BRITISH COUPLE REACTS | The BEST High School Football Stadiums in America

[@catindigo9907]

I went to Stadium High School, #2 on the list. What I remember most is in P.E. class was running those stairs 3 times a week. The movie 10 things I hate about you, was filmed there. Class of '86.

[@mikesherrett8928]

PROUD MASSILLON TIGER (stadium #5). Played my high school football in that stadium 1964, 1965 and 1966. Center logo is a trade marked "OBIE" the Tiger. An anacronym for "OUR BEST IN EVERYTHING"

[@garywest748]

Ya'll play my school arch rival Valdosta Wildcats from GA

[@rickmcqueen5378]

Tom Benson Stadium and Massillion Paul Brown Stadium are located about 5 miles apart! That show you how important High School football is in Northeast Ohio.

[@ranger-1214]

Kyler Murray won the Heisman Trophy at Oklahoma and went #1 in the NFL draft, taken by the Arizona Cardinals. He also played baseball at Oklahoma and he had the choice of playing pro ball. He was the 9th overall selection in the MLB draft, by the Oakland Athletics. That made him the first player ever to be drafted in the first round of both sports. As the quarterback at Allen H.S., the team was 42-0 and won three straight state championships.

[@Imme_begin]

I went to the school that “Friday Night Lights”, (book, TV show, and movie) is based on. My Sr year we were undefeated and won State (51 years ago this fall). My brother was a captain and they went to state, but lost, and my dad filmed the games for the coaches for 32 years. You could say Texas High School football is in my blood. My grandson’s team won state his Sr. Year in 2019… totally different school and town. We love it!

[@tasmith8296]

I went to midland Lee down with them panthers go rebels!

[@brandyforsythe1882]

YES!!!!! I've been waiting for y'all to teact to this. It will help you see the build up to college football and our great love for it. ❤

[@Eloso3135]

I played on field #3, El Paso High School, twice in the 1970’s. My team, the Austin Panthers, won both games. What you don’t get a feeling for in the video is the view from the field. Looking south the lights of El Paso Texas, and Juarez Mexico are breath taking. A great place to play a game.

[@chrisswinerton9603]

Just so you know. Allen high school football did lose its first game in the new stafium 41-20, which also snapped its 84 game regular season winning streak. ❤👍

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Damn. Crazy.

[@calebk8202]

Chad Morris😂

[@shadowangel3995]

That’s nuts. 84 game winning streak.

[@andrewchristopher7138]

Living in Texas High School Football is a religion.

[@LongieR8er]

Football over education…LOL make it make sense .

[@mildredpierce4506]

That is exactly what I was going to say. I am from California in about 15 years ago some of my family moved to Texas and they were shocked at how important high school football is to Texas.

[@thseed7]

Football. Period. You're at church Thursday-Monday most weeks

[@flat_life750]

​@@mildredpierce4506yet they're not as good as California in football... lol

[@aaronlewis2501]

Yet, Florida produces better players, and athletes

[@k3w1b3an5]

On a typical Friday night in America from September thru November, there are over 7 million fans attending high school football games across the country.

[@juliaellis2046]

The joke about remembering the stadium in Alamo TX is in reference to the saying during Texas's war to separate from Mexico " Remember the Alamo!"

[@Imme_begin]

Did you mean San Antonio?

[@ecuber6878]

Performing in marching band at Tom Benson Stadium was insane. I was from a local high school that play them. Usually you can see the top of the stands when you March halftime but that stadium you can’t. It’s very weird

[@SITHJELLO]

Patrick Mahomes went to high school in Whitehouse, Texas. Texas towns are very proud of their teams-example, when my town's team went to state, the entire town pretty much shut down to support them.

[@quantumfootball]

The Paul Brown Stadium comment was about the Bengals.

[@catherinelevison3310]

I knew they’d show my neighborhood at Stadium High. Not only is the water view great you can see the 14,000 foot Mt. Rainier from there too. And it’s a castle which is rare in Washington state.

[@Rich-ri8nl]

No. 10 Round Valley HS is in small town in Northeastern Az, Eagar/Springerville Az. Its not in the desert, its elevation is actually about 7,000 ft. Lower southern part of Az is desert but northern part is above 5,000 ft.

