Eating at high school games

I could stand to add about 5-10 pounds of good muscle. I was up to 191 at one point, and it was all muscle mass, but I was just too damn big so I ran it all off. I feel healthier at this weight. Hell, I think sometimes the reason I work out is so I can eat like a pig LOL

 

That sounds like a college venue. That's crazy.

 

That actually sounds like a pretty good plan. Most high school concession stands are run by booster clubs -- at least around these parts -- so shut down the stands and charge food trucks or restaurants a fee to set up inside the stadium. The booster clubs still raise some funds, but parents aren't required to work during the games. Win-win.

 

That's pretty close to the truth, and it goes beyond the food. There's also artificial turf and a scoreboard with a video screen. All paid for either through sponsorships, private donations and probably the fees that allow the restaurants to set up shop. Seating capacity is only about 4,500 (about twice what it was in my day), so it's not quite a Texas high school venue, but headed in that direction. And this is fairly commonplace among the large suburban schools up there.

My graduating class contributed a few hundred bucks when they were raising money for all this stuff, so now there's a "Class of '77" brick in an area that honors donors near the entrance.

 

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Is your alma mater named similarly to a piece of stereo equipment?

 

Same here. The quaint "grass field and a set of bleachers" stadium setup is quickly going by the wayside. Our local schools still have that setup and they're widely viewed as lagging behind on facilities. I can think of five schools in our area that have giant video boards and turf fields. In fact, six of the eight teams in our biggest school's district play on turf. Local High is one of the two that don't.
The soccer coaches, especially, hate it. The new stadiums have wider fields for soccer and turf plays differently than grass with how the ball moves across it. They play all their home games on a smaller grass field and then go on the road to one of the big suburban powerhouses in the playoffs and have to completely adjust their game to play on turf.

 

This is a joke. Tell your boss if he's worried about your eating habits to purchase a meal for you. And while he's doing that, tell him to STFU. The job is hard enough without some asswipe telling you not to eat. Man. WTF.

 

Hold on. You accepted the hockey stick? As a reporter who was covering the game?

 

Sure, why not? It's a contest. It's not like I was going to suddenly promise better coverage in exchange for a hockey stick.

 

Yeah, you still shouldn’t accept it. You shouldn’t be entered in a school-run contest, either.

These are pretty simple landmines to avoid. If I were a person in the crowd, I’d be kinda perturbed with you too.

 

Puhleeze. Any little thing in life can be a conflict of interest, especially in small towns. In the same town, my primary care doctor had two teenage kids who were very good athletes. They got in the paper because they did something newsworthy, not because their mother treated my sinus infection.

 

I wonder why I haven’t seen reporters covering professional hockey teams buy a puck and throw it on the ice. Oh, right. Because it’s unprofessional and makes you look like a ninny.