SanAngeloBobcat
08-29-2008, 07:10 AM
When the dust settles on the 2008 regular season, the 10 football teams in District 2-5A will have traveled a grand total of 12,872 miles.
That's enough charter buses, diesel fumes and horrendous truck stop food to make it from Midland to Boston and back.
Three times.
While other people like to joke about "driving halfway around the world," District 2-5A means it literally. The Earth's circumference at the Equator is 24901.55 miles. Half of that is 12,451 miles, or 421 less than 5A West Texas football players will travel by the time their heads hit the pillow sometime during the wee hours of Nov. 8.
When the University Interscholastic League squished Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa and San Angelo into one common geographic region with its 2008-2010 realignment, it didn't just create a 10-team mega-district. It created enough headaches to keep Tylenol in business for the next 100 years.
Here is the full story:
http://www.mywesttexas.com/articles/2008/08/29/sports/highschool/football/2008_mileage_story_lh_read.txt
That's enough charter buses, diesel fumes and horrendous truck stop food to make it from Midland to Boston and back.
Three times.
While other people like to joke about "driving halfway around the world," District 2-5A means it literally. The Earth's circumference at the Equator is 24901.55 miles. Half of that is 12,451 miles, or 421 less than 5A West Texas football players will travel by the time their heads hit the pillow sometime during the wee hours of Nov. 8.
When the University Interscholastic League squished Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa and San Angelo into one common geographic region with its 2008-2010 realignment, it didn't just create a 10-team mega-district. It created enough headaches to keep Tylenol in business for the next 100 years.
Here is the full story:
http://www.mywesttexas.com/articles/2008/08/29/sports/highschool/football/2008_mileage_story_lh_read.txt