Meanwhile kids are 30-40 to a classroom and have to share textbooks.
Also the textbooks were printed in the 1980's.
Also also the history textbooks are all about "The War of Northern Aggression" and use racial slurs.
This is Leon Kropotkin Stalin-Mao, the authoritarian anarchist dictator of Soviet North Chinese Venezuela, he killed eleventy billion people with his bare hands. Still think socialism is cool?
Any revolution that kills eleventy billion people gets my support :parenti: - Michel Peronti
On February 27, 2014, the stadium was closed due to cracking in concrete making it unsafe to use.[20][21] The 2014 varsity football season played every game on the road
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I know really that high school sports is a fairly good thing to spend money on compared to where most US spending goes, but it’s still frustrating to see a monument to giving children concussions be built instead of public housing or any number of better uses
i mean id like to take a look at this high schools textbooks and class sizes
But ultimately why should the money for textbooks and teachers come out of sports? We can do both. $60M is not that much compared to military and other wasteful spending the US does.
But if the school has $60M to do something with, a football stadium is the wrong choice.
sport is likely the only adequately funded part, to the exclusion of others, but who knows maybe theyre all richie rich
All that useable, flattened land behind the stadium lay waste so that overweight conservative fucknuts can park their cars for a maximun of 4 hours a week and watch their roided up HS failson sit on the bench for 3 hours while the 18 marginally decent players chase an inflatable ball.
SPOILER ALERT: none of them will make it to college ball.
Its funny, because Houston literally solved this problem at Reliant by dropping a huge rail line adjacent to the stadium. The Houston Red Line was, last I checked, something like the second or third most heavily trafficked rail lines in the country. And I can't help but suspect that's heavily influenced by how many people pile in during Rodeo or Game Day (nevermind how many use the line to commute to downtown what with all the extra housing that got built up along its length following construction).
Dallas has an even more advanced rail setup that's built to feed people into and out of its downtown and entertainment districts.
You could absolutely run rail from the south side of Plano, where the red and yellow lines out of Dallas terminate, and straight up to the stadium. You could turn the whole area into a giant mall space and make the high school stadium a centerpoint for both entertainment and commerce. You could free up a ton of car-park real estate for a host of developments while improving the Plano-to-Dallas commute substantially and even making life easier for the fucking kids who go to the fucking school.
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SPOILER ALERT: none of them will make it to college ball.
Eh. Just for starters...
https://www.texasfootball.com/article/2021/06/05/2023-five-star-de-david-dj-hicks-to-allen?ref=related_title
They put up a few top recruits every year. And I'm sure there are others who fill out the back benches.
https://www.recruitingnewsguru.com/tag/allen-high-school/
Also the development of more and more advanced padding and protective gear it has in fact gotten worse, back when people were wearing leather helmets and were like 150 lbs lighter for a line man there wasn't so much constant smashing together of heads. While the fancy new helmets might protect from superficial immediate head injuries it does nothing to stop your brain from sloshing around and banging against the inside of your skull. The impacts and the overall kinetic energy in the sport has increased exponentially over the last several decades.
same with bareknuckle boxing vs what became of gloves.
and cars driving closer to cyclists wearing helmets, but the solution to that particular paradox of safety is infrastructure.
Why calling it football when you could more accurately call it armored rugby.
The Chinese call it Hand Egg, which is much more accurate than football.
I first heard it from a Chinese kid I worked with. They also called Kobe Bryant "Peter Pan" which doesn't really make sense to me, but it is funny.
Some NFL games look like fucking military parades.
There was a big scandal a few years back because the armed forces were paying the teams for the privilege of promoting their propaganda.
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/verify-military-nfl-acts-of-patriotism-kneeling-national-anthem/65-730024a0-3286-4d28-afe8-996606547da7#:~:text=VERIFY%3A%20Military%20no%20longer%20pays,year%20before%20the%20Kaepernick%20protest
I think they still do it, they just aren't allowed to pay the teams.
Football is an honest to God religion in Texas. Where once the realm was beggered building cathedrals, they now build stadiums.
In 2095, the American caveman will decide who’s king by winning the annual “super bowl”
Tbf, humanity’s been building big stadiums for a long time
:geordi-no: build big ring for high schoolers to throw balls
:geordi-yes: build big ring for high schoolers to fight to the death
just like one of my japanese animes
Notably both the church and high profile high school football are chock to the brim with rapists and an audience of slobbering hogs who are more than happy to forgive the above.
Only one type of athlete gets this level of investment, too. If you're not a football player then you're an afterthought in Texas schools.
watched an episode of Wife Swap (a very weird show) last night where this guy was all "yeah I don't see how you can be an American and not be into a sport I just don't get it"
SPORTSBRAIN
Dude with a beer gut and a pair of bum knees explains the value of sports education to the masses.
There’s a large parking lot near my workplace and I was so confused because I don’t see anyone parking there despite all the apartments surrounding it. Then one day I was driving further and I realized that parking lot was for the stadium
Conservatives don't like parking structures. They hate stairs, they'd rather cross a mile is scorching pavement than go up a flight of stairs
It's not the panacea, but it's a very needed thing for free up space in a fully carbrainizated area.
