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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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For real, my high school had an award winning football team and they played on an open field with some basic bleachers on it
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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.
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.
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Oh we worked the whole back catalog
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.
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.
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All sports teams should be collectively owned by the community they’re based in
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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.
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Sports not bad, football stadium bad.
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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.
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Have you tried Canadian football?
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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
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.
7/10 but add pmc bug eating karens and its a 10/10
Do you have anything in common with these people besides physical location
yes? what do you think a community is?
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Smaller sports events are fine, but large scale crap like this is just not set up for it. It's too loud and chaotic.
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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
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Fair