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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 12:59 pm 
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Hoosiers glorified high school athletics and it was celebrated. That was the reason I mentioned it.


That's one thing that sucks about the class system. You'll never have a Hebron again. The Judson brothers fillin' it up!

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IIRC, one of the largest crowds ever to watch a football game in Solider Field/Chicago/Illinois was for a CPS Prep Bowl (115-120K) in the 30's.


Bill DeCorrevont and Austin beat Leo.


Top High School football crowds ever in IL.

No surprise that three of the games involve Fenwick.


[1.] 110,000, Chicago (Austin) (26) vs. Chicago (Leo) (0), Nov. 27, 1937 (Estimates ranged from 90,000 to 130,000), Prep Bowl
[2.] 95,000, Chicago (Leo) (46) vs. Chicago (Tilden) (13), Nov. 29, 1941, Prep Bowl
[3.] 91,328, Oak Park (Fenwick) (40) vs. Chicago (Schurz) (0), Dec. 1, 1962, Prep Bowl
[4.] 85,000, Chicago (Fenger) (13) vs. Chicago (Weber) (7), Nov. 30, 1946, Prep Bowl
[5.] 83,750, Chicago (Weber) (14) vs. Chicago (Lane) (12), Dec 2, 1961, Prep Bowl
[6.] 81,270, Chicago (St. Rita) (42) vs. Chicago (C. Vocational) (7), Nov. 30, 1963, Prep Bowl
[7.] 80,000, Chicago (Fenger) (13) vs. Chicago (Mt. Carmel) (0), Nov 26, 1938, Prep Bowl
[7.] 80,000, Evanston (St. George) (19) vs. Chicago (Phillips) (14), Nov 27, 1943, Prep Bowl
[7.] 80,000, Oak Park (Fenwick) (20) vs. Chicago (Tilden) (6), Dec. 1, 1945, Prep Bowl
[10.] 75,400, Wilmette (Loyola) (33) vs. Chicago (C. Vocational) (13), Dec. 4, 1965, Prep Bowl
[11.] 75,000, Chicago (Austin) (19) vs. Oak Park (Fenwick) (19), Nov. 28, 1936, Prep Bowl

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 1:14 pm 
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I can "bear" it

You saying you would watch it naked?


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The coverage is reflective of the interest. I attended an elementary school final four tournament last year. Elementary school basketball receives no coverage yet at least 500 people attended the game anyway.


creepy af

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Hoosiers glorified high school athletics and it was celebrated. That was the reason I mentioned it.


High school athletics are great. That is an entirely different statement from mine

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Everyone's favorite romantic high school basketball movie "Hoosiers",
was based exactly on this very thing.

You can turn pro in tennis at 14 play in Wimbledon and the vast majority thinks you are some sort of prodigy, but let someone gain notoriety from playing high school basketball and its deplorable?


there are a few assumptions in your last statement and a thinly veiled accusation

I think I have been pretty consistent that I find ESPN's expanding coverage of LLWS to be similarly grotesque.

There are so very few cases where a child handles fame well that it is remarkable when one ends up a well adjusted adult.

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Everyone's favorite romantic high school basketball movie "Hoosiers",
was based exactly on this very thing.

You can turn pro in tennis at 14 play in Wimbledon and the vast majority thinks you are some sort of prodigy, but let someone gain notoriety from playing high school basketball and its deplorable?


there are a few assumptions in your last statement and a thinly veiled accusation

I think I have been pretty consistent that I find ESPN's expanding coverage of LLWS to be similarly grotesque.

There are so very few cases where a child handles fame well that it is remarkable when one ends up a well adjusted adult.



I don't know what the thinly veiled accusation might be but I fail to see the outrage over 16 and 17 yr olds receiving coverage in a local newspaper. Even the ESPN rankings and coverage doesnt bother me, because if I'm going to be outraged over that then I will have to be outraged each and every time someone not of legal age receives publicity.


It doesn't bother me when child actors act, nor does it bother me when teenage gymnasts participate in the olympics. It also doesn't bother me when they perform in talent shows. Are we outraged when teenagers perform on "Jeopardy" also.

You open up an entire can of worms when you begin making it immoral to cover high school athletics. That is my point.

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If they're not covered, how would we know about them? I only get to a couple games each season.

Although I agree that there's something obscene about the way ESPN covers the LLWS.

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I do think that the "creepy" factor increases according to the age of the child. High School age is not really creepy. I don't know if watching an 8th grader play basketball is creepy either. Beauty pageant watching of anyone under the age of 21 may qualify though.

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I do think that the "creepy" factor increases according to the age of the child. High School age is not really creepy. I don't know if watching an 8th grader play basketball is creepy either. Beauty pageant watching of anyone under the age of 21 may qualify though.


There's more similarities than differences in a beauty competition and a sports competition.


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long time guy wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
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Everyone's favorite romantic high school basketball movie "Hoosiers",
was based exactly on this very thing.

You can turn pro in tennis at 14 play in Wimbledon and the vast majority thinks you are some sort of prodigy, but let someone gain notoriety from playing high school basketball and its deplorable?


there are a few assumptions in your last statement and a thinly veiled accusation

I think I have been pretty consistent that I find ESPN's expanding coverage of LLWS to be similarly grotesque.

There are so very few cases where a child handles fame well that it is remarkable when one ends up a well adjusted adult.



I don't know what the thinly veiled accusation might be but I fail to see the outrage over 16 and 17 yr olds receiving coverage in a local newspaper. Even the ESPN rankings and coverage doesnt bother me, because if I'm going to be outraged over that then I will have to be outraged each and every time someone not of legal age receives publicity.


It doesn't bother me when child actors act, nor does it bother me when teenage gymnasts participate in the olympics. It also doesn't bother me when they perform in talent shows. Are we outraged when teenagers perform on "Jeopardy" also.

You open up an entire can of worms when you begin making it immoral to cover high school athletics. That is my point.


I never said the games shouldn't receive any coverage.

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I do think that the "creepy" factor increases according to the age of the child. High School age is not really creepy. I don't know if watching an 8th grader play basketball is creepy either. Beauty pageant watching of anyone under the age of 21 may qualify though.


There's more similarities than differences in a beauty competition and a sports competition.



I'm sure Dan Bernstein and Terry Boers would definitely be able to find more similarities than differences.

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Are we outraged when teenagers perform on "Jeopardy" also.



This Jeopardy viewer is. The Teen Tournament sucks.

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Conns hates anything that has to do with CPS.


I like long time Guy.

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Does the lighting in Curie's gym still make your skin look sort of purplish like it did in the early 80s?


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Does the lighting in Curie's gym still make your skin look sort of purplish like it did in the early 80s?


Yep.

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Does the lighting in Curie's gym still make your skin look sort of purplish like it did in the early 80s?


Yep.


That's just weird.

Fuck St. Rita, too, forever and always just because they're St. Rita, but fuck them because it was 45 degrees in their old gym.

Actually I don't really have anything against St Rita, I was just conditioned as a ute to think that way.


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Does the lighting in Curie's gym still make your skin look sort of purplish like it did in the early 80s?


Yep.


That's just weird.

Fuck St. Rita, too, forever and always just because they're St. Rita, but fuck them because it was 45 degrees in their old gym.

Actually I don't really have anything against St Rita, I was just conditioned as a ute to think that way.


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Does the lighting in Curie's gym still make your skin look sort of purplish like it did in the early 80s?


:lol: True.

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Does the lighting in Curie's gym still make your skin look sort of purplish like it did in the early 80s?


Yep.


That's just weird.

Fuck St. Rita, too, forever and always just because they're St. Rita, but fuck them because it was 45 degrees in their old gym.

Actually I don't really have anything against St Rita, I was just conditioned as a ute to think that way.


The only thing I ever envied about Rita was they had a football stadium.

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Does the lighting in Curie's gym still make your skin look sort of purplish like it did in the early 80s?


Yep.


That's just weird.

Fuck St. Rita, too, forever and always just because they're St. Rita, but fuck them because it was 45 degrees in their old gym.

Actually I don't really have anything against St Rita, I was just conditioned as a ute to think that way.


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The high school has their own pizza delivery driver on staff?

Some of these schools just have too much damn money.

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What is the hierarchy in those southside catholic schools?

1. Mt. Carmel
2. Brother Rice
3. St. Rita

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What is the hierarchy in those southside catholic schools?

Far Superior St. Laurence :lol:
1. Mt. Carmel
2. Brother Rice
3. St. Rita

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I was thinking Laurence might be after Rice and before Rita, Mike. :wink:


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I was thinking Laurence might be after Rice and before Rita, Mike. :wink:



At least we can all agree Marist is the farist. :lol:

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I was thinking Laurence might be after Rice and before Rita, Mike. :wink:



At least we can all agree Marist is the farist. :lol:


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What is the hierarchy in those southside catholic schools?


1. Joliet Catholic










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I was thinking Laurence might be after Rice and before Rita, Mike. :wink:



At least we can all agree Marist is the farist. :lol:


I never think of Lawrence as being in that group but I suppose it is.

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