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High end High School Football
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Quick background. Southlake Carroll is a national powerhouse in football and usually ranked in the top 5 of the mythical high school national rankings. The school district has some bucks because when the Dallas Cowboys cannot practice outside due to weather, they use the high school's indoor facilities.

From the Dallas News:

The Southlake Carroll Dragons, the state's premier high school football team, are nationally renowned for college-level offenses, suffocating defenses and talented athletes.

And starting this year, Dragon fans can watch their highly ranked team from the stands while clenching chopsticks and munching on California rolls and other sushi delicacies.

Yes, sushi.

Talk about taking a sledgehammer to Texas' hard-nosed, tough-hitting, tailgating, doesn't-get-no-better-than-Friday-night-lights image.

When asked if she'd eat sushi at a football game, Southlake mom Danielle Marez paused.

She then paused some more.

"It doesn't seem like typical football fare," she said as her young son and daughter stood nearby and smiled at the thought.

H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger agrees.

He wrote Friday Night Lights, a best-selling book and now NBC TV show about the 1988 Odessa Permian Panthers.

"It sounds like Texas high school football has gone soft," he said from his home in Philadelphia. "The idea of serving sushi at a Texas high school football game just flies in the face of everything I know about Texas high school football.

"What are they going to serve next, penne pasta?" Mr. Bissinger said. "Let's get back to good ol' fashioned Texas barbecue."

But serving sushi makes sense in Southlake, school district nutrition director Mary Brunig said.

"We have a very health-conscious community," she said. "This is a healthy choice for those people who don't want all those carbohydrates."

The school sold out of premium $3-a-bottle Fiji water at Dragon Stadium last year. And Southlake students can plop tofu on their salads from the school's salad bar and swish them down with chocolate soy milk.

Mrs. Brunig said she expects the sushi to sell well. Two Asian school employees will be serving it up in a grass-skirted tiki hut starting at the home opener Sept. 5.

The high school and senior high school cafeterias will start selling sushi the following Monday.

For $5 at the stadium and $4 at the schools, students can buy three types of rolls: Pacific shrimp rolls (shrimp, avocado, rice and nori), Seattle rolls (smoked salmon, cream cheese, asparagus, rice and nori) and California rolls (real crab, avocado, asparagus, rice and nori). Nori is the seaweed wrapped around the roll.

"I might try it once," said sophomore Price Arnold, 16. But he admits he doesn't enjoy sushi that much anyway.

He prefers watching Dragon football games while washing down a barbecue beef sandwich with a soft drink.

Ms. Brunig said serving sushi is just the beginning. She said the schools plan to offer students more international foods, like tamales.

And she's looking at additional sushi variations, too, complete with the spicy green wasabi that fits so nicely with the Dragons' green color scheme.

Perhaps salmon roe, raw scallops or puffer fish – the potentially poisonous but prized and delectable Japanese fish?

Or even edamame (steamed soy beans) lightly sprinkled with salt and served with soy sauce?

Not anytime soon, Ms. Brunig said.

"No, we aren't going to get into sea urchins, either," she said. "But we may do sushi desserts."
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#2
now the cheerleaders won't be the only fishy things @ the games
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I can't understand people that think they have to eat at a game or at a movie, can't you go 4 hours without food? If you cant and you dont want the carbs bring a pocket full of tofu. "Buzz" Bissinger is right we are becoming a nation of pussies.
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Securb Wrote:I can't understand people that think they have to eat at a game or at a movie, can't you go 4 hours without food? If you cant and you dont want the carbs bring a pocket full of tofu. "Buzz" Bissinger is right we are becoming a nation of pussies.

My exact reaction.
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#5
I've got another story for you guys and this is from the school district I live in. My daughter brought home a bunch of papers after her first day of school. One of them is from the athletic department. A couple of years ago, they build a new football stadium, excuse me, "athletic complex" because the soccer teams really pack them in.

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Little Elm was a fast growing community until the housing crash. The high school went from 2A to 4A in the past few years (based on attendence). Texas highest level is 5A, so they are just below the big schools. The second level of the pressbox contains the "gold room". A 30 seat luxury box. A luxury box!!! In a freakin high school stadium. And, this isn't a high school with a huge tradition of winning like Southlake Carroll or Odessa Permian. The minimum bid, oh yes, they auction this bad boy off, is $500.

So, if we want to have a TMR party on a Friday night in Little Elm, I'll put in the bid.
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#6
......everything is bigger in texas
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Prog Wrote:The minimum bid, oh yes, they auction this bad boy off, is $500. So, if we want to have a TMR party on a Friday night in Little Elm, I'll put in the bid.

It would cost them $500 just to hose the place down after a TMR party let alone the damage and legal fees.
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Securb Wrote:It would cost them $500 just to hose the place down after a TMR party let alone the damage and legal fees.

and they'll never be able to get the smell out
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Don't see how that would be our problem.

They might get mad about the PA announcement to send all 18 year old cheerleaders to the suite.
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