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What Happened to the 'Worst High School Football Field' in America?
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
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This is the story of Branson, a tiny town in Colorado that had the "worst high school football field in America." Well spoiler alert, this one has a happy ending.
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Kent Hartman, Rocky Mountain Turf Solutions
The AMAZING people of the town of Branson, Colorado
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Next up, call the Giants the worst team in America so they actually get better
I don’t think even that could help them
The two New York teams are worst in America.
Yeah yeah Packer boy, stay in Green Bay the Bears are gonna chomp down on that spoil cheese you call a team. #BearDown
Already done that
MetLife is infamous for its turf monsters.
Rival school district: We don't want to play in Branson, you have a sad, pathetic excuse for a football field
Branson, raising enough to construct a field with finer turf than an actual NFL stadium: *You were saying...*
You're here too?
@CCTheBadger No, The Queen Of England.
hi avery
wow
I shot all the best b roll, tbh
Questionable
thankyou for your sercive
Brandon "FivePoints got recognized in Colorado before I did" Perna. Love ya Brandon
If the nfl were to have a field of dreams like game in the middle of nowhere in middle American, this would be the place to have it
I want it there now. Green Bay vs Bears, or colts vs Dallas
@@busbear6899 nah not cowboys. Imo it should be Cards and Pack, the 2 oldest teams
As a packer fan, that would be cool but make no sense. If anything it would be Denver vs Oakland. Logistics would be hell😂😂
@@IgnoretheButter i was thinking field of dreams sort. with the most historic rivalry or teams that have beef
any team in the middle of nowhere is so pure tho
@@busbear6899 if it wasn't so damn far away Steelers vs Browns or Steelers vs Packers in throwbacks would dope af.
"even tho I'm not a good person" yea u at man. Good job
This is why I love football. No matter how bad yesterday was, today is an opportunity to work hard and improve. You never know when that last ounce of effort will make all the difference in the end. @FivePoints Vids, what are the odds we can get some Branson Bearcats merch on your store with procedes going to growing the game in Branson?
This is an extremely good idea. I’d buy.
Yea !! BUT I don’t include the nfl in my liking of FOOTBALL 🏈 !!
I donated $50 USD toward this project when I saw your community post about their fundraiser. When the project was completed, I received an email from the school thanking me for my donation, and inviting me to the inaugural game. Given that I live in Kansas (Colorado’s eastern neighbor) and know what it’s like to be raised in an environment hostile to my dreams, I couldn’t say no toward helping kids and a community pursue their dreams. You’re a good person for having done this, and I can’t thank you enough for taking the time out of your day to share their fundraiser. This video is really satisfying to watch from an emotional perspective, and that’s a hard thing to accomplish when the algorithm just wants you to pump content constantly. Well done, Five.
awesome!!
They realized they'd no longer get to have the worst high school football field once Bishop Sycamore became a thing.
Bishop Sycamore's field is probably a Walmart parking lot.
@@rickswordfire4774 they actually practiced in a park lmfao
@@mateowu8048 did you see what they had to eat? And how long they practiced cause it was pretty bad
@@ctg5679 weren’t they stealing shit from supermarkets at one point?
@@mateowu8048 I heard they practiced outside their coach’s apartment parking lot (which he didn’t pay rent for)
This is gonna be a movie one day, and Emilo Estevez has to play the preacher, and they need to get David Cross to play Five.
"I big blue myself!" - David Cross as Fives
Lmaoo David Cross
bro this gonna look like the football version of field of dreams
“This is the story about attractive babies...”
*FED like Knocking on the door*
Following Chris Hansen.
Well FivePoints, you did it again! I hold back the tears every time I watch the video. Thank you for telling the fuller story that so many others did not have the time to tell. Quite a few more donations have come in after your video went live! Awesome!
In response to a lot of the questions I've seen in the comments:
(1) 6-man football is played on a 80 yard field, so there is no 50 yard line. The 40 is our midfield line.
(2) We have 57 residents in our town, and 85 students at our K-12 school. Only 17 of those students live in our school district. The majority of our students come on a bus 45 miles one way from nearby Trinidad, Colorado and a few students live south of us in New Mexico. Our small school has an amazing family dynamic that appeals to many families in neighboring communities.
You guys should give complimentary season tickets to donors. I live in Georgia so probably couldn't make the trip but I would frame Branson HS season tickets.
