My alma mater McKinley High School (aka Honolulu High School)
always played their "home" football games at our rival's campus Roosevelt High School.
This even though the school has renovated its field with new turf a few years back! The field is used for practices.
However, the bleachers and the night-lights needed to host football games weren't installed due to complaints by residents of nearby condos (buildings that weren't even there yet when I was a student at the school) who worry about the noise from the games.
learn more from
Denby Fawcett, “Mckinley Students Still Unable to Play Football On New $5m Field,” Honolulu Civil Beat, October 27, 2020
Here's a quote from a complainer
Residents of the nearby Moana Pacific, Pacifica Honolulu and 909 Kapiolani condominiums say if there are night games at McKinley, then besides glare from the lighting and noise, there also will be traffic jams, illegal parking and strangers walking through the neighborhood.
Look, I live near UH-Mānoa's lower campus which has Stan Sherriff Center, the home arena for the university's basketball and volleyball teams.
Being that UH-Mānoa is a state university, it will obviously have a larger fan base than a public high school!
I've been able to adjust to the dealing noise of fans going to & from the games at Stan Sherriff Center. Sometimes, I even join in and watch the games.
Strangers walking by your building after the games? I get WAY MORE STRANGERS walking by my apartment building after a UH game than will EVER pass by your condo after a high school game!
Because after all, a state university has a larger fan base than a high school!
If I could adjust to the noise & the craziness of UH fans leaving the arena, then the people living near McKinley High School (aka Honolulu High School) could easily adjust to the lesser amount of people at a high school game!
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And I love the school administration's response
Principal Okamura says nearby residents should be more realistic: “When you buy property close to a high school you should expect there are going to be changes and activities might be noisy.”
McKinley athletic director Bob Morikuni says, “There has to be some give and take here. It’s not like football games at McKinley will be year round and inconvenience everybody for the rest of their lives.”
I will also add that living near Stan Sherrif Center, that arena hosts basketball & volleyball games for both genders, means that it hosts WAY WAY WAY MORE games than a stadium that hosting a football game!
And the UH games has WAY WAY WAY MORE fans than a high school game!
So those whining losers in the condos near the high school campus need to suck it up and learn to embrace it all!
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* on an unrelated note, being that the high school is named after a controversial figure, I will from now on, on my blog posts, refer to my alma mater as McKinley High School (aka Honolulu High School) to emphasize that the school should revert to the original name of Honolulu High School.
Learn more at https://pablowegesend.blogspot.com/2018/05/put-tiger-statue-on-oval.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urMaL-gWuhc
