Abstract: High school football in the state of Texas has gotten out of control. Sports are no longer played for the good of the school but rather have become a Friday night ritual in these small Texas towns. Players are no longer just high school kids interacting in school sports, but have now become heroes to these small-town communities. Communities simply no longer support the local high school team, but rally in the pride of their hometown rivalry against another team. School administrators and coaches are no longer teachers and mentors of children but are the equivalent of those who are team owners and "real coaches" in professional football. Parents have become agents and sacrifice their jobs and homes so their children can play for the right team. Eventually the fans, the fans, lost the feeling that this is just a high school sport and changed the game to the level of a professional sport. I'm going to try and prove that for all these reasons Texas high school football has gotten out of control. It's no longer the game it was originally intended to be. High school football. Is it still just a relatively harmless school activity played among high school students or has the situation changed and the game has gotten out of control? In the state of Texas the situation has taken a turn for the worse. Coaches threaten to kill players and use physical force to punish them. Gaming is no longer simply a sport to entertain students as they pursue academic studies. 727 chartered for away games. Houses repainted in team colors. Parents who move so their children can attend the best "football" school. The game isn't what it used to be and in small towns across the state of Texas the Friday night ritual has changed... middle of the paper... the reasons are enough evidence to confidently say "High School" football in Texas is out of control." Works Cited1. Bissinger, H.G. Friday Night Lights: A City, a Team, and a Dream. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1990.2. Eitzen, Stanley D. Sports in Society contemporary New York, NY: Worth Publishers, 2001.3. “Without Permian, the Playoffs Have an Eerie Feeling.” high schools; Pursuing Photo." AP (2000): Sports News.5. Layden, Tim. "Friday Night Fever." Newsday (1993): 20.6. Buchanan, Olin. "The sign says it all, yes. At nearly every Texas high school, football game." AAS (1999):C1.7. Kurland, Bob. "Devil football coaches give new meaning to evil." TR (1990): D09.8. Pennington, Bill. "Sporting Education." TR (1990): D01