How big is Texas? Ask the LHS football team
The Midland Lee High School football team is hosting a team from Arvada, Colorado tonight. Arvada is a Denver suburb on the north side of that city. Sounds like a pretty daunting road trip, doesn't it, especially for a high school team?
I would agree, but consider this. Last weekend, the Midland Lee team traveled to Port Arthur, Texas to play a non-district game. The distance they had to travel was 498 miles, just 65 miles shorter, as the crow flies, than the trip from Arvada to Midland.
Of course, it could be worse. An El Paso team playing that same Port Arthur team would have to travel 750 miles, and a team from Dumas (way up north in the Panhandle) would have to travel 728 miles to play a team from Brownsville.
Fortunately for LHS, they won the game last week, albeit in overtime. Otherwise, it makes a long trip seem reeeeeeealy long...as, I suspect, Arvada Pomona will find out tonight.
[Mileage calculator found at Greg Ingram's website. It ain't fancy, but it works.]
This fact was why I never joined the marching band.
(well also because I can't carry a tune)
(well also because I can't carry a tune)
That's why God made drums!
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And the taxpayers of the city get to foot the bill for all those extra miles while some advanced level H.S. classes can't afford the extra textbooks for their classes.
Posted by: Wallace-Midland, Texas at September 25, 2004 10:58 PM