Not sure how it is in other states, but in rural Indiana everyone in town lives and breathes High School football. When the team does well, the town thrives, people are happy, women bake homemade apple pies, and kids don't talk back to their parents.
So it was again this year in Lowell, Indiana. Our little town, with just over 6,000 residents sent our football team to Indianapolis for the 4A State Championship game. We won state in 2005 and were not even expected to do well this year as we had a young team. But we kept coming back from behind to win our games, and we went to the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis yesterday.
Well, all is not well, our little school was defeated. Tears were shed. Cheerleaders did not put out. Husbands drank too much and beat their wives. To make things worse, we were beat out by a big city school. Evansville Reitz, the school where Dargo's kids learn to pick on small town kids, defeated Lowell. Actually beat them badly. So the big city kids have bragging rights and the small town kids went home in shame. Heck Dargo told me they have more people showing up for games than we have living in & around town.
Still it was good to see Dargo, even if only for a few minutes, on neutral territory in Indianapolis.
I really is amazing how whole towns come together for events like this. I don't know if other states are like Indiana when it comes to High School sports, but we had police escorts down to the Hoosier Dome, and while I am guessing, I'd say we had close to 1/2 of the town's population filling our side of the stands at the Hoosier Dome. Yea, we lost. But we made it to state with a young team. There is always next year.
So it was again this year in Lowell, Indiana. Our little town, with just over 6,000 residents sent our football team to Indianapolis for the 4A State Championship game. We won state in 2005 and were not even expected to do well this year as we had a young team. But we kept coming back from behind to win our games, and we went to the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis yesterday.
Well, all is not well, our little school was defeated. Tears were shed. Cheerleaders did not put out. Husbands drank too much and beat their wives. To make things worse, we were beat out by a big city school. Evansville Reitz, the school where Dargo's kids learn to pick on small town kids, defeated Lowell. Actually beat them badly. So the big city kids have bragging rights and the small town kids went home in shame. Heck Dargo told me they have more people showing up for games than we have living in & around town.
Still it was good to see Dargo, even if only for a few minutes, on neutral territory in Indianapolis.
I really is amazing how whole towns come together for events like this. I don't know if other states are like Indiana when it comes to High School sports, but we had police escorts down to the Hoosier Dome, and while I am guessing, I'd say we had close to 1/2 of the town's population filling our side of the stands at the Hoosier Dome. Yea, we lost. But we made it to state with a young team. There is always next year.