Tho it might slow des-carbrainization.
only in dense downtown areas where multiple blocks of the city are dedicated solely to multistorey carparks, it's mostly due to private parking and subsidized public parking being the only way to get them built
if the land is cheap enough there's no short-term financial reason for them, so none get built
Tell me those aren't luxury suites on the far side of the stadium. Fuckers probably have a waiting list for season tickets that have a fee just to get in line. College football does that. It's criminal but the hogs love their slop.
I mean, if that many people show up regularly to community events like a high school football event that's actually kind of cool, theyprobably have a healthier community than my neolib city.
For real, my high school had an award winning football team and they played on an open field with some basic bleachers on it
Texas
Healthy community
absolutely not. American football especially in Texas is a horrific abusive industry even at the high school level (especially at the high school level). Unhealthy amounts of pressure to join and win, players allowed to neglect their education and get away with bullshit in class all the time, college recruiters luring children using hookers, drugs and mansions. Not to mention the innate danger in playing the stupid sport. My coach encouraged us to do cocaine before games so we could perform better, and this was fucking B-team JV high school football. No, fuck football, fuck Texas and fuck this godforsaken stadium. If I could have to my way I'd go full cultural revolution on these unholy abominations- tear down the temples and melt the relics down for gold
There's probably lots of mandatory military worship and sponsorships at this stadium. And if it's anything like the football schools I've been around, the field isn't allowed to be used by any other sports and the marching band is lucky if they're able to practice there a few times a year. There isn't even a track around the field!
Also football is violent and toxic fandom is encouraged while cheering at kids who often get permanently injured from this or while playing in college. I know plenty of people dealing with long term injuries that seriously regret ever playing football.
marching band is lucky if they’re able to practice there a few times a year.
if it's anything like band at my texas highschool when I was growing up, you can only play an instrument at school if you're also in marching band. there were no alternative options, your entire music agenda was about marching for the football players with some competition solo playing once or twice a year as an afterthought. No practice on the grass football field, ever. Practice was only ever on a black asphalt parking lot, in texas heat.
I quit playing my instrument after highschool because i perceived it only as a tool to celebrate the dumbest, shittiest people at school. I'm mad about it still twenty years later because if literally anyone in the music program in my texas education had ever even hinted at the idea that the football auxiliary marching band members could get together outside of playing john philip fucking sousa in a dumb outfit, we could have created our own music and even bands.
kids who often get permanently injured from this or while playing in college
I fully believe that American football should be banned under the age of 18, and probably in colleges as well. Doing that to kids is cruel and stupid.
My knees are both fucked from playing football for a year in high school.
Nah, football is deeply atomizing and individualistic. It's a "community event" that doesn't bring people together, except in hatred over people from a different neighbourhood with a different team. People don't meet new people at high school football games.
Sports rivalries aren’t “hatred,” and if you grow up in a smaller town than your local highschool football game is very much a community event where you meet friends and meet new people
Sports rivalries are just nationalism for minors. It's the first step to getting people to invest in a completely imagined community based on literally nothing.
Do you have anything in common with these people besides physical location
I disagree. I’ve met a lot of new people at tailgates at the university I work at, and get to see people I already know to. School sports may limit it to just people with kids getting to socialize, but that’s still a useful place for those people.
Tailgating and :grill:ing outside the event is fine and a cool vibe. Smaller sporting events are fine. Bigass sporting events like this are just not very conducive to socialization.
All sports teams should be collectively owned by the community they’re based in
Yeah, totally. Enjoy a sports bar or vibe outside. But like, the Bigass loud stadium sport event model is not a place for socialization, and high school football isn't generally televised, and have a much smaller area of influence which results in lesser focus on the peripheral activities like watch parties or tailgating outside. It's just a big bowl people go in to scream for a few hours while kids give eachother traumatic brain injuries, and then people go home and mald at their neighbours because their kids go to the wrong school.
I will die on this baseball mound. I'm sorry, and I know it's cringe, but I would rather golf than say American football good.
Wow ok, I didn’t know Canadian football was a real thing until I read this comment. Here I was thinking Jon Bois invented it: https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl-chronicles
Smaller sports events are fine, but large scale crap like this is just not set up for it. It's too loud and chaotic.
I can promise you that this school did not spend even $1M on any other sports, music, choir, or academic competitions.
The funding from the stadium came from a $119M bond. $23M of that went to building a performing arts center as well.. Regarding @HoChiMaxh' comment you're replying too, they're a boujee suburb that relies on being heavily subsidized. NJB has a decent series explaining how this works. In the case of Allen for this post, they're now over a billion in debt as a result with no real escape plan. Good luck getting a heavily conservative city of 100,000 that cries at the slightest tax increase to have everyone pay back $10,000 each to cover that. That's, you know, including all the children, elderly peeps, and other peeps who aren't working.
Damn, I am amazed that a Texas school district would spend money on anything that isn't football. I am owned
I still remember being in the faculty lounge in my local school district, opening the newsletter, being told how we all needed to tighten our belts because of a multimillion dollar shortfall... then on the very next fucking page the newsletter proudly announced the construction of a new stadium for a prestige school in the district for the exact same price as the shortfall. :agony-minion:
