as a current highschool football player..

yoru football team sucks

You should love this movie, like I love Hackers, a totally silly, unrealistic, and just plain wrong portrayal of computer geeks, but one that manages to keep one entertained by its naive quaintness.

I was just wondering what state your from and how big your school was? 2A, 3A, 4A, etc.?

I'm from a small 2A school in Alabama and although it was a little overly dramatic, it was pretty much spot on. Southern towns take their football super serious.

At the end of my Junior year, me and three friends (all of us played football) were riding around one night and decided to mess with one of our teachers. We loaded up a huge ROAD CLOSED sign at the end of the road she lived on and pushed it out so that it was blocking her driveway. Then, one of the guys, for some stupid reason, pulled his hunting rifle out of the backseat and shot out her street light.
When she found out who it was, she call the District Attorney. It was looking pretty bad for us. Then, the head coach called us all into his office individually and told us he'd been on the phone with the D.A. all morning trying to "fix" this. He said if we gave up the one that shot the gun, he could help us out. We declined. Luckily, our teacher understood that while really stupid and immature, we didn't mean any harm and she didn't go through with charges.

This is just one of many instances where being a football player has lead to some crazy stuff being swept under the rug. I mean the coach was talking to the D.A. to get us out trouble involving a gun.

I do agree about the coaches, but most of the game stuff is merely a montage so, even to the most techinal, analytical movie watcher like myself, it's nothing to get up in arms about.

I closing, I think maybe you need to accept that just because you PLAY football, doesn't make you the fore most authority on the subject. Especially, when it comes to places like 'West Canaan, Texas' where they LIVE football.

This is a movie. Not real life. It's not supposed to portray real life high school football. It's supposed to make money in the movies and entertain.

A good cliche movie: mean coach, town/parents/kids who know nothing except football, but you're right. Much of what occured would have meant a coach or player dismissal. But in small-town America, especially the southwest (film location) football is pretty much king and good players are treated that way. Just look at current Texas Tech--Harrell and Crabtree are both treated more like rock stars than students. But on and off field antics (shouting at the coach and such)...bench for sure.

BUT....several points of contention--

1. A high school coach who has 23 district titles must not have much competition. They are a "running team?" You can't have 23 years of good offensive line and talented running backs, so...to gain that many titles there has to be a passing attack.

2. The last scenes just woud not have happened. No other coaches? NONE? NOT A ONE? The school administration would not have let that happen and AN ADULT would have had to step in and run the team. But first, the coach wouldn't have walked away like that. One minute he is a King and the next he walks away in shame? Sorry hard to buy. Besides, who was Lance talking to on a headset? His mom?

3. The play where Lance was hurt would have been stopped long before the player got to him. Billy Bob fell forward and passed out before the ball was snapped....motion. You think the refs are quick in college with a motion flag? All you have to do in high school is "blink" and the flags come out. Done to prevent just what happened in the film.

4. Hook and Ladder won't work with a lineman, unless the ball is fumbled. He is ineligible to go past the scrimmage line until the ball is thrown, and then it is too far to run to make the play work.

But all this aside, could we see Miss Davis again? PLEASE!?

We only had two coaches total at my 1A high school. When I was in eleventh grade the head coach had a baby (well, his wife did) that had complications. He missed at least four games. So for half of our season we only had one coach at the games. We sucked terribly, by the way. My eighth grade year the team went 3-7. Their record was pretty much the same until my Senior year when they finally turned it around and went 7-3. Then... everyone graduated and they went back to sucking. I don't think they've had a winning season in the last thirteen years.

Actually steviekaps9013 You must not play football in a texas High School it is like this in most schools in texas. In Texas football is a religion even read the book Friday Night Lights about the Real Permian High Panthers. This movie is not that far fetched if you take off your blinders go play for a highschool in texas then come talk to me and i would know this cause i played high school football in the state of texas.

Dude, it's a movie................