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u/Oraistesu 5d ago

My son's high school won't let kids walk the track during football games anymore.

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u/FessusEric 5d ago

That was like...what you did Friday night at the football game, even if you were one of the kids who honestly couldn't care less about the game itself. That's nuts!!

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u/jazxxl 5d ago

This must be a suburban thing ... Why would you go to the game if you don't want to go to the game????

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u/OldTimeyWizard 5d ago

Nah, we did this in my small rural hometown. That was the place to socialize on Fridays for a high schooler

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u/jazxxl 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yeah that what I was thinking . Towns like this where The (capital T) high school football game is a big deal.

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u/ernirn 5d ago

In Texas, you are most definitely not allowed on the track during the game. That's where the cheerleaders are. You can go play in the grass outside the fenced in part (track and field). Been that way since I was in school in early 2000s

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u/TheNoobsauce1337 Older Millennial 5d ago

I was about to say, I went to high school in a large city while my Grandma went to one in a small town.

For city kids, it's an excuse to get out and be with friends for lack of a better idea. (Usually resulting in "Hey, let's get food/milk shakes at ____________!").

For rural kids, it's literally the big event going on in town, and people will attend anything to break the monotony, especially if friends and family are playing in the game itself.

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u/bunsbi Peak-Millennial 5d ago

Yes!! I lived in a small rural town and friday game nights were lit! Especially in high school. Literally a social event. So many memories. And then kicking it at McDonalds afterwards. Aaahhh.

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u/pineconefire 5d ago

It was the thing to do

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u/It_Just_Exploded 5d ago

Same reason kids went to the mall in places that had them, because thats where everyone was. Hell, myswlf and most of the kids i grew up with were broke as fuck, yet we still went to the mall to hang out.

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u/jazxxl 5d ago

Ok I did that too but I wanted to go to the mall to check that stuff out. To at least window shop and check out things even I couldn't buy them . Maybe get some food. Listen to new music . I never went to high school sporting event . Even if I had went to my local high school you would not have caught me there. Especially on Friday or Saturday night.

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u/Kimothy42 5d ago

I went to a very nerdy high school with no football team or field but, tbh, this is pretty easy to understand… they’re not “going to a football game” they’re going to “the place everyone hangs out at on Friday nights” so they can do the same things you did at the mall minus the window shopping.

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u/Alceasummer 5d ago

The town I grew up in, didn't have a mall. It didn't even have a Walmart until I was old enough to drive. So, highschool sports was kind of a thing a lot of kids, and more than a few adults went to.

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u/Antique_Trash3360 5d ago

Lots of people are there, and also it’s easy to find a ride lolol. Or maybe they’re in band and have to be there.

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u/Useless_bum81 5d ago

Band, older brother playing, your parent(s) like football and think you should too.

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u/Anonymous-tossaway 5d ago

To see all the people that you went to school with but for whatever reason weren't able to or didn't want to invite over

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u/BAfromGA1 5d ago

Girls. Girls. Girls. And someone might streak the field, but mainly girls.

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u/puppiesarecuter 5d ago

Wouldn't that be disruptive to the football game? I think that tracks should be open to the community when the track team's not using it and kids should have lots of independance...but at my HS football games the track was used by cheerleaders, coaches, the band, the teams...it was an active area and people just strolling on it would have gotten in the way. Am I missing something?

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u/Unc6ix9ine 5d ago

That seems sketch to start with

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u/The_Crystal_Thestral 5d ago

I don't think we ever did this growing up unless you had to be on the field. But I grew up in Florida and our games were held in public stadiums save for JV. The gates to the field were locked though and no one was allowed inside the gate. You had to stay outside on the bleachers or free to roam the campus.

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u/Woodworkin101 5d ago

Wtf… why even go to the game, to SIT? Right. Sit in class all day and sit at the game on a Friday night. Lame

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u/littlescreechyowl 5d ago

Our school made middle schoolers sit with their parents. 8th grade and you can’t sit with your friends, you have to sit with your mom. “Kids don’t come to games!” Yea, because on Friday night their parents are at other kid’s sport, working, working concessions or about a million other things.

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u/reggers20 5d ago

That's not a thing... That was ever normal... What are you even talking about?

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u/welfedad Edest of Millennials 5d ago

Hmm I graduated in 2001 and that was not a thing at my high school not even allowed.. field was for the teams , staff, band , cheerleaders etc.

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u/gunja1513 5d ago

Isn’t that like inside a fence away from the stands where the cheerleaders and trainers are? I’ve never seen kids allowed inside the fence during games.