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Duff Paddy · Post by **Duff Paddy** » June 30th, 2007, 1:37 pm

There's a new show on MTV about high school football, makes the Leinster schools cups look like a grade c tag league.

Motorcycle police escort of the team to the stadium

FatBoyChoice · Post by **FatBoyChoice** » June 30th, 2007, 3:19 pm

Yeah, they really love their highschool/college sport over there. Have you seen some of the stadia they play in? The amount of money available to them, particularly colleges is crazy, many of the college coaches make $2 millon+ a year. They must really milk all their rich alumni!

sheepshagger · Post by **sheepshagger** » June 30th, 2007, 5:45 pm

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Friday-Night-Li ... 801&sr=8-1

Slipper1 · Post by **Slipper1** » June 30th, 2007, 6:59 pm

sheepshagger wrote:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Friday-Night-Li ... 801&sr=8-1

Thats a great film - and even better book.

thecoolfreak · Post by **thecoolfreak** » June 30th, 2007, 9:00 pm

Slipper1 wrote:
sheepshagger wrote:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Friday-Night-Li ... 801&sr=8-1
Thats a great film - and even better book.

The tv series is even better than both

tate · Post by **tate** » July 4th, 2007, 12:33 pm

FatBoyChoice wrote:Yeah, they really love their highschool/college sport over there. Have you seen some of the stadia they play in? The amount of money available to them, particularly colleges is crazy, many of the college coaches make $2 millon+ a year. They must really milk all their rich alumni!

ohio state (a university) have sold out their 100,000 all-seater purpose built stadium for the last four years for every home game. Makes the 6,000 season tickets leinster sold pale into insignificance

combatlogo · Post by **combatlogo** » July 4th, 2007, 1:00 pm

tate wrote:
FatBoyChoice wrote:Yeah, they really love their highschool/college sport over there. Have you seen some of the stadia they play in? The amount of money available to them, particularly colleges is crazy, many of the college coaches make $2 millon+ a year. They must really milk all their rich alumni!
ohio state (a university) have sold out their 100,000 all-seater purpose built stadium for the last four years for every home game. Makes the 6,000 season tickets leinster sold pale into insignificance

Most of the biggest college football teams would have stadia with 80K+ capacities. A lot of the funding would come from TV rights, college football is on a par with the pro game in terms of popularity as is basketball, especially when the "March madness" rolls around.

tate · Post by **tate** » July 4th, 2007, 3:12 pm

i know, just picked ohio as i knew their figures. Thanks to setanta and nasn, i was able to follow all the footbawl last season, and if i was so inclined the basketball, from the ncaa.

icebaby · Post by **icebaby** » July 4th, 2007, 10:11 pm

but then again if I was in Ohio there wouldn't be much else to go and see (afaik)

Leinster Believer · Post by **Leinster Believer** » July 5th, 2007, 2:37 pm

One of the main reasons high school and college football in America is because of the franchise system of many sports.

A franchise can be picked up and moved from state to state. Owners of teams get offers from cities to build stadia for them if they move their team to that particular state.

Whilst the high school and college teams have a tradition going back many years so they generate more interest.

You'll find one of the biggest supportted football teams is Notre Dame (college) and that the biggest/most viewed day in the Basketball season isn't even the playoffs but the so called "March Madness" where all the college games are on.

Friday Night lights is a great movie to! Brilliant sound track to, check it out.

Post by **limecat** » July 5th, 2007, 3:40 pm

Leinster Believer wrote:Friday Night lights is a great movie to! Brilliant sound track to, check it out.

explosions in the sky "lite"

Psycho B · Post by **Psycho B** » July 5th, 2007, 6:18 pm

I love "Remember the Titans"

thecoolfreak · Post by **thecoolfreak** » July 5th, 2007, 6:20 pm

Anyone know when this show is on? Saw a bit of it a week ago or so but i forget what day and time it was on!

Leinsterman · Post by **Leinsterman** » July 5th, 2007, 6:41 pm

Saturday 1pm on Sky

Duff Paddy · Post by **Duff Paddy** » July 15th, 2007, 7:32 pm

This show is on MTV again now. It's called two a days. It's a fascinating programme - wonder if Irish schools rugby isn't going in this direction, especially now that Setanta are televising the matches.

Interesting feature every season watching schools matches is that people always comment that the players are looking very big for 17 year olds - well allowing for genetic/race differences - these guys are on a different level.

cud · Post by **cud** » October 22nd, 2007, 2:07 pm

Duff Paddy wrote:This show is on MTV again now. It's called two a days. It's a fascinating programme - wonder if Irish schools rugby isn't going in this direction, especially now that Setanta are televising the matches.

Interesting feature every season watching schools matches is that people always comment that the players are looking very big for 17 year olds - well allowing for genetic/race differences - these guys are on a different level.

They may be huge, but having watched one program it's clear that few of them have any life outside football.

Danthefan · Post by **Danthefan** » November 23rd, 2007, 9:00 am

Spent some time in Berkeley this summer where the college also has an 80k stadium or there abouts, there were only about 25k students in the college but the whole town gets behind the football team. All the shops sell the gear, their jerseys get made by Nike, huge posters (like 20 or 30 feet high) up on the stadium of the players, etc. I think college football is nearly as popular as the NFL.

Leinsterman · Post by **Leinsterman** » November 23rd, 2007, 9:55 am

Danthefan wrote:Spent some time in Berkeley this summer where the college also has an 80k stadium or there abouts, there were only about 25k students in the college but the whole town gets behind the football team. All the shops sell the gear, their jerseys get made by Nike, huge posters (like 20 or 30 feet high) up on the stadium of the players, etc. I think college football is nearly as popular as the NFL.

It's far more popular .... particularly in places like Texas where EVERYBODY supports Texas A&M (the Aggies) or Texas state (Longhorns). Every shop is full of Longhorn merchandise and you're hard pressed to find any NFL gear.
I guess people feel the NFL franchises can always move - e.g. the Colts, Raiders etc... but the university teams will always stay put.

tate · Post by **tate** » November 23rd, 2007, 11:17 am

it also depends how close the nearest NFL team is to them, for many people college football is effectively their local pro-team. LA, for example doesnt have a NFL team, so college teams fill that void.

true blue 06 · Post by **true blue 06** » December 21st, 2007, 2:20 pm

does anyone remember years ago, i thinnk it was rte made a documentary on the clongowes sct. it followed them throughout the season because they were favourites that year. showed them in training and the aftermath of being knocked out