Glendale 2021 Football Schedule
Glendale 2021 Football Schedule
Glendale 2021 Football Schedule
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looks like a tough row to hoe for Glendale Football. Maybe they will improve from 2020, if not well it is going to be a long FB season.
The Corona has taught us sports is nice but not really that important. It is important for us few sports nuts on here but compared to the number of posts a few years ago the numbers of enthusiasts are way down. Most folks could care less. It is about the money in pro sports. The Olympics for example will be a sports with a green backdrop. Fake cheers, fake fans and probably a few fake athletes. The Japanese public does not want them but who does? Big TV money. Lets be clear, I like high school sports, but you can’t fight the inevitable. Dads, do not waste cash on coaches and travel ball. Instead buy computers and joy sticks, a better investment. Better the schools start ramping up their E-Sports teams and cheering for the Glendale Nerds vs Gabrielino Geek Squad. That is the future.
The idea that schools who are perennially uncompetitive dropping football isn’t important is stupid to the point of offensiveness. High school sports is not just about the top teams and players. For the overwhelming majority of players, there is no championship and there is no “next level”, and the value of football (or baseball, volleyball, or badminton for that matter) is in the experience for its own sake. Every program that dies will mean hundred or thousands of kids who will never get that experience, and the joys, frustrations, and lessons that come with it.
Taken to its logical conclusion, the idea that the only football that “matters” is that played by the genuinely competitive teams would mean that we could reduce high school football to a dozen or so schools, most of them Catholic. There wouldn’t be any Glendales in that world, and there probably wouldn’t be any Monrovias or Glendoras either (let’s be real – they have no business sharing the field with real football teams like Amat or Centennial). It wouldn’t affect the football that “matters:, but our society as a whole will be poorer for it.
But hey, those kids can stay home and play with a Nintendo switch or something.
@ NWO: Glendale is now in the “Freelance” League, along with crosstown rival Hoover. The Freelance also includes Castaic, Liberty, and Rancho Christian, but Glendale’s only league game this season will be against Hoover.
There could be some really long bus rides for Glendale and the other teams if the league lasts beyond 2021.
(Source: MaxPreps)
Sure some schools here and there might drop football but that won’t matter much. The schools that do have not been competitive for years anyway. People have said the same thing about every sport, from baseball to badminton. Baseball was boring, basketball to much bling and hotdogging, football to dangerous. We still have bullfighting and cage fighting. I think stastistically cheerleading has more injuries than football.
What league are they in now? Weren’t they in the Pacific?
I know plenty of folks here will say that Glendale doesn’t “matter”, because they aren’t that good and haven’t been for a long time, but this is a big deal. Football is increasingly on the ropes, and I believe there is a real risk of many schools dropping the sport in the coming years. The fact that they are coming out of the pandemic with a full schedule, one that includes Hoover, no less, is a real sign of hope.