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Whenever we Alabamians hear that our beloved Yellowhammer State is in the news, our first reaction is to usually to cringe–“what now?”<\/p>\nWhenever we Alabamians hear that our beloved Yellowhammer State is in the news, our first reaction is to usually to cringe–“what now?”<\/p>\n
Well, for better or worse, Alabama has made it again, this time in the form of MTV’s “Two-a-Days”<\/a> a reality show which documents the fortunes of the Hoover High School (near Birmingham) Buccaneers football team, winner of four of the last five state 6-A football titles and the current preseason #1 in the USA TODAY Super 25.<\/a><\/p>\n We know a little something about Hoover High up Huntsville way. Our Grissom High Tigers are usually the ones who make the first round of the state playoffs only to be served up as Buccaneer bait. Last time out it was 47-19. I think Hoover’s third string defense played most of the second half. I would point out that this sort of thing does not<\/em> happen when we play them in soccer.<\/p>\n I let the boys watch “Two-a-Days” last night, but I just couldn’t bring myself to sit down and watch a show on MTV. I’ll see if I can pump them for information sometime today to see what they thought. Maybe I’ll watch it next week.<\/p>\n USA Today<\/em> has a feature article on the team this morning<\/a>, the Birmingham News<\/em> has a review of sorts,<\/a> and here’s a clip from the MTV show.<\/a> I think the funniest line from the clip is the one about “getting a free ticket outta here.” Let’s see–a free ticket out of a city where the average household income ($71,964) is nearly twice the state average and the median price of a home is $209,700. Yeah, that must be some trip.<\/p>\n Friday night, my foot. They should have named that movie Hoover<\/em> High<\/em> Lights<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whenever we Alabamians hear that our beloved Yellowhammer State is in the news, our first reaction is to usually to cringe–“what now?” Well, for better or worse, Alabama has made it again, this time in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20,45,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-huntsville","category-media","category-southern-culture","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9940,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/9940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}