They need to name this Five Points Field. That way, Adam not only gets recognized in Colorado before Perna, he gets a field named after him in Colorado before Perna. Well done, Adam. This may be your best work yet. :)
Holy shit. Is his name five points cause he’s from Denver?
@@JDeep72 No, it's because he actually once scored a five point field goal in high school.
“This fields is even nicer then some nfl fields” looks at fedex field with deep judgmental stare 😂 also so happy they have such an amazing facility for the community!
As someone who was spoiled with a massive stadium built from a stadium torn down from the 96 olympics I felt the urge to donate to these guys so they could have a badass stadium just like a lot of us have.
Oh you play for Georgia State? Or does a high school in that area use the stadium aswell? Im asking cause the only time I remember it being used for high school games is in the Great Atlanta Bash because my school (Lovejoy) played in it last year and was supposed to play in it this year.
@@amirw334 read my comment again. Our stands were built from a stadium they tore down after the Olympics. Collins Hill.
@@al1087 Meanwhile Mcearchern in Cobb has a college-level stadium cause it was a fuckin college
@@haydenanderson3476 bruh the mceachern Indian statue is ICONIC
@@gc1215 McEcherns stadium was my favorite, first time I went for a football camp too, it was absolutely beautiful
Branson: an extremely remote town of 57 with better turf than MetLife Stadium
MetLife Stadium: *I'm gonna pretend, I didn't see that*
Says a lot about our society. Great things can be found and have happened in NJ. Stadium turf, attitude, and hosting a successful Super Bowl are not one of them
might be a better field, but its still only an 80yard football field.... at the time the metlife turf was put in, it was the considered the best product... time passes and now others are better
0:08 I am now officially horrified.
Bro it’s kinda crazy that pee wee football stadiums were better than these stadiums at one point…
I love this story! I'm a huge sixman football guy from Texas! I broadcast games in Texas over the radio and love hearing about small towns getting this kind of love! Great video and a great day to be sixman!🏈
I smell opportunity to create an interstate series of games at this field; perhaps a regional sixman championship bowl game of sorts. Branson could become like Williamsport. Visionaries, start bending your minds to it. Something good can and should arise from such thoughts.
What an amazing story, no script in Hollywood could match this feel good story of bring football and making upgrades to once a dirt field to better field than MetLife
You're really making a difference. Inspiring work 🙌 💪
What a beautiful story, spectacular to see Branson get the field they always deserved.
Absolutely wonderful. Love to hear stories like this
Awesome story man! I remember watching your vid on this field. Crazy how fast things can turn around.
Now if they can build some seating and snack bars then the town is set.
Yeah, no snack bars. I mean you KNOW they would gouge and sell small sodas for $17.95 and a basic hotdog for $22.50 and 9f course woukd claim the cost due to importing everything since there is no grocery store within the drive time of the average 5 Points Vid vid. 🤪
@@CONSOLETRUTH2 they wouldn’t price it that high but I’m just saying high school football without a snack bar isn’t high school sports.
@@Princess_Aurora the snackbar is ass bro
If they had a snack bar the could have had a nice stadium before this.
@Princess_Aurora... They would definitely price it high because they would have no other choice. Didnt you hear him say the nearest gas station is 1 hour away??. Where else are you gonna get a snack or something to eat?.. Thats why they do it
I appreciate you posting this video! I graduated from Kim/Branson 2 years ago and got to play on the old field and it’s awesome to see what can happen with the help of a ton of amazing people. Now my little brother (#22 in the video) gets to play his high school career on the best field in the state!
90% chance this is kelton
@@_top_jimmy_ 100% chance you’re right
That’s awesome!
@@FivePointsVids we both played the same time, I graduated the year before the big field project, @xk1ngOfClutchx a year before me, definitely a great project southeast Colorado is very thankful for everything the media and other people like you guys did for us helping the next generation of bearcats get to play on a “real” football field
Another story similar to this is In 2007, thanks to the support of a Florida High School, Bartram Trail (near Jacksonville, Fl), which helped to raise funds to put a turf field in place for the Whalers to play on. Barrow HS (Alaska), a long way from Jacksonville, is the farthest most northern town in the US, above the Arctic Circle.
Congratulations on a fantastic heart-string-pulling story!!! This crazy planet of ours needs more stories like this one.
