Last night I took in my first Tennessee High School football game with my friend (and very smart math tutor) Ginnie. What I saw blew my mind. Growing up in a town of approx. 1200 made me realize just how small my town was, and just how big the schools here are.
I counted eighty players on one team. 80 PLAYERS! Where I'm from, we have 13 players this year. I asked Ginnie "what's the point of being on a football team if you never get to play"? She summed it all up for me when she said "To get the girl".
Then there were the cheerleaders. There must have been thirty of them. 30 CHEERLEADERS!
I think we had six or seven when I was in high school. Next, the band took the field. There wasn't just the home team band, but the away band also. They hauled massive drums sets onto the field using four wheelers. There were flag girls and they rotated into different movements during the song. It was the band I WANTED to belong to in high school.
In the end the away team (the side I was on) lost, but it totally took me back to that place in high school when Friday night was what I lived for. The playing in the pep band and being on the pom pons (dance team) squad. The hanging out with my friends and talking about who was hot or who would score the next touch down. Yep, if I could do it all over again...... I would.
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