[@andrewchristopher7138]

I've been to all the Texas locations.

[@ST-ov8cm]

“Remember the Alamo” was the battle cry of the Texian army fighting against Mexico for independence. Thus the joke about Alamo Stadium.

[@Pinkfong2]

I live here and this stuff amazes me. I’d like to know the SAT scores in these schools. Amazing.

[@Imme_begin]

My brother’s team went to state and almost half of the Srs were in NHS. He stereotypes aren’t always true.

[@brucenorman8904]

The one in Washington was the set for the movie "Ten Things I hate About you"

[@dynamodan8216]

They also built Dr Pepper Park (baseball stadium) and Pizza Hut Park (major league soccer stadium). They were going for it.

[@kyle89236]

The joke about the Remembering San Antonio, is because SA is home of the Alamo. In Texas was say "Remember the Alamo" in honor of those 13 days a tiny militia handle a massive Mexican army in place. Also the Washington a lot of movies use it like 10 Things I Hate About You.

[@darrinlindsey]

It was impressive that you caught yourself on Kyle Murray being an Arizona Cardinal.

[@jasonligon5937]

This channel showed you a lot of old historical stadiums, but being in Texas, there are wayyyyy more impressive stadiums than he showed....even just in Texas.

[@kevananne]

I grew up in a very small town in west Texas (population 3400) and the obsession over football is so real, at least in my days in that area (1980s-early 2000s). There are big pep rallies Friday afternoon before the games on Friday night. Everyone in town wore red shirts (school color) and most wore ribbons that said silly little saying about that week’s games. Extra police were required at the game. Different classes or clubs ran the concession stand to make money for their organization. And oh Lord! The spectacle once a year at Homecoming was truly unbelievable!!! Looking back it was really pretty mental.

[@Terrell070]

The shots fired are at the Cincinnati Bengals. They play in Paul Brown Stadium. Paul Brown started the Cleveland Browns (the original ones) and the Cincinnati Bengals.

[@karenlobosco9646]

Tacoma, Washington State is on the shores of Puget Sound. The Sound, of course, opens onto the Pacific Ocean.

[@Vinylrebel72]

My high school played at Alamo Stadium… it was our Home Stadium, if you went to school in that district, Alamo Stadium was your home stadium… even ZZ Top performed there.

[@jamesoliver6625]

The first stadium is in Arizona. Check your encyclopedia for the rainfall totals around that town. My guess that it's domed to keep the sun out.

[@cynthiaalver]

The reference to "that other Paul Brown team in Ohio", I believe is in reference to the Cleveland Browns, NFL team.

[@spikebeans9563]

Or the Cincinnati Bengals Paul Brown Stadium.

[@spikebeans9563]

Not Cleveland, Cincy.

[@mikecalderon5251]

Allen,Tx, (#1 stadium), is about 15 miles from my house. It looks like a college field. Texas high school football is insane.

[@liltony1866]

I played football in the state of Texas as a kid. In Texas, football is a religion, and everyone attends church on Friday night.

[@Cricket2731]

And during football season, there's the scores in the sports section of the news: "Friday Night Football".

[@SilvanaDil]

Since this video came out, another amazing one has been built for a high school on Texas -- Tomball in 2021. 10K seats; huge video screen; cleanly angular.

[@OkiePeg411]

20 years of my life was spent in and around Tomball, Texas. The entire area is booming. When I was a child, it was just a small railroad town far north of Houston.

[@Imme_begin]

Are you sure only 10K? My high school was one of the first to build the really nice stadiums (now it’s mediocre compared to the ones in the Houston area), but it’s capacity when it was built in the early 80’s was 19,000. I’m just thinking your comment might be a typo. I used to live in Tomball, but hadn’t been there in probably 10+ years … I was shocked when we were driving by and I saw the new stadium. Looks BEAUTIFUL!

[@lisab.9956]

Most U.S. high school football stadiums are also used for track & you can see oval track rings around outside of football field. High school football is as well attended as college. Stadiums are usually packed for all home games.

