| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | Drummond (60)
01/17/2006 | We were too small for a football team. Soccer was our football. Being a small academic school, our boy's sports teams mostly sucked (how else could I have been first string in soccer and tennis?), but our girls teams did pretty well.
Never got the experience of a homecoming football game. None of the girls was interested in cheerleading either.
In the 9th grade I conceived of a theory that team sports, football in particular, was social training for "us and them" (ie. war). A bit oversimplified, but consider many of the rituals around homecoming and "rivalries" with neighboring districts.
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 | INOitALL (0)
10/30/2005 | As a former player and a coach,I cannot think of any other game the encompasses everything football has.
Radomoscity, you obviously do not know what you are talking about if you think that football is a mindless sport. It is an extremely intelligent game full of precision and strategic moves.
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 | Gentle Jude (25)
10/25/2005 | Apart from the male testosterone and the fact you get a lot of fights break out during games, it is an excellent game to play (especially if it is Australian rules, where you are less likely to get hurt rather then this rough American style). Although I didn't formally play it, I liked playing football with my friends at lunch.
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 | cutegurl (17)
05/24/2005 | My very dear randomoscity, you are so very mistaken. Football is not the cold, dry, emotionaless thing you have described. No, it is much, much more. It's a game of comebacks, pain, joy, triumph, and trudging through it all to win it. It brings people together united in one cause, cheering the team on to victory. No, a forensics tournament may not be as popular, but you can't cheer really loud at a forensics tournament and yell you're an idiot to the judges, now can you. However in football, you can. You can yell, you can cheer, you yell stupid head at the ref. Football is poetry. Poetry expressed through motion.
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 | randomoscity (3)
05/24/2005 | I have never liked football, I don't like football, and I never will like football. Primarily, this is because it is an activity that involves passing an oddly-shaped ball across a length of grass while trying not to get trampled/tackled/injured/killed in the process. Secondly, my grudge takes root in the fact that this activity is more celebrated and respected than academic activity. Homecoming game is more popular than a forensics tournament, Varsity Quiz, or a theatrical production. It is sickening to me that the administrators of a so-called educational institution value this mindless sport above the enrichment of students' minds. Get your priorities straight or don't waste my time pretending that football is more beneficial than my studies.
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 | EschewObfuscation (71)
04/28/2005 | I think football is the most emotional game to play. What I remember most vividly was putting on the pads before a high-pitched, rivalry-laced game and the bonding of teammates preparing to do battle. I played defensive end, with responsibility for sniffing out the screen my way. In one particular game, I saw the key, the tackle hit and glanced out to the flats, the back circled over. I watched the QB, trying not to show him I knew the play. He looked for the back, brought the ball up, started to throw and saw me. He held on to the ball, I darted, certain that I had a 65 yard interception return for a touchdown. He waited for me to go by, threw the screen behind me, which went for a touchdown. We lost the game 6-0. Damn.
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 | swangmaster8 (3)
01/01/2005 | Nothng better. Than a great game between two schools that hate each other. Playing their hearts out. These are the things that make highschool great.
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 | jakemr33 (6)
11/16/2004 | When I was in high school, if you played football you were considered a god. If any of you have seen the movie Varsity Blues that was my high school. We beat the crap out of everybody we played. In all 4 years of high school football, our particular class was 42-2.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (162)
09/27/2004 | This would be a five but my school got the ____ beat out of them too often.
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 | jgls (14)
09/26/2004 | i played freshman and sophomore year. i was too slow to play running back or receiver, too uncoordinated to play quarterback, and too small to play on the line or at linebacker so the coach put me at safety. when i wasn't taken out by a bigger player on the other team i had the wonderful opportunity to open up a can of whoop ass on anyone who had the audacity to run or catch the ball near me. laying out another player is one of the most satisfying feelings i have ever had in my life. i was never out to hurt anyone, but if i could knock the daylights out of someone, it made my day. i quit after my 2nd year because the new coach made ivan the terrible look like richard simmons.
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 | ClassicTVFan47 (38)
03/29/2004 | I did go to some school football games...but only to flirt with the cheerleaders and talk to other girls I knew in the stands! Who cares about those dumb jocks? :D
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| samson42284 (0)
03/05/2004 | the funnest and greatest sport ever invented. the quality of high school football is the purest and most exciting to watch
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 | oldiesmusicfan101 (10)
02/05/2004 | I play football right now and it's great. It's taught me to work hard among other things.
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 | irishgit (155)
12/04/2003 | I played a couple of seasons in the worst program in history (in terms of w/l) loved it. Played community ball from 10 years old and a couple years of college before my knees went south. My son plays cornerback at his high school, and I love what it has done for his pride, confidence and work ethic.
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