but they just have 1. My niece and nephew both graduated from Allen with graduating classes over 2000 kids.
google Ratliff Stadium in Odessa, TX. Seats 19,000 and was built in 1982 and is pretty much always sold out for Permian football. My ex-wife was born and raised in Odessa and my High school in Wisconsin probably couldn't even seat 1,000 ppl.
do these stadiums sellout? theres usually a shortage of seats lol
Odessa-Permian typically sells out Ratliff stadium.
@@andrewschliewe6392 thank you for making my point 🤦♂️
The stadiums being compared at 8:37 are Fertitta Field at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas and Sam Boyd Stadium, the home field of the nearby University of Nevada, Las Vegas. UNLV is a Division 1 FBS school, which means it plays at the top level of university American football. But Catholic high schools in the U.S. like Gorman often have wealthy alumni, so it's no surprise they can build a very nice looking stadium (Gorman also produces high-level football talent who often go on to FBS schools and occasionally the NFL.)
It is somewhat surprising that UNLV's stadium is one of the least impressive at the FBS level.
AAF (Alliance of American Football) was a professional football league that only lasted one season.
Paul Brown is a legend in American football. The Cleveland Browns NFL team were named for him, he was their first coach. He was also the first coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, who modeled their uniforms after the Browns' uniforms.
Massillon High School is still a big deal in high school football.
The stadium in Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma was in the movie Ten Things I Hate About You.
I went to an Allen Texas game when Kyler Murray was the QB who is now the QB for my favorite team the Cardinals (I had no idea who he was at the time). The stadium is absolutely ridiculous.
Massillon Stadium has an indoor practice facility. First Masssillon vs McKinley was in 1894.
Love your energy and passion!
They don't just sell out, they run out of standing room. At almost every single football stadium in Texas every Friday night. The support is unrivaled with parents, friends, locals, and the away crowd travels too. I played near the border of Mexico that was a 7 hour drive and we had nearly 1,000 fans come to support us and the home team had probably 2,000 there as well. And I went to a small school.
Stadium High School was in our division when I was in High School so we played there every year. Being built in 1910 meant that it had zero modern amenities. It is literally carved out of the hillside with cement bleachers and is one heck of a climb out of after a game. The teams and the cheerleaders had busses to take them in and out but everyone else had to climb the stairs after the game or to use the limited and quite dated facilities. It is still a stunning stadium even if it is a shell of its (1910-1970s) 32,000 seat capacity. If you want to see more of the beautiful school building, parts of the movie 10 Things I Hate About You was filmed there.
The school itself, and the stadium have an interesting history, including rumors of closed off smuggling tunnels hidden underneath them.
I visited the Stadium Bowl in January of 2022. Checked off a place I wanted to go visit on my bucket list.
We had 32000 show up for a semi-final game, it was insane.
The very first NFL game of every season is played on the stadium built by the Canton OH schools as the home field for the district's two high schools.
The inaugural game at Eagle Stadium in Allen actually went over capacity. I went to Allen, it’s definitely jaw dropping
Here in Los Angeles, most high schools have their own stadium. Medium sized schools typically have capacity of 2,000-3,000. Large schools have stadiums with capacity of 3,000-5,000. The high school I went has a basic stadium for about 3,000 and has football field and rubber track. HIgh schools generally have a lot of sports facilities. several baseball and softball fields, several tennis courts and indoor arena for basketball, volleyball, and badminton. This is very typical.
I'm from New England where high school football is very popular, but doesn't have the same intense, passionate following in places like Texas or Ohio, where high schoolers are hoping to land scholarships to major colleges. Even so, one thing is true everywhere: there's a great loyalty by the alumni of the school to their sports teams. Not just friends and family of the players come out to watch and cheer. Alumni from past generations still show up for games, especially if they are former players. My husband was a running back for 3 years on his high school varsity team. His two brothers also played at the varsity level. The friendships he made as a player have lasted to this day, 50+ years later. He worked for the school department and coached the Junior Varsity football team and was part of the varsity coaching team when they won the state championship. Every year members from those decade old teams (and their families) reunite at games to relive their glory days and share memories of high school. We may not have the number of fans that some schools in the US have, but the loyal followers are there and account for big numbers of attendees at the weekly games.
