Tonight I went to the Triple A Texas State Championship game at the SMU stadium. The gentleman I'm dating was a cameraman for the jumbotron show so I was able to watch the game from inside the press box.
The game was between Carthage, TX Bulldawgs (population 6,000) and Graham, TX Steers (pop 10,000). It was won by Carthage in the last minute, 13 to 12. This was their lowest scoring game for the entire season, usually scoring 40+ points, so Graham held their own despite being a much smaller team. What was amazing about this to me was the number of people who traveled great distances to watch these young men play. Carthage is just over the Texas border from Shreveport, LA and Graham is on the other side of the state near Wichita Falls. No one must be at home as they estimated 9000 in the stadium - more then the SMU football games!
Graham would have won it except their kicker had a blocked extra pt kick, a missed extra pt kick and 2 times with 4th and goal they went for the touchdown instead of a field goal. Apparently their kicker is kind of eradict He has never played football having played soccer all his life . When his family moved to little Graham from Pennsylvania and they didn't have soccer he decided to try football. All in all it was a cultural phenonmenon.
