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...*
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?
@@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
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.
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. :)
“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!
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.
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
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
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.
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!
@@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
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. 🤪
@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
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Jesus fucking Christ that’s one of the greatest goddamn videos on RU-vid I’ve ever witnessed. Sports are more than just being jocks, it’s about bringing communities and cultures together. I love these fucking stories
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.
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 :)
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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. RU-vid is king
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!
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
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.
I recall visiting Mariposa CA playing peewee football (maybe 99-2000), their field was pretty much dirt with marble to softball sized rocks on the surface. Someone may hate, but remember specifically.
You know what, this is great. I feel like my old high school(Bishop Noll Institute)has the worst football stadium in the state of Indiana. Yeah, the press box is little and the stands are made of wood and there's no bathroom or concessions stand(they just took that away from the school this year over property line issue) but at least the playing field is natural grass and safe. These guys didn't even have grass or stands. Just some dirt and janky field goals. They need some stands with concessions and bathrooms now.
You should do a whole video or a series of videos about the different kinds of football that is played around the country, like 6-man and 8-man. I bet 95% of the people in this country are unaware that those variations are even a thing.
When you have lemons make lemonade. They probably would have saved a lot of money making it a moto-x track. A lot less injuries too. Next step, an olympic diving pool, for the town with limited water.
I'm not sure if this one or the lava pea gravel field on the shores of the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, Alaska was worse. They also got an Astroturf field donated by a benefactor, but also had the challenge of getting it from the factory in Minnesota to the northernmost locale in the world. Great stories.
I remember a story on ESPN about 15 years ago about a high school football team that was formed in Utqiagvik, Alaska that was literally played on frozen tundra, and opponents would have to fly in to play games. Eventually, some viewer with connections to the Jacksonville Jaguars got a bunch of players, coaches, and residents to chip in and bring an artificial turf field for the high school.
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!
My high school was definitely lucky to have a nice stadium. A few years after i graduated, they even started construction on a brand new school thanks to a big company in the area.
Same, our highschool is very fortunate to have a field that is both huge and nice. (You can search it up, it’s called “Dragon Stadium”, home to the Southlake Carroll Dragons and former home of the Major League Soccer team, F.C Dallas)