Branson has always had that surviving, can do spirit. In the early 2000's Branson was one of the first schools in Colorado to offer online public school, offered to anyone living in the state. I enrolled both of my children in the Branson Online school in 2002. A few times each school year, students were required to make appearances at the actual school. I remember the first time going to Branson. No restaurants, no gas stations, no convenience stores. We drove down to Trinidad, Colorado, the nearest sizable town, to get a motel. Next morning, drove to Branson. The school was in the very old Branson public school building. Good to see The town still fighting and succeeding to survive.
Football is life. My little hometown has a population of approximately 8500 people. The football stadium my high school played in has covered seating for over 11,000. It is the ONLY stadium allowed to use the title of Olympic Stadium in North America. (The stadium is named for the nearby Olympic Mountains, which are located on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state. The International Olympic Committee tried to force the city change the name of the stadium. Because of big athletic greed. We didn’t change the name.
The stadium is still “Olympic Stadium “. Home of the Hoquiam Senior High School Grizzlies.
The site of the oldest high school football rivalry west of the Mississippi River is here. Hoquiam plays it’s bigger neighbor, Aberdeen, every year. Over 120 years of high school rivalry. The stadium has been part of the rivalry since 1938, when it was built by the federal WPA program and is now the last all wood stadium built by the WPA still standing in the United States.
Power houses like IMG and Mater Dei should play neutral site games here
I absolutely needed this type of feel good story today.
I can't tell you how many tears i was fighting back while watching
I don't know how I missed this story! I live about 3 hours away and your news footage you used is my local news station! Either way awesome story and thank you for being a part of helping out a community here in Colorado.
Fantastic video and story. Got me a bit teary at the end. It's pretty cool what Football can do. I'm on the autism spectrum, and going to Oregon Ducks games basically served as unintentional therapy for me to get used to loud crowds. Football brought this entire town some joy and a bit of hope for some of those athletes looking to make a go of it in the sport.
I have a good friend that lives with in five miles of the town. When I first went to work for Superior Livestock Auction. Bob asked if I would like to come and stay with him and his wife for about a week. And he would let me help with some of his deliveries, and help me start a new career. Bob and his wife are two of the best people I have ever met in my life. I hope I showed my gratitude for the jump start you guys gave me. Vaya Con Dios
This is some of your absolute best storytelling. Most of us view Colorado as a mountain state, but Eastern part of the state has some Great Plains elements. What a cool little community!
Footballs version of Field of Dreams. Love to hear your work is literally paying off for others as well!
Its stories like this that keep reminding me why I fell in love with football. Hard not to have goosebumps and even shed a few tears thinking about how much that field means to those kids and that town. Amazing work man and thank you for this
6v6 HS Football? I didn't even know that was a thing until now.
neither did I
Wow this story tugged on my heart strings. Shows just how magical sports can be
I was looking for light viewing and jokes.
I got wholesomeness and a little teary eyed.
You did a great job man...
I am so glad you made this video!!! That is where my family lives! My aunt sent me this story when they did it. Thank you for sharing it with a larger audience.
This is amazing! I’m so happy for the school, the community, and the kids! Awesome work buddy!!!
One of the most moving stories I've heard all year. Renews my dwindling faith in humanity. John Elway really missed an opportunity to have the broncos fund this themselves and get some massive PR.
This is right out of a movie, very cool story
bruh this video had me nearly in tears, you really changed a whole towns life for the better thanks for the video FivePoints
Awesome stuff. I grew up in New Mexico and played 6 man football. This story reminds me of when a school I transferred to first got a team and our field looked about the same. Sadly due to not enough students they now combine with another school (the one I transferred from) to play on their 8 man team and have won 5 State Championships in the last decade.
0:07 my eyes are actually bleeding
I was (still am,) thankful for seeing the upload that started this all and it was pretty much one of the first vids i ever watched on your channel. Reaching out to the fundraiser, contributing what little i can, and just sharing a message with them just felt good, as dumb as it may sound. too much negativity seems to be central in life and is hard for us all (me especially) to let go of it. Personally i must say thank you to you to Fivepoint Vids, I cant say much to make that make sense, but i wanted to share, and make sure you know that more positives than you ever imagined have come from your videos, so keep up the great work, i always hope to make it to your next vid.
Your eyes weren't deceiving you at the end, folks, that field really was only 80 yards. They play 6v6 football in southeastern Colorado because they don't have enough kids to field full teams. Some of them play both ways as well. Many years ago I roomed with a guy from Walsenburg, CO and his school played 6v6 as well. Walsenburg is the county seat in the next county over west of Branson.
