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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
High School Football Finals: GHSA moves games to Georgia Dome
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Football finals time is here again but with a big difference this year — all the games will be played in Atlanta at the Georgia Dome.
What’s standard practice in most every other state — playing the championship games at one large, central site — remains a controversy in Georgia, which until now almost always has played the state finals on home fields. From 1994 to 2007, the Dome was the site of the semifinals, but never the championships.
But the championship games had become too big for many campus stadiums, according to GHSA executive director Ralph Swearngin. In 2006 and 2007, more tickets were sold than there were seats at home stadiums in every final, Swearngin said.
— Todd Holcomb
What’s your opinion on the GHSA moving all high school football finals to the Georgia Dome? Will you attend your school’s final or any of the games?
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