[Jeremiah Johnson]

I guess I'm a little old school but I'm a huge football fan, too. I haven't missed a game in a long time. All of the local stations here have segments for high school football. No big deal. It's news and channel 6, NBC affiliate, has a really great segment that I enjoy watching called "The Highlight Zone," but it's more about the fans than the football and that's probably why I like it the most.

I talked to my girlfriend lastnight about this and she is the manager for the football team. She told me before about the coach winning the tunnel and I thought, "Awesome," then she told me how they were trying to get fireworks and the smoke and I got really annoyed because the money should be put in better places. Then I saw the endzone painted Friday night and thought the money was being wasted. And THEN, they are going to paint more than just the endzones for the homecoming game. I hope this attracts more people but I highly doubt it will. The best way to get people to attend your games is to perform well.

Maybe I've thought about this all the wrong way but I compared this situation to the other schools in their conference and the schools that had to drop away from the conference because of lowering student populations, and the other schools' fields are in utter dismay while Sherrard has a brand new (I can't remember the $$) sports complex.