# Do you still follow your/your family's HS football team? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 26, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937 "2010-11-26T01:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/1 "2010-11-26T01:11:00Z")
If they played today, how did they do? I check on: my immediate family’s, and cousin’s, and aunt’s. My HS lost a close on, my dad won, and my mom lost. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/2 "2010-11-26T01:19:54Z")
nope. Didn’t really follow them when I went to HS so why now a few decades later? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/3 "2010-11-26T01:28:30Z")
Nope. I like football, and loosely follow my college team, but couldn’t care less about high school. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/4 "2010-11-26T14:13:09Z")
Sort of. When I’m back home for Thanksgiving, we try to go to a game if they’re still in the playoffs. They play for the state title tomorrow. Go Hawklets! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/5 "2010-11-26T14:23:48Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > nope. Didn’t really follow them when I went to HS so why now a few decades later? Ditto for me. I don’t watch sports to begin with and didn’t care for most of the people in my HS. In my four years I think I may have gone to one game. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/6 "2010-11-26T14:44:10Z")
No - I haven’t even been to the town I grew up in for at almost 15 years. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/7 "2010-11-26T14:50:14Z")
Nope. My HS football team _sucked_ when I went there and I can’t see any reason why they wouldn’t still. They’re \*\*really \*\*bad. Like 1 win every other season bad. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/8 "2010-11-26T16:19:12Z")
No…my high school ceased to exist nearly 20 years ago. I went to a Catholic high school in Green Bay, WI (one of three at the time), and, in the early 1990s, due to declining attendance, the diocese closed all three schools, then re-formed them as one school. Technically, that new school considers me to be an alumnus (as all three old schools are considered to have been “merged” into the new school), but I don’t feel any real loyalty or interest in the new school. ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/9 "2010-11-26T16:32:38Z")
yes, absolutely. of course coming from central/south texas there is very little to do on friday nights if the spurs aren’t playing - hence high school football. it probably helps that my team is now actually half way successful and typically gets a write up in the sports page on a weekly basis (along with every other durn team in this city). seriously 60 percent of the sports page on saturdays and 40 percent on sundays have to do with high school sports. btw, GO MULES, kick callallen’s butt. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/10 "2010-11-26T19:00:15Z")
My high school has never had a football team. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/11 "2010-11-26T21:29:44Z")
During high school football season I’ll check the local rag’s website from time to time (like, once or twice during the season) to see if the boys are competitive. They usually aren’t. FUNNY (and by “funny” I mean, “really sad”) story: the varsity football team of the high school that I went to won one game during the season when I was in 8th grade. They didn’t win again until the first game of my senior year. That’s right: we went 0-35 over four seasons. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Wolverine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba9def/32.png) [@Wolverine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolverine)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/12 "2010-11-27T03:31:40Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Nope. My HS football team _sucked_ when I went there and I can’t see any reason why they wouldn’t still. They’re \*\*really \*\*bad. Like 1 win every other season bad. This. But I can’t see me following my HS team anyways. I love sports but don’t care about HS at all. College and Pro only. Grew up in SE Michigan BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/13 "2010-11-27T06:04:13Z")
Didn’t really until this year. Then the local newspaper started streaming 3-4 high school games every Friday with a little comment stream. It’s been fun on a Friday night to log on and watch all four games. So I’ve kept track of my old high school for the first time since I left. If they win tomorrow they go to the state championship game, ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-follow-your-your-familys-hs-football-team/561937/14 "2010-11-27T07:56:28Z")
I live next door to the high school I graduated from, so I keep up with the schedule so I know about traffic in my neighborhood. They just built a new stadium that I can see from my house. My friends work with the marching band and go to every game, so I go to one game a year to hang out with them and the band. Our football team wasn’t good until after I graduated in '97, then went to some championships but never took it all, and recently went back to being bad again. One of our boys is on the Browns, tho!