By the time I arrived at Coppell High School this morning to pick up tickets for Friday night’s game 
against Euless Trinity–about 7:30 a.m.–a line was already forming around the building. So it’s no surprise that by mid-afternoon, a friend (and fellow Coppellian) had to drive to the Trinity field house to snatch up some tickets of her own.
The high school football match-up has all the makings of a great game: Both teams are 13-0 and are playing for the Class 5A Division I Region I title. The only thing that stinks is the venue. Trinity won the coin toss and opted to play Friday night at Dragon Stadium in Southlake, which has a seating capacity of about 12,000. (Coppell had wanted a Saturday game at SMU.)
Even when CHS plays Southlake during the regular season, the stadium sells out. Trinity’s choice gives Coppell one less day to prepare, but it means a lot of fans–from both schools and of high school football in general–will be left out in the cold.
