Damn....
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/10/texas-town-oks-63m-for-high-school-football-stadium.html

A bit different then the steamroller sand field I played on in high school at Lincoln Bowl.
SF

Wow, times have changed.

Stadium bowl was my homefield... as old as it is, I wonder how much that would cost to build in todays dollars

John Kitna is down there reaping the benefits of coaching high school football in Texas. Couldn't live there for any amount of money.

Played there as well Piper.
Lincoln Bowl was brutal though.
The sand would wear your skin off and get under your pads. Tons of staph infections from that crap.
People still don't believe me that they used to hose the field down before the games so the sand was wet then roll it with a steamroller.

To bad they no longer have the pre-season grid go round for all the Tacona schools.
SF

The Lincoln Bowl had turf and rubber pellets by the time I played there. Cool stadium.

I'm showing my age....;)
It is a very nice facility now.
SF

what years did you play?

Piper,
76-78
SF

you're an old timer 86 for me

...and people in my town can't get behind a new stadium because all the old farts want it built in a floodplain...for twice the amount of money in a better location.

Different places, different priorities I guess. I mean come on its just $1million+, chump change in comparison 63million+.

If you live in Elma, you know how some people just can't let go of the past. Even when the field conditions get so bad that people tear ACLs because the field is soup.

What team did you play for piper?

Stadium Tigers, but the only scoring I did was on Ruston Way after the games

As I remember, we had a hell of a loosing streak in the 80's, something like 0-fer four or more years in a row...

I got to sit on the bench with Momma Tahoma and watch the rest of the team kick your butts. Hey, I might have even got on the field against Stadium.... Last great year of a dynasty - we lost in a badly played playoff game that year (1986). Team went of the cliff since then.

LOL... what a small world!

I was at Lincoln '79-81. Small world. Played football 1st 2 years. Couldn't handle any more 'Newhardt'.

Should have noted I didn't go to Lincoln....Foss Falcon here.
SF

what do I look like? KK?


BTW, you're still an asshole!

So what was it like to play in leather helmets?

I've seen some of you in person and thank goodness I played in the era of face mask technology. Watch out for that sneaky forward pass guys....

So you've seen Hank?

KK invented football

He was the technical adviser for Caligula.
Not the movie, the era.

soooooo old.. i graduated from the 2000's........

I'm waiting for dots from the village idiot.

that explains a lot

is your daughter single bondo?

nope at work. thought that would get a rise out of you lol.

Like she'd have any interest in a punk ass donkus like you, twatty.

Hit the fuckin' road, junior.

fuk off Keebler.

lol

Go play in the street, kid.

Tumwater T-Birds.

State Champions: 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2010
State Runner-up: 2012, 2013, 2015
14 Semi-Final Appearances
26 State Playoff Qualifiers
26 League Championships

My school's better then your school.

Blah, Blah, Blah.

Get back to work, you fukin spermcells....

Except you and Redhook, Frank....... because.......well.......you know

I was there watching Stonefish scraping skin off his arms and eating dirt. It had to be relief when he played for the Huskies. He graduated from dirt to cement like AstroTurf. I love to tell the story of taking my wife to Stonefish's high school games. She would look at him playing middle linebacker and he being quite a bit bigger than the rest of the players and mowing guys down she would say, "Are you sure it's fair? He's bigger than them." Of course when he got to the UW everyone was of proportionate size. Go DAWGS!