This is a football stadium here in Texas.
It seats 18,000 people and cost $60 million to build.
It boasts a 26' high-definition video screen.
It was just completed in 2012 and its first game sold out.
It's a high school football stadium. That's right, a high school football stadium located in Allen, Texas, which is the city where we bought our house. And since it is the only high school in Allen, this is the school Nolan will attend in approximately 11 years.
Interestingly enough, this is not the largest high school stadium in Texas.
The thing that is most amazing to me is that this stadium is larger than football stadiums. Obviously, Big Ten schools have got Allen beat by tens of thousands, but what about other football teams?
Eastern Washington University (home of the 2011 - NCAA Div. I champions), located just outside of Spokane, has a seating capacity of roughly 8,000.
South Dakota State University, which I attended for 2-1/2 years and occasionally made an appearance in class, has a seating capacity of about 15,000.
And the University of Minnesota-Duluth, known for its stellar hockey program (perhaps not its football team), only seats 4,500.
It appears that if Brian and I want Nolan to be a football player when he's in high school, we should probably start enrolling him in intensive preschool camps so that he can have a mediocre chance at becoming a third-string, JV quarterback when he's 17.
I think we'll pass.
(Another link with more information)
http://seattletimes.com/html/sports/2019027499_apusfridaynightpalace.html
Nolan should be in Friday Night Lights. That's all.
ReplyDeleteI will tell him that.
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