The Importance Of High School Football

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Every town across america is prideful for some aspect of their community, some more than others. Big Cities like New York city, Chicago and Boston have a never ending list of community interest and pride in many different matters from city infrastructures to education and even culture diversities. In contrast to all of this Oddessa a small town in texas that only has one particular interest and that is football. The town’s and its resident’s pride all lay on the high school football team much more than the history of the town itself. In the light of this small close knit community the town supports all the little programs it has, alike other small towns.
To start of with Odessa does not have much going on in town. Economically its glory days have passed. when the town was almost deemed a failure because it could not attract people infertile lands. In
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Dalton is an all american small town which only has one city school which only emphasizes the need for all the townspeople to come attend the games on friday nights. My town would even consider bending the rules a little to get the edge upon others for instances a couple years back Dalton high school would recruit star players from other school districts and giving them a fake residents address and letting them attend dalton to play football. Dalton got caught and ended up forfeiting all their wins that years involving those players. Dalton places a great value a sports because they have a record for winning for example having the number 1 nationally ranked soccer team for two years in a row. Dalton wants to build a legacy like everyone else ,but it does not value high school sports as highly as oddessa did. To explain Dalton is a bigger town than odessa it has a lot more going on which keeps the people occupied in a lot of different

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