You have to understand that school football is central to the history of gridiron football and originated back in the era when most children did not attend high school. High school football is older than college football and was connected to professional football in the early years. The annual Canton/Massillon high school football game is older than the NFL. (Not mentioned in the video: Massillon traditionally keeps a tiger cub as their high school football mascot. They've been doing this since the late nineteenth century.) And yes, these stadia can sell out for important games, though it should be noted that the ticket prices are significantly lower for high school games than for college or professional games.
I was surprised IMG Academy didnt make it on here. Everything they have for sports is insane.
IMG is even big in soccer. Used to host the USSF youth residency program, America’s version of the FA National School at Lilleshall.
I used to live nearby and have spent time there for tournaments. While their output is amazing (it better be for the cost of tuition) their stadium facilities aren't quite at this level. They have plenty of good quality fields on campus in their soccer complex, but they aren't set up as stadiums. They're more focused on the sports science/producing pro athletes aspect than the glorification of their campus.
Curiously, they -do- have a hotel on campus because the majority of their students are from out of state and, given the insane cost of tuition, they can afford to fly in to watch games.
That's because IMG is a private sports factory high school. They don't spend the money on facilities and don't compare to the top TEXAS high school football programs revenue. They have good facilities but not like the ones shown here. Recruiting high school kids from across the country isn't the same as playing kids in their local ISD that the parents paid for the stadium in tax dollars.
Dude... I live in a farming town of 300 people in the middle of the US. I live 30 minutes from a grocery store and over an hour away from a city of any serious size. There are 143 students in the entire junior and senior high school (grades 6 - 12, 11-18 years old). The graduating class last year consisted of 14 students, 10 of which were girls. We play 8-man football (instead of fielding 11 guys, we field 8) and on Friday nights in fall this place is a madhouse. The entire town any many of the outlying farmers and their families show up to watch the games. I don't even have any kids and I still go to games once in a while. We take football very very seriously here in the US.
I live like 25 min from the Allen stadium, I played against them there before, also got to play in the cowboys stadium several times. Pretty cool experiences!
8:07 Paul Brown coached the Ohio State Buckeyes to a national championship. He founded and coached the Cleveland Browns, who are named for him. He coached and helped found the Cincinnati Bengals. His family still owns the Bengals.
Friday nights are for high school games. Saturday is for college games. And sundays, Monday’s, and thursdays are for the pros. Btw, all are sold out
Don't forget Wednesday night Jr. High football, Thursday night JV games and rec leagues on Saturdays lol
The AAF (Alliance of American Football) was an American Football league that happened in 2019.
Here's a wikipedia article if you want to research a bit more, but I am going to make a long story short: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_of_American_Football
Basically, the inaugural AAF season supposed to have 10 weeks of regular season play and 4-team postseason playoff with the championship game in SAM BOYD STADIUM in Las Vegas.
However, the league ran into financial trouble basically from the start. The season began on Feb. 9, and on Feb. 19, Thomas Dundon (the owner of the Carolina Hurricane sHockey team) made an investment in the league to save it from a short term financial crisis). One thing Dundon did when he arrived was change the venue of the championship game to The Star, the stadium seen in this video.
Then, after 8 weeks of games, on April 2, Dundon pulled his investment from the league, so the season just... ended... just like that. The league would file for bankruptcy on April 17.
On a personal note, this really stung for me because I was in the hometown of an AAF team called the Orlando Apollos and we were 7-1 and had already secured a playoff spot by then! I'd been to games and was really getting into the team. Just sucked that they couldn't play the championship game.
I actually still have a few pieces of Orlando Apollos merch, including a hat and a pennant. Might make for an interesting story for my kids one day.
The AAF was a start up professional football league that never made it through it's first season.
Most of small town USA spend Friday nights at the High School Football game. In my town growing up, everyone went, and I mean everyone. It was a favorite place for a date, and all the seats were filled. Our school sat 5000 in the seats and they added more seating over the years. Track, Soccor and any other games were played there as well. The sound of the band and the cheers dominated the entire town during game nights. You could hear it from miles away.
Football is a Religion here in Texas.. It's Friday Night Lights, Saturday Afternoons, Sunday Afternoons and for some Monday and Thursday Night Lights.. Thanks for the video.. look up the stadium in Aledo TX as well.. its no joke
It should be noted that Canton, OH and Massillon, OH stadiums are only 8 -10 miles apart in the same county (Stark County).
