Top 15 Craziest High School Football Stadiums in America

[smellyflannel]

The one in Barrow, Alaska is definitely unique because one errant play can have the football go into the water.

[Goodboy-gdwl]

An honorable mention should go to George Washington High School football stadium in San Francisco. It's unique because it's a High School Football stadium with an amazing view of the Golden Gate Bridge.

[ScoDavidson]

Fun video. Check out the Granite Bowl in Elberton, GA. In the middle of nowhere, town of 5k people, completely granite stadium seats 20k.

[imilliemedina]

Weehawken High School has a great stadium. As you swing around to enter the Lincoln Tunnel into NYC the highway encircles it and you look down on it. It's a gorgeous little field, well designed and maintained.

[paulywrath]

Stadium Bowl/Silas High School 3:52 is where they filmed "10 Things I Hate About You" with Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles. The stadium is easy to recognize in the "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" scene.

[desanto]

The Union City High School field is on the roof of the Union City High School, which also makes it very unique.

[ggriesenauer]

Best one is Kathy Parker field, just by the story alone. Kathy Parker had no ties to the high school, but heard the team was playing on a rough patch of ground that wasn't maintained. She fundraised to pay for the new artificial turf field so the kids could have a normal field to play on. Very cool.

[TubaDaddy]

If you ever do weirdest high school baseball stadiums, you should add my alma mater, Redbank Valley High School, New Bethlehem, PA. They play at the county fairgrounds grandstand, which is used for rodeos and demolition derbies during fair week. Players find all sorts of car parts on the field!

[dannybright]

The Stone Castle stadium in Bristol Tennessee is the most impressive stadium I’ve ever heard of. The whole stadium is actually shaped like a castle. That stadium would have been on my list.

[mikewhicker]

Very interesting. However, you missed one of the most unique high school stadiums in the country. Reitz Bowl in Evansville, Indiana. It's over 100 years old, seats 14, 000, and is one of the most historic stadiums in the country. It's also an amphitheater carved out of a hill -- very unique.

[PinkysBane]

Jelsma stadium in Guthrie Oklahoma is where I played it's called "The Rock" and it is the most unique high school football stadium in Oklahoma. It was built in the 1930's by FDR's Public Works. It has a 30 foot rock wall on the north end that is Oklahoma Ave so extra points go onto the street. It has the baseball stadium Squires field on the south end zone and there is a retractable wall that separates the playing field in the end zone. When games of the week happen the news choppers land on the baseball diamond for dramatic effects. It's only about 3000 capacity but it's a gem in the heart of Oklahoma

[tempestfury]

Great video! "Costed" isn't a word. The stadium COST x amount of dollars.

Keep it up!

[layrdolliff]

So the Round Valley Dome is in Eager not Edgar. But awesome to see my old stadium get some love

[bluestar]

Narrator uses the word "costed" - I'm out.

[bendierking]

Illinois doesn't have too many unique football stadiums. One I can mention is Rock Island HS. Their field is set up just like "The Pit" in Elder, with the horseshoe style seating. The field and track sit lower than the surrounding sports fields and school and the seating essentially sits in the "hillside". Oh yeah, the school nickname is "Rocks".
Another unique on is Mt. Carmel HS in the city with the same name (not the one in Chicago). The field here is at a lot lower of an elevation than the school and town. There's one long set of bleachers from the top to the bottom where the field is. There's no visiting bleachers.

[duranventura]

Will you do a Top 10 Weirdest NHL Arenas

[falloutfan]

Another stadium worth mentioning is Saline High School in Michigan. It looks like one of those hole in the ground stadiums and has a double decker home side. That whole school’s budget is purely athletics because their other facilities are state of the art as well

[thephantomeagle]

another honorable mention for indoor high school field would be Superior Dome, which is home to the Northern Michigan University Wildcat football. It's one of the largest domes in the world, by diameter at over 530 feet. It has a retractable football/soccer field, with a track, tennis courts and volleyball courts under it.

It's often used by local football teams in the regular season, especially if there's lots of snow. Since the UP can get hundreds of inches of snow, and major storms off the lake, it's the perfect solution. Similar to the NFL using Ford Field for a few games that are relocated. You can often have 60+ mile an hour winds in the UP off Lake Superior with ice, rain and snow, it makes it deadly to even think about playing outdoors. The Superior Dome is right on the lake. It also holds many early rounds of high school playoffs. The finals are at Ford Field in Detroit.

[jmoneygames]

I’ve been on the PFHOF, Masillons, and Elders field as a water/ballboy. All great stadiums!

[bossfan]

That field in Barrow, AK has to feel like concrete. Imagine getting tackled on it.