The location was a place I knew well.
I graduated high school in that gym. Matter of fact, I got in trouble for blowing up a beach ball and hitting it into the crowd of my fellow seniors.
The drinking fountain is still unpredictable in it's flow.
The folding chairs sit just right of the basket, the principle making his presence known in the lead seat.
The cheerleaders prancing on the sidelines, more interested in their perfect spin than the actual score of the game.
That section of four kids in the first row that have way too much school spirit. Clothing themselves in face paint, two mis-matched socks with said school colors, hair bandannas, and any other silly fixture to prove they hold the title for most school spirit.
The mom that watches with pride as her son gets in for the last twenty seconds of the quarter.
All the players are the same, and yet it feels so different.
During high school, basketball games were the event on Friday night. You had to get there an hour early to even get a seat. Everyone was at the basketball game.
We used to bring in newspapers and as their starting line-up was called, shout out "WHO CARES?". We would chant Go Home, Go Home to the opposing fans if the score went up by ten points. We all wore matching tee shirts, for crying out loud.
Where are all the fans?
I have yet to see a high school game with even a quarter of the bleachers full. They do not even bother to unfold the last section.
I guess I am nostalgic to a fault. The thought of a whole town gathering together to root on the home team just gives me the warm and fuzzies.
Why don't people go anymore?
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they are all home playing the wii LOL
We were all just discussing that- me, Brad, & the Fig.
They said that it is because the girls and boys basketball now play during the same season. There is a basketball game every night of the week, and they alternate days. This is way too confusing and requires much organization from high school students. What games do you go to? How are they going to get there? What school nights do parents allow their kids out? (certainly not all of them!)
Things are just very different now.
Well said Wife!
All because some "super intelligent" chicks thought things weren't equal.
HELLO!! It's girls sports for crying out loud! You can't make people watch it no matter what you do!
Brad, you will think different when your 3 girls are in high school and play sports!!!!!!!
Braaad, you sound just like Josh.
My hopes and prayers are that my girls don't like basketball. There is almost nothing worse than girls basketball. Almost anything else is better in comparison. (Except cheerleading although then we get to watch the boys play!)
Oh, and Josh is a wise man.
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