My high schools stadium was decent sized but flooded with monsoon rains and it ruined the field for a year. Being a marching band that threw a wrench into our plans so we used the backup field and our team used everything else available
My high school football field held about 10,000 people. Considering that my high school had about 3,500 students, 500 teachers and administration, plus parents, along with the visiting school, administration and parents, it's easy to fill 10,000 seats.
5 and 6 are a mere 8 miles apart from each other and are the homes of rival schools Canton McKinley and Massillon Washington. Massillon/McKinley has the distinction of being the only high school football game with a line in Vegas.
Friday Night Lights was a great show, and definitely worth watching to get a feel for football culture in small town USA (just don't get it confused with the movie that wasn't nearly as good). On the opposite spectrum of TV shows about high school football, there was a show called Two-a-Days on MTV in the 2000s that would be worth checking out, if for anything else, pure entertainment. It was a reality show about a historically great high school football team (Hoover High School in Alabama).
Friday Night Lights is based on Odessa-Permian High School in Odessa, TX with a population of 100,000.
@@andrewschliewe6392 Notice I didn't say it was based on small town USA, just that it gives you a good feel for it 😉 I grew up in a small southern town of less than 600 and graduated from a public school with less than 30 people in my class. The other closest school was about 40 minutes away, slightly bigger with a town about of about 2000. To be so small, my area (the 5 or so high schools in a 50-mile radius) has produced a good bit of NFL talent, and high school football was borderline religious. Friday Night Lights was the first TV show that was what I felt, was an accurate depiction of my small town, football-obsessed growing-up experience I'd ever seen.
I got so lucky and played in both Massillon and canton Mckinley stadiums in high school. That is where they played the state championship games each year. Was a great experience.
I live in a rural area and some towns all but shut down when high school games between rival schools are playing.
My college roommate at the University of Pittsburg was an extra in the Tom Cruise 1983 movie All
The Right Moves filmed at her HS, she took me to a game where thousands attended every weekend in Johnstown Pa.
I've been in the Allen Stadium for a high school band competition. Its gorgeous & HUGE.
Our High School Football Team in East Texas plays Frisco Teams and we have played in The Star ( we call it Jerry’s World in Texas ) . It’s something to see , I am a retired Teacher and School Bus Driver . I Drove the lead bus to all the Team’s Games with our Drill Team ( took 3 buses to for our drill team and 5 buses and two 18 wheelers for our band ) the. We will have charter buses come in for our Football Team , and we are a small 5a school .
High School Football Fields typically are also the Soccer Field(usually they use yellow paint for the Soccer lines) during fall, in Spring they are also the Lacross fields, and often the track and field facilities are around the field and in the out of bounds area of the Football and Soccer dimmensions. The Football field is also often the place where High School Graduation takes place.
Which sport has the big stadiums varies regionally. Most of the huge high school football stadiums are in Texas. In Minnesota, hockey is the big sport, with several arenas used for high school games that seat 3000+ fans. (And yes, they sell out at least occasionally.) The state championships are played at an NHL arena which seats 18,000 - and the large-school division consistently sells out. Indiana has some incredible facilities for high school basketball.
Gene Hackman in the film Hoosiers... A must see... District, then state!
United States citizens don't mess around with football. There only about 2000 people living in my town and we just built a new sports complex.
In the Dallas Fort Worth Area there are stadiums that hold well over 10,000 people, but not all high schools have their own stadiums. They share the same stadiums and schedule so the same team isn't get a home game at the stadium on the same week. Some high schools do have their own, but some of the bigger school districts have big stadiums that several high schools share. They may also have games on a Friday for one home team, and then on Saturday afternoon for another school to be the home team. Frisco is one of those stadiums in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Canton, Ohio is where the NFL Hall of Fame is located.
Back when I was in High School in McKinney Texas, Allen was our rival school (They had a crappy field then) and Frisco was just a bunch of farms. The "Nice" stadium in the metro-plex back then was Highland Park. Now McKinney, Frisco, Allen all have giant nice stadiums. McKinney was the first High School in the state with an indoor practice field for football.
I have been a football official for 23 years, I love it.
Yes the Allen stadium is open now...after all the construction issues. Mckinney TX stadium is newer and just as impressive
Yeah I was lucky in high school to play in a really unique stadium, it was very much sunk into the ground so it always felt like the stands were more above you than next to you and it used to be the stadium for wake forest university, only lost there once in four years lol
Lawrence at Lost In The Pond did upload a video about the differences from both British & America education system a little while ago.
By the way, Texas loves their football. Even at the high school level. Which is..... interesting.
