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Odessa's stadium (Ratliff) holds 19,300 but when they go standing room it can go over 20,000. The Midland-Odessa "metroplex" is a hotbed of HS football but what goes on there is matched by most all other areas of Texas, except for the inner city areas of Dallas, Austin, Houston and San Antonio where there are sometimes more players and band members than there are fans in the stadiums.
There is a little town called Wall which is out in West Texas (suburb of San Angelo). Working games there always blew my mind. There was one red light in town and a population of maybe 400. But when the lights came on the place would fill up with 1500 - 2000 folks. I never understood it.
What town are you in? I am looking for a HS game to watch on Fri Sep 9 in Lynchburg/Roanoke area.
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