At least it ain’t the Oakland Coliseum hey o
When I was in high-school, one of the teams in our Conference had the absolute WORST field I've ever played on. They were Sam Barlow HS and the field was literally just a giant mud hole. There was a tiny amount of grass in the end zones and a little on the sidelines, but the rest was literally just a giant field of mud. We played there twice and both games were just ridiculous. Throwing was out of the question as relievers couldn't make cuts. It was just a run heavy slog, up the middle on literally every play. And we only managed about 150 yards of offense.
This is what UA-cam is about! This is why this platform is amazing! People like you telling stories like this and changing people’s lives.
The real life DVSU that everyone can root for! NotTheExpert and Frank would be proud
Color scheme almost matches ha RIP Dingos.
Great job Five. Glad to see you helped tell their story.
I like all of your videos but you out did yourself on this one. Very inspirational. This is why I live in a small town.
This is the big boy version of when we were a group of 5 kids aged 12-14 petitioning the parents in the area to chip in for our own basketball court, complete with custom built, variable height stansion, backboard and NBA spec rim (that tilt is SO important!)
Successfully I might add, spent a good portion of my years there, had dunking contests on a 9ft rim, impressed our first girlfriends...and it's still a neat little thing kids of today do appreciate when they stumble upon it...ah good times on those 18x18ft ;)
Must feel amazing to get *gestures generally* aaaaall that done in such a small place !! Respect the determination!
My High School also got a turf this season
If you don't know what my high school is. It is in Alabama and our school is called Cherokee County
Beautiful, beautiful story. I saw your video ranking the original field as the worst then didn't think anything more of it. To see what's come of it is incredibly inspiring. I'm going to dig into my pitiful budget and donate what I can because efforts like this deserve it.
I didn't expect to shed tears over anything today, but now I have.
Amazing video and story Five - thank you for sharing
Colorado native and I've visited places near Branson when I used to circuit ride. So many of these small towns with 6 or 8 man football (which is great to watch by the way). This vid made me tear up and remember that human beings can actually be pretty great sometime.
Great job 5 Points! Sometimes you got to call the think what it is if you are ever going to see it get better. And to the people of this community, well-done and many happy years of football ahead.
I think about this place often. The people really made the experience amazing. They were so welcoming and friendly. You have to love small town America, some of the last places on Earth where values hold weight :)
I thought this would be the Oklahoma one that was 80 yards and goes off a cliff from that other video
The crazy part about that one is how does such a mess like that happen in Oklahoma, there is flat land that would not be hard to build decent field for either within a mile in most directions of that field, probably even closer when they actually built the combined baseball/football field. It is not even a size city that should have a hard time coming up with funds to at least replace the baseball field, the football field has a lot more sunk cost in the stadium but with the baseball field gone would have some options in a remodel to make it better for players and fans. It is not even a matter of making some logistical sense being adjacent to the school that plays there, since it seems to have moved to a newer complex years ago.
While from where the stadium ends it looks like it had been 80 yards some time ago, they seem to have extended it further into the baseball center field, so is a full hundred yards (granted the crowd seating ends at the south 20).
This is such a cool story I thought this was a really great video. Love small town videos like this
Wow this is beautiful.
Much love to those who helped out, yall are just the coolest
This is absolutely Small Town America. Thank you for being a part of this. 🇺🇸 🇺🇲
I coach Six-Man in Nebraska. It's like nothing else. I'm glad this tiny town gets to play football.
It’s incredible! I was blown away by how much open space is out there. It’s like 3v3 hockey.
My school recently won the State Championship in Single A football, so we started to upgrade our sports facilities, starting with the football field, then the track, now the baseball and softball fields. Also we redid the basketball courts inside.
Great video 👍 props to you for actually attending the game. Major respect 👏 Love your channel too.
Jesus fucking Christ that’s one of the greatest goddamn videos on UA-cam I’ve ever witnessed. Sports are more than just being jocks, it’s about bringing communities and cultures together. I love these fucking stories
Cool story. By the way, 6 man football is crazy fun to watch, if you ever get a chance to see it locally. Those kids play just as hard, and they all play both sides of the ball. Once you get the differences between 6 and 11 man in your head, it's easy to follow, and usually there's a lot of action.
Why am I crying at a five video? Where my normal shit posts! I kid good job Five.