Look up the pit at elder Ohio it is one of the hardest places to play in the country
That’s my school!
Just missing the Top-15.The Berry Center,Klein,Texas Waco ISD Stadium Waco, Texas, Randall Reed Stadium Porter,Texas,and Woodforest Bank Stadium, Shenandoah, Texas 👍👍👍
High school is secondary school in UK. About age 15 - 18. I can't convert to 'Year Number' in the UK but you are thinking right. Our mates, parents, & school staff are all that come see the game in the US. But there are thousands of them. If you are in a small town with nothing else to do on Friday night, it wouldn't be uncommon to see a lot of towns people there too. In a big city there are other options here so the 'options' can't be the only reason. School kids put on a good show at a very reasonable price I think is the real reason. More Brits should try their local team. It might surprise you. Whether they get sold out depends. Most will be sold out some of the time. Some get sold out a lot of the time. And some school consistently sell out. Now as the stadium goes up in size sell outs become harder. But there are some schools with very large stadiums (10k+) that do sell out all the time. I think I know some but will watch the video all the way thru first. Yep, Frisco is close to me. I thought the first stadium in the video was Allen. Also close to me & just down the road from Frisco. There are states that are huge on high school football. Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California. But many stadiums not shown here in other states can be huge & sold out many times. He did say he would show deference to single school stadiums so you won't see those here. There are many examples though. Not just the boys either. Girl's fast pitch softball is amazing too. But that is another story. Or another reaction for you maybe.
My high schools home football stadium was Alamo Stadium… yeah it’s massive… during the playoffs it would be packed.
I was thinking of Tacoma's Stadium High School and there, the next one was that! But then I did a double-take. Woodrow Wilson High? That was my HS. Don't they have a feetsball (as Tom Swift called it) field? I remember when the storm sewer broke above the Stadium bowl and washed it down on Schuster Parkway. I think there were bleachers in the apex prior to that.
Yes, those are lacrosse markings in the Washington stadium . . . nice to see a fellow lax fan!
WHOA! Is that school in Washington where 10 Things I Hate About You was filmed??? Looks similar!
I got to run around that field at Bishop Gorman, it is really impressive.
Highschool sports especially football are a community supported activity. Players often participate in charity and community events along side of local business that contribute to team and community. Often whole gyms, fields , buildings, equipment, are donated by local business to the school. Family of players often highly active in all of the above. It carries over to surrounding neighborhoods and brings people together. It's also competitive and in some schools at a very high level with kids who have been playing for up to ten years. People take pride in home town teams in the US, with merch too. kids hoping for a scollerships and college education out of it. College is expensive in US. Watch a HS state champ game you'll be surprised at the level of play. Great reactions
Texas high school games are sometimes televised. And the school I graduated from was in small town but our stadium was one we bought from a college that was upgrading. Yes, that's a high school stadium.
The first stadium you saw was a pro team stadium, but Texas and the middle Ohio and local states are football madhouses.
Even Baseball is big in Texas. In Corpus Christi we have about 8 high schools and we have a AA Pro team here the CC Hooks. and their stadium holds up to 8000 fans including standing/berm. In the playoffs they sell out all the time and sometimes during regular season if its a huge rivalry such as Moody vs Calallen it gets packed as well. Every time Moody makes it to state they play in a AAA stadium(one under MLB) at Dell Diamond stadium and we pack that 11,000+ stadium as well. usually likewise for the opponent team, but more so us or if calallen makes it as well. Of course no where near Texas Football, but people don't realize baseball gets a lot of people as well down here.
Great video Bees. 😋😋😋😋 I live less than 10 miles from Stadium High school in Tacoma. ( #2 on the list. The one with the great view of the ocean) I'm pretty shocked to see a stadium that I actually know on the list. High school sports are crazy here. My kids high school has a golf, swimming, track, tennis, volleyball, teams as well as the big three. (Football, basketball and baseball.) I played high school tennis and baseball and the competition was crazy. For example, the baseball team has room for 25 players and over 400 guys would tryout for those spots. We travelled all over our state (California) playing in tournaments. My high school had over 2000 students.🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 Today, the largest high school in California has 5,000 students. WWOOWW!!
