The one thing about Homecming they never seem to put on tv is the people coming home for the weekend, which makes things make a lot more sense.
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Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
I worked concessions under the grandstand during homecoming.
Me too. We always lost. Because we sucked. I was the only one at our tiny school who didn't give a damn.
The one thing about Homecming they never seem to put on tv is the people coming home for the weekend, which makes things make a lot more sense.
What people coming home? I am not familiar with that part. I thought it was just a particularly designated home game after being away for a stretch and an excuse for a dance. Though we were generally much more about the dances than the games (which we always lost, I think we won 3 games in my four years) at my high school.
I thought alumni were supposed to come back and visit for Homecoming zweekend. Like, have reunions and stuff.
Sometimes homecoming is scheduled around Thanksgiving, because people will be coming back. But otherwise, that's what it's supposed to be -- an alumni event with a football game and usually a dance.
I am pretty sure at our school Alumni even came to the dance.
Ah, I see. We didn't have much in the way of alumni involvement and what reunions I've heard of seem to happen in the summertime.
Yeah, I never knew Homecoming was supposed to involve alumni. Then again, I'm not 100% sure my school even did Homecoming. I guess we probably did -- football was a pretty big deal at my school -- but I can't remember ever hearing about it, let alone thinking about going. So not my thing.
Graduating from a Big Ten school meant Homecoming was always also reunion weekend. Even for the film majors.
I think at the university level it still is often alumni centerered, but for most high schools it's morphed into a more generic football game + dance thing.