Adam you helped make this happen, you and all those who donated should be proud of what you've contributed to
Just show's how a community can come together.
We played a school that has/had the only hs dirt field in the US, called the pit. Topped with salt it was nasty. There was a big earthquake a few years ago and heard alot of people left an already tiny town so idk the state of the hs is.
Man I could have sworn this was a video of my childhood football team the Aledo Bearcats in Aledo Texas. Same colors and everything haha. Awesome video sir!
Five: Dang, I need to revise my Worst Football Stadiums Video to exclude Branson and move MetLife to #1, then move Branson to my Best Football Stadium video.
It is now 3 years scene this video was made. I am Brad's son and am playing for the varsity football team. It is still unfathomable thinking of this new turf. Our 9 person team today still fights in the game we love.
I come from a small town and we have a big company that said “Listen, we’re gonna give you $1 million to build a new turf or we’re giving it to someone else” so we obviously took it. Nice turf, super grateful. Surrounding schools play on it sometimes when theirs get too muddy/rough to play on
I have watched your channel for a while. You have always been down to earth and real. Calling people out how you do actually turned out to be one of the best things you could have done for that small town. Then to actually go there and support them just awesome 👌 don't change man. You perna tree all you guys are dope I don't even watch espn anymore. It's you guys and Pat Mcafee. UA-cam is king
Thanks Jack!
Never have I ever expected to cry watching this channel, and yet here I am.
“A Perfect Day” next slide “September 11th”
Man.. awesome! Made me cry, I love this sport and the fact that a hair brain idea led to a community coming together is amazing, great work man
I dig any guy that have R2D2 in his backdrop. Go Branson!
Bruh, it's the football version of Field of Dreams, you love to see it.
Excellent commentary of an amazing story of how folks have a lot of good in their sporting hearts 🤩
I worked a summer helping with turf fields and man was it really fun
This is not only one of the most amazing sports stories in quite some time, but it goes to show the good that can come from sports. Some people hate sports and see no point to it but when you see what can be accomplished it should turn if the most ardent critic into, if not a sports fan, at least to a person that doesn't hate sports (if that makes sense).
Regardless, awesome to know that the kids in this small town can now play a fame they love without fear of injury.
Now if only some NFL stadiums could do the same!
As a current Sheriff Deputy, and a former Marching Band member for my high school, I thought those yard markers were only used by Marching Bands to practice in parking lots like mine did every Thursday from 3-8:30PM. Jesus I didn't realize a field could be that bad, thank god they didn't have a marching band, they'd literally die.
This is why I am so embarrassed about the old rug we had in Jack Trice when I was in college. We were a Big Eight college with a junk dangerous field with national championship teams trying to not get hurt on it every other year. Embarrassing.
Gives this video a standing Ovation. That was freaking brilliant. Way to go everyone!
Now this explains the collab with Brandon Perna during the Giants-Broncos game. Very good mini-documentary 5P!
who would have thought a 5points video about a football field would bring a tear to my eye
This video is solid!! One of your top videos yet man!
Appreciate it!
Dude this is great!! Awesome work!!
Good shit, FPV. Good shit.
This is just a nice story. Thanks for putting this togther it is a super nice.
"have you ever called someone's baby ugly?"
*Me:* "yeah"
"of course you haven't; you're a decent person"
*Me:* "oh"
To be fair, the experts said there were injuries at MetLife because of the cleats the opposing teams wore
As an Eagles fan I always assume people are talking about the Vet when they talk about bad Astroturf. That stadium must have been built on a Native American burial ground because it was cursed.
@@saracin Same for FedEx Field, an absurd amount of injuries seem to happen there. Maybe the football gods hate Dan Snyder.
13:00 don’t forget the concession stand!!!
lol the turf monster got that ref!!
Well done 5 points!
I’ve been waiting this part 2 for over a year. I’m not crying you are
I love this so much.
Host an NFL game there asap. Would be a better "gimmick game" than most in that video lol.
Also, if they're looking at hosting state and regional level games I'd imagine they'd need to build some amount of accommodations in the area, which could be made more justifiable with other large events on the field.... maybe a company could sponsor a yearly postseason bowl game there as well?
Or maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, just such a cool story. Thanks for doing this follow-up video on what became of one of your harshest critiques of any previous video.
Do NFL seven on seven practice drill style which NFL teams are used to or do the six on six.