High school football loses its virginity on Saturday (SF Chronicle)

This column is missing a few things (an interview with Jimmy Claussen, for one), but IMHO accurately depicts Saturday as a notable bullet point on the prep football historical timeline:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/15/MNGSBN09301.DTL&hw=nevius&sn=001&sc=1000

thoughts?

 

Ship sailed on this many, many moons ago. California is just catching up.

 

This is one of those cases where I think the reporter would really be surprised that high school finals are televised statewide in Wisconsin. And Washington. And Iowa. And North Dakota.

Buh-rother.

 

Another Capt. Louis Renault column.

 

"California, which has 1,433 high schools, was the last holdout in the nation to stage a state high school football playoff."

Not true. Massachusetts has Eastern and Central/West championships, but no state titles.

 

and what about Pennsylvania?

 

Wisconsin? Iowa? North Dakota? Where's them?

 

Doesn't New York have two for each like Mass?
NYC/Long Island and everybody else.

Have/has, what's the dif?

 

I think the only bullet point it makes on the prep football historical timeline is it is about damn time California started having state championship games.
How does having state championship games commercialize high school football? What is the point of sports if you don't have a final game to determine the championship?
Also, it is funny how this writer acts like California high school football is the best in the nation. I think some teams from Texas might have something to say about that, not to threadjack.

 

My father and I love watching the high school championship games on television the day after Thanksgiving ... When it's being broadcast on public access and there's only one sponsor, it's far from being an overcommercialized thing ...

 

Texas has more high schools than California and is a bigger state in area, but has still been able to hold state championships in every classification since (I believe) 1972. What took you so long, California?

I'm glad that De La Salle is being made to earn a state championship on the field, for a change. Do they win 150 in a row if they go six rounds deep every year?

 

californians concerned about overcommercialization is a very funny premise.