[@mbrant4973]

I live 10 minutes from the Star and have been inside. Fantastic training facility for the Cowboys, and multi-use venue for many other sports as well as high school games.

[@WahooSerious]

About 30 yrs ago we had 32000 people show up for our semifinal game

[@ricksexton8888]

I live in a fairly small town, about 17,000 people, our highschool basketball gym holds about 8,000 people, 2 levels

[@charlieeckert4321]

5:08 "Remember the Alamo' became the battle cry for Texas independence.

[@diannepridgen5954]

I'm a native of Allen. when I was in high school we were still in the old high school/stadium and the football team sucked. I'm still amazed at how much better they've been over the last decade or so.

[@JDoors]

My High School was big on football with a lot of wins and championships when I went there. The school had its own stadium next to the school. When we played for the city championship (Chicago) the games were at Soldier Field, where the Chicago Bears play.

[@sikksotoo]

In high school, I once played inside the Walkup Skydome in Flagstaff. It's primarily a college stadium (NAU) but Flagstaff High School also plays there. Capacity is 12,000.

[@alisong826]

This is the school in the movie 10 things I hate about you 9:18 there’s also many ways to make those concrete seats more comfy, even portable cushions with backrests

[@lifes_a_journey...]

Stadium High School (#2) was right up the road from me. You might also recognize it if you watch the movie 10 things I hate about you.

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

Some high school games are such rivalries that they have to be played in a college stadium. We regularly had 10,000 people at our games back around 1970 and this was in a town with over a dozen high schools. Rivalry games would draw over 15,000 to a football game. High School basketball playoffs can draw over 20,000 if you have a few top players.

[@geoffsimpkins7650]

Hurricane Utah is very near Zion National Park. They pronounce it Hurricun.

[@wendymotogirl]

Wait, the dome was quite modern for 1991? The Pontiac silverdome opened in 1975.

[@brendahowell6796]

I remember those concrete stadiums from when I was real small. They were rough to sit on. The school use to sell cushions for us to sit on. My brother used to be a really good high school running back. Even if I was sick when i was real little I wanted to go and watch him play. 😂 Love Football.

[@delbert372]

High School football is a big deal here, and it’s not only about the kids who play the game, the kids in the band and the cheerleaders also play a big part, and also participate in their own separate competitions which involves much traveling.

[@sammurphy3343]

Unless you go to private school you have to go to the closest district to your house. Sonc divisions are entirely based on the amount of students from that high school.

[@newgrl]

Just to clarify, vast majority High Schools (HS) in the US do not have stadiums like this. Each state has a classification system for HSs based on the number of kids enrolled in the school. Most of the schools in my large, mostly barren state are 1-A Division 1 or 1-A Division 2 meaning they have 10 to 109 kids in the entire HS. As you can imagine, the football stadiums at these schools are nothing like this. Even though the entire town and parts of the surrounding farming community turn up for 8-man football (because there aren't enough kids to field an entire 11-man team) Friday Night games, there are just 3 sets of hard wooden splintery bleachers. We generally just bring our lawn chairs and pop them up around the 30 yard line. Also to clarify, my husband and I have no kids that attend this school and never have. It's just something to do in a small town on a Friday night. Now, the 4A-6A High Schools that have over 500 kids in the school will have larger, better equipped seating and amenities. But there aren't as many of those as there are the smaller schools.

[@TheBadgertwo]

10 Things I Hate About You was filmed at number 2 in Tacoma Washington. Also that's the Pacific Ocean, not a lake.

[@vincentdarrah]

Artesia, NM famous Bulldog Bowl is the ONLY High School stadium in the US that is a bowl stadium. Do a google search for the pics and info

[@newgrl]

The Alamo High School Dad Joke was referencing "Remember the Alamo!!", a rallying cry used during the Mexican-American war by the Texans after the Mexicans slaughtered everyone in The Alamo in 1836.

[@thereallyst]

-Canton, Ohio is the birthplace of American football. That is why then Hall of Fame is there and the Hall of Fame game is played in that stadium. Massillon is up the road from Canton and they are rivals. The burn you missed was because of famed coach Paul Brown who was an alum of Massillon and their football coach, who was the later the coach of the Cleveland Browns until he fell out with the owner and left to form the Cincinnati Bengals. The burn was, at the time of making this video, the Bengals sucked and their stadium is named Paul Brown Stadium, hence they do more winning at the high school stadium than the pro team in Cincinnati...

