[RunItUpTheGut]

it is exciting for sure and Whitley ain't gonna roll over and play dead like 64 thinks.there will probably be an attendance record for this one.

There are two games I think could possibly hold the attendance record at Whitley (I don't think theres official stats for that)

One is Whitley/Bell playing for a district title in the mid 90'. I think it was 95, back when we still had the big fence in the back of the north end zone where the concession stand is, I want to say obviously there wasn't a seat, but there were people sitting on others people shoulders in the back of the end zone for that one. Bell won.

The other (and the one I think holds the record, at least of the games ive witnessed) is Whitley/Bell my sophomore year in 99. I remember hearing the school admins being worried the big bleachers at Whitley on the home side were going to collapse. People were on the hills at the middle school, I think a couple of teachers actually went on top of the middle school or Central to watch. They were literally swaying back and forth and there was no where to see the game if you weren't standing up around the fence which went 2 and 3 rows deep. We won after Bell dropped a TD pass to win the game. There was easily tice as many people at that game as there was at the 08 state semis against Highlands. 99's the same year we were a missed extra point away against Rock away from being district champs. Instead, it cost us a three way tie which we got the three seed. That was the year Lawrence was unreal and eliminated all three of us from the playoffs back to back to back before getting drilled themselves by Highlands. IDK what happened there, they were better than that, but Highlands was on that run of Lorenzen in 98 and the Guildulgi or however you spell it in 99 and 00.
That was GOOD football those few years all over the state. The quality was unreal.