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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a former player, former coach and current father of a high school football player.  In my opinion football is the very best highschool experience that any student can have.  This is for the simple reason that no other activity is so central to the life of the school community.

Friday nights football games are packed - with  over 50% of the students attending.  There is no other event like that - even graduation will only have a quarter of the student population.

No sport will have a student participation level as high as football.  With 22 starting positions back ups and scout teams - the football program (freshman, JV and varsity) has well over 100 players.   In my son’s school the program has 165 players and 15 student managers.  In a school of 2400, over 10% of the male population is a football player.

Finally, no sport or activity will have the community cachet of football- people wanna know about football people wanna talk about football.

Let your son play - good luck. [/quote]

Not everywhere in the DMV.  Our football games are horribly attended by students (and barely attended at all).  Maybe the suburban VA schools are different.

The WCAC local games are well attended but the games where they play national opponents kind of blow as not many fans from Ohio or Georgia make the trip.

Basketball is by far and away the sport that brings out the students and the community…but the DMV often has 5-6 teams ranked in the top 50 nationally in any given year.[/quote]

I’m not that poster but the other who’s kid played youth but never got on the field in high school.  He went to Madison in Vienna.  He maybe played 5 minutes total his entire freshman year in games.  HS games are packed.  It’s a very popular sport.  [/quote]

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