What’s your favorite football - high school, college, or NFL?

[SpottedGoat]

#1 Nothing compares to Highschool football. The crowds, emotion, pride, community, local rivalries, wonderful evening entertainment. And for me, the smaller the schools the better. We can be fans of colleges we never went to & trash talk forever. Do you know who your team beat in the bowl game last year? Do you? But when you live in one small town & work in another, that Friday night game between the two means so much more, it's 365 days of ribbing to know EXACTLY who won before the teams meet again.

#2 Middle school football. It's where the kids really start growing & becoming competitive. It's where fans start to learn about who to watch in HS for the next few years & if their favorite HS program will have good days coming when the seniors leave. For a lot of kids, this will also be the end of sports for them. Work, money, trouble at home, they may not get a high school option with the time it takes to compete at that level.

#3 College used to be great & I still watch a bunch of it. Unfortunately, it's becoming a little much with the money involved. 

 

 

[ElizabethtonCyclonesRock]

I'll say college football is definitely my favorite. 1. Star power and big ole athletic boys in the power 5 teams. nothing like watching future NFL players duke it out. mighty specimens. 2. community feel 3. the players are compensated for their work 4. NIL and the transfer portal is making teams have greater parity. no longer does one team have like 5 strings of depth better than a team's 1st string. 5. more creative offenses and defenses. 6. can watch a live stream of it for free on YouTube 

[BarneySox2007]

High School for sure, College is okay but transfer portal and NIL will cause a lot of problems and may bust some teams. Haven't watched a pro game in 7 years.

[osunut2]

College still gets my vote, despite all of the recent changes with the transfer portal and NIL. If I didn't have a college degree, I'd probably feel differently. I didn't grow up in (or around) a big city, so I have zero connection to the NFL.

As much as I enjoy high school football and that smaller community feel, the situation that's played out over at Sweetwater is the #1 one thing that ruins prep sports for me.

[orngnblk]

On 10/1/2023 at 5:37 PM, tradertwo said:

High school is on a different plane. Best reason is I know the kid's (most of) families...went to school with a bunch of grandparents, and the rest are neighbors, acquaintances, and just people I recognize from day to day activities. Nothing like having a personal interest in seeing the kids growing up from week to week, and year to year. 

High school by far until the school board who supports the "other" high whom which you play and have beaten with the coach who applied for the job is looked over for a guy who couldn't get a job as the middle school assistant and is handed YOUR high schools open job on a silver platter because the two of them are old buddies and he just wants to give him a shot.SMH.There I go posting ll hopped up on diet Mtn Dew.

High school is my short answer.

[tradertwo]

4 hours ago, orngnblk said:

High school by far until the school board who supports the "other" high whom which you play and have beaten with the coach who applied for the job is looked over for a guy who couldn't get a job as the middle school assistant and is handed YOUR high schools open job on a silver platter because the two of them are old buddies and he just wants to give him a shot.SMH.There I go posting ll hopped up on diet Mtn Dew.

High school is my short answer.

Rest easy onb...the only reason that it bothers you so much is because you care. Too much tradition up your way not to work itself out, just a shame that it seems so hard to just do the right thing and hire the best person for the job the first time. For some reason, that seems hard to get right for most people.

[JDHoss]

Love football at all levels from middle school to the NFL, but after watching well over 300 different teams in 9 southeastern states over the years, high school football holds a special place in my heart. Last night, we watched Pahokee at Atlantic in Delray Beach, FL. We sat with the Pahokee fans, who packed the visitor's side while Atlantic maybe had 400 people in the home stands, which probably hold between 3-4K. The Pahokee fans were crazy loud, had cowbells and air horns and their band played constantly for what made a great atmosphere to be in. We love going to different communities and eating at different mom & pop restaurants like last night's Fran's Fried Chicken Haven.