ChampionSplit: A Historical Perspective

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I have no clue who De La Salle football is, and I'm a football fan.

De La Salle is a difficult standard to use as it's probably the most outstanding example in high school sports, but I'm not a football fan, and I've heard of it. (Incidentally, they're apparently from California, which probably skews the recognition over here on the east coast.) But let's not pretend that either of our anecdotes are reasonable substitute for evidence here. De La Salle football's feature length theater released movie grossed over $30 million dollars total and hit #5 on its opening weekend. Richard's not remotely off-base with this assertion. I actually quite like the analogy; I hadn't thought of teams being celebrities before this connection.