Buford High School's New $62 Million Football Stadium Is Insane and Why the South Will Always Own Football

I feel so bad for people from anywhere other than the southern United States. Every other country obviously pails in comparison, but even most of those from the great US of A don't have the privilege of knowing what it's like to live in the places most obviously ordained by God, where palatial football stadiums are built for local public high schools. This is how life is meant to be lived.

Metro Atlanta's Buford High School will now play its home football games at the brand-new Phillip Beard Stadium and this place is enough to make plenty of college teams jealous. A beautiful turf field, 10,000 seats, luxury suites, the whole deal. The first Friday under the lights at this place is going to hit like crack cocaine — from what I've heard.

And that first game is against Milton High School, the reigning Georgia 5A state champs and preseason No. 22 team in the country — Buford finished third in 6A last season and enters 2025 ranked No. 13 nationally. I'd imagine that game will be nationally televised. It will be awesome.

Obviously, my goal in life as a fan is to get enough money to have awesome Tennessee football tickets and ideally give the school just enough that someone has to listen to my thoughts on things. But short of that, having a luxury suite at one of the top high school programs in the country would be a pretty sick gig. You get to be part of the inner circle of a big-time football program without the cost of doing business in the college ranks. And I'd bet the inner political dealings are just as good, if not better.

This stadium rocks. I'm jittery typing this just thinking about how close we are to football being back. What a time to be alive.