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This week's bizarre high school football score

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Chef2, Sep 4, 2018.

  1. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    All of ours is getting pushed back due to rain. We’re getting 3-4 months worth of rain in 48 hours. There is water everywhere. And it doesn’t matter how many layers you have. The bottom layer gets wet, you are screwed.
     
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  2. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    One of my former coverage teams dropped 88 points on an opponent last night. This was not some rando six-man game. This was a win-and-in game at the top level of Class 3A in Texas.
     
  3. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    What does a five-day snowstorm that brought 20 inches to Denver and more than 30 inches on the Plains mean? Sunday afternoon playoff football. 25 games across the state today (another six on Monday). I'll be working one of them, which at least will take away from having to watch Broncos-Chiefs.
     
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  4. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member

    The school near me is booked solid all weekend, starting with football on Friday, JV on Saturday, field hockey on Saturday and Sunday morning, youth football on Sunday afternoon. You can throw some little kids soccer in there as well.
     
  5. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Turf fields are a dime a dozen around me in North Texas. Even the tiniest schools around here went to turf. The last holdout was way up in Sherman, where they couldn't put turf because the field flooded regularly, but they're finally building a new stadium.
     
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  6. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    It was good you had a game today.
     
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  7. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    I think all the high schools in Santa Cruz County have gone to turf, between football and flag football in the fall, soccer in the winter and lacrosse in the spring. And that's just high school varsity sports.
     
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  8. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    From an aesthetic perspective, I still love grass. But if the goal is "let's get as many people using this as possible," then turf is the answer.
     
  9. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    One of our bigger local schools played a road game on grass the other night and it surprised me when I saw a video clip. I thought all of the Class 6A and 7A schools in Mississippi were turf by now. Our locals switched over in 2019, IIRC, and from a rough count I think it's only the third game they've played on grass since then.
     
  10. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Several years ago, a high school installed turf along with a new track.
    Once meets started, records started falling. An investigation took place.
    To the local Podunk Press's credit, it went with a pretty good head at the top of the front page:
    New Track Falls Short
     
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  11. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Best grass field I ever saw was at Texarkana Texas High probably 12 years ago. Couldn't tell the difference between grass and turf eyeballing from the press box. Had to be on the field to experience it. Their groundskeeper is probably working on a pro level now.
     
  12. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    10 minutes before kickoff, the home-side crowd was like, "Oh my God, they blocked it." Ugh.
     
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