Oh, this is tragic, people. While I await the judgment of Rawlins Gilliland, this don't look good a-tall:
The Southlake Carroll Dragons, the state's premier high school football team, are nationally renowned for college-level offenses, suffocating defenses and talented athletes.And starting this year, Dragon fans can watch their highly ranked team from the stands while clenching chopsticks and munching on California rolls and other sushi delicacies.
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[Buzz Bissinger] wrote Friday Night Lights, a best-selling book and now NBC TV show about the 1988 Odessa Permian Panthers."It sounds like Texas high school football has gone soft," he said from his home in Philadelphia. "The idea of serving sushi at a Texas high school football game just flies in the face of everything I know about Texas high school football.
"What are they going to serve next, penne pasta?" Mr. Bissinger said. "Let's get back to good ol' fashioned Texas barbecue."
Sushi at a Texas high school football game?! Git a rope.
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>>>> But THIS IS TEXAS!!
NO, Rod, Southlake IS NOT TEXAS. Ok, geographically, yes it's in Texas. But the new money I told you about earlier? They have all moved here from out of state. Trust me - I grew up less than 5 miles away. When I was a freshman in high school (1987), they had 5,000 people and a Dairy Queen. Today -- 25,000 people and they have a Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma, Anthropologie, & everything else. Those extra 20,000 people did not come from Dime Box or Cuervo or even Grapevine. They came from up north. They don't know any better than to serve sushi at football games.
Can't you get worked up about Condoleeza Rice's trip to Georgia or something?
Meh. The mistaken treatment of -Texas- high school football as somehow being the be all end all of high school football has grown tiresome. Come on up to the birth-state of football to see how it's really done. O-H-I-O!
As someone who grew up in Ohio, lived for awhile in Philadelphia, and now lives in Texas, I have really come to understand the truth of the saying: In the Northeast, football is a cultural event; in the Midwest, it's war; and in the South, it's religion.
Blech.
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How much 'manly' food is even.. not unhealthy?
Um ... yeah. Isn't that the point? ;-)
Go to Sodalak's in Snook, Texas, a little way outside College Station, for the ultimate artery clogger: chicken-fried bacon. ;-)
Aww, and here I thought the deep fried mars bar, or the 'baconator' was bad enough. Eww. (And I am NOT a health nut, takes a lot for that.)
At Sodalak's, an order of chicken-fried bacon even comes with a side of cream gravy!
As a junior high student in the late 80's, my high school lost an area playoff game in the final seconds to this never heard of Dallas area school. That was when they were in 3A (we have 5 here in TX). I think I had about 3 orders of nachos at that game. Time have changed.
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