skygiants

Basketball is a thing!

... it's just that it so completely pales in comparison to how football is regarded that I don't even have words.

Anecdotal example: my hometown. Average annual household income, $25k; per capita income $15k. One high school. Population 9,700. Largest town for about 45 minutes to an hour in any direction.

While I was in high school, the fieldhouse burned down.

... wait, do you know what a fieldhouse is? Er. Building in which to store training and exercise equipment and lockers and where football players could dress out and get ready before games. Just football players. No other sports players, I don't THINK.

The fieldhouse burned down -- not sure how.

Within one week, and I think it was actually within 3 days, a quarter of a million dollars was raised to replace it.

Yep.

ETA: Right, the point in context of the book -- so basketball was hammered on and talked about and all the cheerleaders were focused on and etc. etc. etc. etc.

Football was absolutely not mentioned, not even once.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA NO.