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

No, it isn't. The first professional game ever played was in Latrobe Stadium in PA. It was not in Ohio. That is a fact. "September 3, 1895 - The first professional football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0." They gave it to Cleveland over location and politics. So, they made up that it was the first. Look it up. I ran track meets there over 40 years ago. Big sign as you enter coumarate's that piece of history. No one debated its authenticity until the NFL tried to change history. I mean this is long before Cleveland got the paper title.

[@mellycook]

It usually goes College scouts come to HS to get senior football (and other sports sometimes) players to pick their school. Then pro teams scout colleges for players. So some pro guys have been playing since HS

[@wendymotogirl]

okay, at the beginning they said it was only stadiums that belonged to one school, and then they proceeded to feature one that was part of a school district that rotated between schools.

[@erics607]

A lot of the really small football programs in the US in which most American's have never even heard of before can bring in around 700-1000 fans for their really big games, and that doesn't come close to what the football programs on this list can bring in. It would probably take the really small programs 10 years to bring in the number of fans that these stadiums can hold for 1 game.

[@exeter1985]

I am fairly certain that some of the university stadiums get the largest crowds. Even more than the Profesional Stadiums. Someone I'm sure will correct me, but I think that there are 5 or 6 college stadiums that get crowds of over 100,000 fans per game! I think that the average attendance for Profesional games (NFL) is somewhere around 65,000.

[@shalakabooyaka1480]

I had to check, found some older numbers for OU, 2007-2016 they averaged right around 85k through that decade, wild

[@DystOptimist]

Bryant Denny is 100,007 and it is over capacity for many marquee games.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Would be cool to see the NFL or College football play at some of these Stadiums. If MLB made field of dreams work why not both NFL and College football

[@exeter1985]

And let's not forget the 10,000 or so who don't have tickets to get in the stadium, but tailgate (party) around the outside of the stadium.

[@DystOptimist]

@@exeter1985 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWWomqGpqcqcpA I'd say that's about 100,077. Beasleys should definitely try and make a game.

[@rohan1970b]

When he said the Alamo stadium that' you'd remember, that's because during the Texas Revolution (when Texas won its independence from Mexico), there was a massacre after the Alamo fell, (Mexicans storming the Texan defenders in the Alamo), and 1 of 2 battle cries for the battle when we won our independence was "Remember the ALAMO!" Every Texan learns about this (if not sooner) in 7th grade (12-13 yrs old) when we take Texas History.

[@tomtrostel4091]

Allen High School has a marching band with more than 800 students.

[@Cody-wd1mu]

The school I went to the stadium was full ever Friday night

[@clubin78]

I was surprised how many stadiums were outside of Texas

[@TerminalFailSafe]

In Texas, it’s usually standing room only.

[@yourenotthere]

Glad to see y'all know who Patrick Mahomes is. He grew up no more than 40 miles from us. He even played at least one High School game here.

[@Tri.dawg1]

Texas and Florida got some nice Highschool like IMG high school

[@debbylou5729]

It’s not just the parents. It’s the community. I lived in a burb of Atlanta in the the early 90’s. The middle school team was under the direction of the high school coach. He didn’t want them picking up bad ‘habits’. A newspaper tried to ‘break a big story’. A few coaches were being paid $250,000 - $400,000 per year. I don’t know what the point was. The people were like….’so?’ They’re paid through taxes from levies and the people wanted to have the best coach. My son played. He was self conscious about his weight. After tryouts he asked the coach if he should lose some weight. In the best ever southern accent the coach said, ‘why? You plan on gettin shorter?’

[@shalakabooyaka1480]

They probably fill most of the stadiums shown, HS football is so much fun to watch lol

[@Rouge261]

College football is insanely popular

[@LibertyWolf1]

Yay! A Five Points video!

[@kokomo9764]

A hell of a lot more people go to high-school games than parents!! You may not understand that at most schools, this is an event. There are local people, Alumini, as well as parents. The same is true for basketball games, especially where I live in Indiana. Regular weekly games are sold out!