For a long time in the early days of the oil boom the oil companies would actually pay for a lot of school buildings. This is why Texas was able to develop so quickly because there was a great deal of generosity from the oil Baron
There's a song by Kenny Chesney called the Boys of fall that looks at high-school football from a player's perspective you should listen to it
High School football in Texas is mental, top to bottom. I graduated high school in San Angelo, TX. There is a movie "Friday Night Lights" that is about just how mental west Texas high school football was about the time I was there. These games are WELL attended and there is enormous emotional investment in the outcomes. The movie is pretty much exactly what I remember. Those stadium are money makers for the schools.
I've been at all those Texas fields except El Paso.
Fresco TX is near Dallas makes sense….. you need to watch the TV show Friday night lights …. On Netflix to truly understand high school football
I went to Stadium High School. The number two on this list. great place for a public school
I highly advise visiting the Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, OH or the Stadium Bowl in Tacoma, WA. Been to one of the two myself so far. Would love to go to a high school championship at Tom Benson. Should've gone last year when Clinton-Massie, a nearby Division IV high school won the D4 championship game.
You have to understand. In America Friday night is high school football, Saturday afternoon and evening are college football, and Sunday is NFL football. We are so obsessed with our Friday night high school football that we made a movie and a tv series about it called Friday Night Lights. And just to emphasize the importance of his #6 pick in Canton Ohio is that stadium is where the very 1st NFL football game of EVERY season gets played. That's why it's an NFL level facility rather than the typical high school level facility.
Work for Allen. Not only does it sellout, there is a waiting list for season tickets. I have been lucky enough to get on the roof, what a view.
My son played at the Alamo stadium in 8th grade, it is called the Rock House because outside Rock walls. It doesn’t look nearly crazy like it does in the video. Yes Alamo Stadium sells out a few times a year. Some of the nearby high school teams are better than many D2 and possibly D1 college football teams
Allen, Texas High School has a marching band that has 700+ members. There are CZcams videos of their performances.
We live within earshot of the Whitehouse, TX Wildcat Stadium, home field of Patrick Mahomes and Dylan Cantrell. It has a capacity of 7,011 and gets sold-out pretty regularly.
Our local high schools and stadiums depend on the quality of the football program. Here in La Habra, CA our new stadium seats 7000 people and LHHS Football sells the place out every Friday night. Football lives there no doubt.
High school football games are a great date night out & fairly inexpensive. Whether you go to high school or you graduated long ago!!! Especially if it isn’t a horrible night out (cold we can handle ~ especially with blankets, hot chocolate or coffee, & snuggled up with our people (friends, family, loved ones 😄). Some people bring their own chairs, if it’s middle school, some even bring blankets to sit on the grass with, especially if they have wiggly kids & have a little picnic while watching the game & their kiddos. Our schools go from Pre-school (pre-k, about age 4 or 5), Elementary school (kindergarten & first grade through 5th ~ Most elementary schools these days have Pre-K through 5th grade). Middle school is 6th grade through 8th grade), & High School is 9th grade through 12th grade, which is considered 9th grade (also known as Freshman year), 10th grade (also known as Sophomore year), 11th grade (Junior year), & 12th grade (Senior year). THEN college or some type of schooling to train for a specific degree or career field (like Nursing, plumber, electrician, etc).
They actually play the Hall of Fame NFL game in the Canton field.
The most basic way I can relate to you how American Football fandom works is like this-
High School Football=National League
College Football=EFL
NFL=Premier League
I was expecting to see the stadium near me here in Cypress Texas. Look up the Berry Center. it is amazing. such a fun experience and way better than where i grew up in Portland Oregon.
Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke is a politician from Texas. He is fairly well-known in the US.
Great video!! If you’re a reader I recommend Friday Night Lights the book. It’s a fascinating read and I think would really deepen your understanding of American football and Texas.
The Star is not considered a high school football stadium. It is the Dallas Cowboys practice facility. The high school sports teams may play there but it is a billion dollar facility built specifically for the Dallas Cowboys. Their offices and staff all work from there. There is a private gym (outsiders can pay to join), restaurants, etc. It's HUGE.
This was not at a High School stadium or field, but, in 1937 at Soldier Field in Chicago, 121,000 people went to see the annual Championship game played by the winner of the Public League (all of the Public High schools in Chicago) vs the winner of the Catholic League (Catholic High Schools in Chicago).
That year the game was between Chicago Leo High School, and Austin Catholic High School of Chicago.
Allen High School in Allen, Texas is my high school Alma mater. I graduated from there in 2020, and Allen has been my hometown for my entire life. We sometimes are referred to as a college. Lol.