Ohio Loves It's High School Football: Especially in Cincinnati

Ohio loves it's football - especially at the high school level. Could it be we were tired of rooting for our losing pro teams? I think not. This isn't an overnight phenomnom that just caught everybody buy surprise. No, Ohioans have always loved a friday night game and the sense of closeness they feel towards the community as they sit in the bleachers on a crisp Fall night, while the band plays their alma maters fight song. It's not just the, " has beens," it's also the "never was's," and the, "never wills," that fill up the stands to watch these pre-men of iron battle it out for, basically: bragging rights! And Bragging rights alone. There are no multi-million dollar contracts, no one-hundred dollar ticket prices. This is the sport in it's purest form - man'o-a-man'o, them versus us, and all of it - for fun!

Cincinnati and the surrounding area is a Hot-bed of high school talent, with programs like Cincinnati's Elder, Moeller, St. Xavier and Public School Powerhouse Colerain alway's in the national rankings. It's only natural that people started to wonder how Cincinnati and Ohio teams would match up against other big three states that love High School Ball, such as: Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida. Well now we know - enter Kirk Herbstreit.

Along with Mcdonalds, the former Ohio St. Buckeye and ESPN college football analyst launched the: McDonalds Kirk Herstreit Ohio Vs. The USA Challenge in 2005. The Challenge now in It's third-year showcases some of the country's finest in high school teams, like: DeLassalle (Cal.), Lakeland (Fla.), Poly (Long Beach, Cal.), Don Bosco Prep (N.J.), Cardinal O'Hara (Penn.) and Tyler Lee (Tex.) - just to drop a few names. These teams and others will be matched up against the above mentioned Cincinnati teams, as well as other Ohio talents: Hillard Davis ( last years Div. I State Champs), Massillon and Findlay - all appearing in 2007.