(HS) Football games - Strangest atmosphere(s)?

[UTVols2]

I was at the 1997 Appy vs PV game and I have to say that was one of the best atmospheres I have seen at any high school football game. I was standing in the end zone about 5 or 6 rows back

[imported_MoonlightGraham]

Best one I ever played in was at Big Stone by junior year during the regular season, it was the year after we finally beat them. Ton of people there, we showed up 10 minutes before kick off (taking a page from Tom Turner's playbook).
They beat us 14-6 I believe.

[StateChamps92]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UTVols2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I was at the 1997 Appy vs PV game and I have to say that was one of the best atmospheres I have seen at any high school football game. I was standing in the end zone about 5 or 6 rows back </div></div>
Me and my dad went to that game. It was great, except for the ending, LOL. My dad was an old Dawg and almost came to blows with a PV heckler. It was something else.
The night of the 92 LPD championship game (PV @ Appy) was a very exciting. We were the early season pick for the LPD and state. PV was second, but after we got spanked by GC late in the season all the local papers picked PV to win the game. PV also sent a wreath of black roses to the Dawghouse. After the final whistle and us getting the 16-7 victory, we returned to the Dawghouse and Gary Harris threw the roses at the PV players feet as they went to their locker room. Truely a classic LPD game from our districts history.

[Seventy4]

As an old Raider, I must say that three games stand out in my mind. I was on the field for each of them, but the atmosphere around the game was unbelievable.

1990 Playoff game vs. Pocohontas @ Lawson-Fitchko
First playoff game, Lawson-Fitchko was packed and the endzones were checkerboarded. There was a buzz about the game that I hadn't seen before. The stadium was rocking and everything was buzzing.

1990 Half-State game vs. Perry McClure @ Lawson-Fitchko
Before the game, we watch the opening scene from Patton, the words "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" still ring in my ears 17 years later, wow I am old. Okay...we go out on the field, there are more people in the stands than there are in Norton, they have brought back people from the time of leather helmets to come and talk to us about the game...the game was just a complete blur. It was a fight until the end.

The last one is what the Coalfield called a "Little Black Magic"
1991 vs. Powell Valley @ Bullit Park
First time that Burton beat Powell Valley in a long time. You could just feel the energy coming off the field. I think only a handful of us knew we were getting the black jerseys after we did warmups. We went out in our usual Orange & White for warmups, then came back into the locker room and they were spread out around the locker room. We put them on and went out with more energy than we had combined in the last two seasons.

So those are my three...they are a little biased, I will mention that the year we went to Appy in 1991 that they had the best atmosphere I have ever had to play against, hands down.

[luvLPDsports]

PV and Giles in the mud.

[SunTzu]

Unfortunately the single-wingers were better mudders .

[StateChamps92]

1991. After Burton had to forfeit a couple of games, they were forced to move the location of the Region D finals to Appy. Coach John Cuzko stated that he didn't care were he had to play Appy, even if it was at the Gates of Hell. I can't believe I forgot about that one. Their was an stange feel in the air.

[rthack71]

i never forget that game it was played at night because of the weather the field was awful.i think the field conditons really helped the dawgs.If the game had been played at norton i believe the raiders would have won.

[StateChamps92]

Come on now. We had Kris Clark. The muddy field hindered his cutting and slashing. The final was 39-6. We were fired up and ready to reclaim our Region D title that we had lost to Norton the previous year. I agree that home field advantage helped, but it didn't decide the outcome.