[@dgpatter]

Don’t feel bad about the joke that went over your head. It is based on a famous American saying that you couldn’t know. The stadium is called the Alamo Stadium. There is an extremely famous saying here: “Remember the Alamo!” The Alamo was a mission that was attacked by the Mexican army during Texas war for independence. Every defender of the Alamo was slaughtered with no prisoners taken. Remember the Alamo immediately became a rallying cry that galvanized Texans to win independence but also get revenge.

[@jeffreyr8618]

Our local high school stadium here north of Tulsa Oklahoma seats over 10,000 and thats not even the biggest in Oklahoma. Football is a religion here in the South.

[@gracielynn9623]

In the states of Texas, Alabama, Ohio and Tennessee, high school football is an absolute religion. All these stadiums will, more than likely, completely sell out. Since only 32 cities nationwide have a NFL team and only about 15 others have minor league pro football teams, high school football is even more local than college football. That’s the only team in town for people, and the town shows up. You don’t wanna be in a some Texas towns the day after the local high school football team loses. You’d swear everyone would’ve had cow crap dumped in their cars.

[@britblalock89]

#2 was the high-school where they filmed 10 things i hate about you

[@danbarry4772]

Yep Cardinals

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

Millie should be wearing a helmet during sports videos. Protect the baby.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Honestly how come there aren't more dome high school stadiums in Arizona the heat in Arizona really ain't worth playing at night in at all.

[@darrinlindsey]

Not sure what the goal was, of this video. The top 20 (at least) high school stadiums in the country, are in Texas. No other state comes close to how Texas does high school football. I live in Iowa, where most fields just have a small section of bleachers.

[@nicksmom7]

It’s sad that you guys don’t have Friday night football games. It was the best

[@staceybert1975]

Kyler Murray is a QB for Arizona Cardinals.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

He was gonna say Chiefs but then said Cardinals.

[@newgrl]

Kyler Murray plays for the Arizona Cardinals.

[@ToyotaTom04]

The AVERAGE high school stadium seats 5000-6000 people.

[@TurnMeUpp]

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[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

after 84 game winning streak, Allen high lost in Sept. 2021

[@danbarry4772]

Shots fired were at yhe NFL Cleveland Browns

[@Frog4Life207]

My high school had just the standard bleachers. wtf?

[@flat_life750]

Yet the most successful high school football program their field holds about 2,400 lol

[@kevinpandrea9035]

Go Massillon

[@walkinstick4169]

Allen lost a game at home to st john bosco

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

Wow incredible.

[@rons3634]

"OMG THEY ARE HUGE!!" Wasn't expecting a video on football stadiums. Thought you might be diversifying your content a little too much. lol

[@aaronwest1859]

Apparently this person has never been to the southeastern United States

[@kevinpandrea9035]

Go Massiloon Tigers beat Canton

[@tasmith8296]

No Ratliff stadium this list is a joke!

[@simoneubanks6976]

That was a horrible dad Joke

[@funtclaps77]

Growing up, my HS didn’t have a stadium on campus and played their games at the University in our city. Although as stadiums go it was extremely rudimentary, the size of the stands walloped any of the other local teams home stadiums and we always packed our side, easily 10,000 I’d say, just cuz we could. Had a good team to show for it as well, had a female quarterback on the team too.

[@wendymotogirl]

I hate the way that some of these videos make it seem like all experience in the United States is similar. as for football, only a small segment of people who live in the United States have families and children that experienced any kind of football when they were young. some people might live in a far north area where hockey was much more prevalent, or some might have more intellectual families where it was all about learning, and outdoor kind of exercise might be any number of things besides football. My main objection though is that many of these nostalgia kind of videos Are from a white middle to upper class Midwest perspective. completely ignoring the perspective and experiences of 75% of the country.

[@JustinWilliams-ud1lw]

This video missed a lot

[@cuzzo5666]

This list was horrible

[@hardtackbeans9790]

Ahhh. Don't get me lying. I do keep up with some high school football but not Allen. It is a little far away. I do keep up with some teams that play them regularly. Allen is a dominating team.