When crowds packed the OB for HS games...

[305 MOUNTAIN MAN]

This SOB father

all time Miami scum politician

 

[Hold My Beer]

We moved into the Miami area in the early 1970s.
It's football culture was not unlike what you see today in the small southern and Texas towns.
Youth football was pretty big too.
There was an Optimist football game played at the OB which also drew alot of folks, between 20 and 30k.

Makes sense as Miami was indisputably a Southern town at those days

 

[Hold My Beer]

I feel like community investment/camaraderie/pride began to fall as South Florida became more and more transient.
Gentrification, people moving in from other states, etc etc etc...
Most of the people who live here AREN'T EVEN FROM HERE. So why would there by any community pride and fanhood?

Spot on as usual coach.

A few years back, I had this conversation with an friend of mine who'd grown up in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960's where there were three black high schools before integration. I mentioned all this transferring you see kids (with parental approval) doing these days.

He just shook his head. "That wouldn't have happened back then. If you left to transfer to one of the two rival schools, you better never come back home. If you did, guys would've been waiting on the corner for you."